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cougar=GCHQ=
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Post subject: NEW LAPTOP.... VISTA OR XP?????  Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:14 pm |
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http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/product/seo/157391
The link shows the laptop i was thinking of getting....
I'm looking to spend around £1200. If you have seen anything better then can you let me know.
Also, do you advise me to stay with XP due to running DC.
All your help and suggestions would be great on these few issues.
Thanks
Mark.
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:19 pm |
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| In youz forumz bein youz Pepsiz |
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XP i'd say, I jus got vista and the compatability issues rele get on me boobehs
and on a laptop your gonna want the most efficient one for gaming, XP is that
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:34 pm |
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yeah Vista is well capable of taking up 1 gb of memory... just for the operating system...
In my opinion a OS is supposed to make a computer run smoother... not take up all its resources 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:11 pm |
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XP!! Pro
Vista has still got its problems me thinks
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:09 pm |
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thankyou for the input so far.....
Most of the factory lappy's in PC world have Vista already on them. I wonder if they could do XP Pro?
I looked at alienware but its pricey...like £1800
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:14 pm |
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XP Pro 
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:16 pm |
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Dual boot... partion it, keep vista on one partition and get some XP on another
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:46 pm |
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Looks schweet. If its got Vista already, may thats a good thing, possibly the drivers issues have been sorted for that model, who knows. Would they sell hardware with incompatible software?
/ducks for cover.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:53 pm |
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do not go for vista, i've had no end of trouble with vista, crahes, combatibility etc, plus a lot of friends that had the issue with their laptops been locked out by mirosoft thinking they were pireted versions when they were pre-installed compaq and dell .
I just wiped vista of my laptop(t came with it) and put xp on, its so much faster and runs without any issues
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:56 pm |
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Get Vista, create a ghost image of the drive on an external hard drive. Then format and install XP on it. You can always add Vista back later then.
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Post subject: oooo Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:25 pm |
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all you naughty vista bashers - chadk will be along shortly to tell you waht for
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Post subject: I have a new laptop! Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:05 pm |
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Thankyou all for your advice.
This is what i've bought...
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho ... 98417.html
I got this for £1499. Should help me along, and I'm looking forward to the big screen!
The next task is to make a recovery disk.... and then get XP Pro onto it!....all new to me! _________________
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:49 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:39 am |
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MrNiceGuy=GCHQ= wrote: pretty flash.... but you cudda bought a supreme gaming machine with the dosh.... Water Cooling screws with the landing gear 
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:00 am |
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water cooled landing gear lol.
Its amazing now, I have noticed that buying a laptop these days is all about making money after sales, as it is with most things. I only get microsoft office for so many days then i have to pay for it. that goes for most of the stuff on the laptop.
anyways , moan over. I best go and buy a disk so that i can make a recovery disk. Then i'll need some help in wiping this vista off my machine.
Do you think its worth trying dc with vista first before i wipe it?
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