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ORIGINAL: ThatDaveGuy69

ShaharThorne:

I get this question a lot: Which computer should I buy? The only 2 brands I recommend are HP & Dell. And not the crap sold in the big box store, either. Get yourself the business version, direct from the manufacturer, the ones that come with a 3yr warranty. Dealing direct allows you to "downgrade" to XP Pro but also ask about the upgrade path to Win 7. If your budget allows, be sure to get a 64-bit CPU and 4 or more GB RAM. Win 7 ROCKS, despite what a few people here to say. I've been running the Beta and the RC for months in a virtual environment and it works.

I've been a professional computer geek for over 25 years and have yet to be dissappointed by either Dell or HP.

~Dave

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ORIGINAL: FullCircle

Windows 7 will contain not just one recycling bin but five bins each colour coded for all the various types of file they can take. We all know for example that gifs are old file types and harder to recycle than the newer jpgs which were created with sustainability in mind.

Other than that Windows 7 will be exactly like Windows Vista (oh and your media player will go even slower due to another extra layer of security for the artists benefit not yours.)

Your identity will be stored under the Microsoft number system which nobody without a PhD can fathom.

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ORIGINAL: TurboJugend


lol..perhaps you should try to update your pc once in the 20 years   [:D]

with a quad core and 8 gig and 2 graphic cards..it runs pretty smooth :P

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ORIGINAL: Rainfire

[:)]

Maybe Compaq got better then because when I worked in dispatch at a local power and gas company in California, main dispatch all had Compaqs that were continually going down. The running joke got to be that they should just put the guy on salary - it would be cheaper. And I had a couple of friends that had Compaqs that seemed to run a lot of problems. Companies change over time, some improve, some get worse. Though I haven't heard anything but good about the E500 line. Plus, maybe there's a difference with you being in the UK, I know some companies change things between there and here.

It's good to know there are good ones out there.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

So, I have been informed Microshaft is offering a free download of the new  OS free to Vistaster users, does anyone know anything about this ?

The new OS is vaunted to be everything Vistaster is not, being lighter and faster and using less memory, what Vistaster should have been, but was not, is this offer a means of apology to all those that once believed in Microshaft, are they trying to draw their custom back, or is this new OS  all it's cracked up to be ?

I discovered why my machine on Vistaster home basic is eratic, it is the chipset which is at fault, it being only capable of running Vistaster, but not at it's best. An early generation Vista designed machine, the latest I understand to be fairly trouble free, but then they have a more capable chipset.

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ORIGINAL: blacksword404
Damn Pc snob. With your fancy hacker quality pc. Leave us mortals alone.[;)]
2 graphics cards? Who does he think he is?

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Vista would not run my AMD dual core 64 bit as a 64 bit chip

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ORIGINAL: TurboJugend

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ORIGINAL: blacksword404
Damn Pc snob. With your fancy hacker quality pc. Leave us mortals alone.[;)]
2 graphics cards? Who does he think he is?

If you suck at many things...you need to find something you can be good at...pc's :P

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Vista would not run my AMD dual core 64 bit as a 64 bit chip

that is weird...it is how I started with vista.