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[GeneW]

Originally Posted by Malaya1221

:..window vista will suffice for the os...

Vista - where do you want to go today, besides insane?

Gene

[CompanyXPaladin]

Originally Posted by GeneW

Vista - where do you want to go today, besides insane?

Gene

Thats hardly true.. providing you have enough resources to whore out to it.

sonicelectronix.com has pretty decent deals on Apple laptops...

If you absolutely must get a PC, checkout Newegg.com for deals. I've had pretty good luck with HP, MSI, and Toshiba laptops.

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by CompanyXPaladin

Thats hardly true.. providing you have enough resources to whore out to it.

sonicelectronix.com has pretty decent deals on Apple laptops...

If you absolutely must get a PC, checkout Newegg.com for deals. I've had pretty good luck with HP, MSI, and Toshiba laptops.

I've heard about Vista SP1 and how it makes things go well. I use it at work on some systems. I'm not convinced that it will play nice with some of the older programs that I use here - and lack source code to port to Vista.

Gene

[CompanyXPaladin]

Originally Posted by GeneW

I've heard about Vista SP1 and how it makes things go well. I use it at work on some systems. I'm not convinced that it will play nice with some of the older programs that I use here - and lack source code to port to Vista.

Gene

Vista is still a resource whore - good luck trying to do anything at any speed with less than 2GB of RAM. SP1 definitely helped, but running (for example) Ubuntu and Vista, or even XP and Vista on the same system, its obvious how much Vista by itself uses. As for your programs, backwards compatibility is always an issue, but its worth trying the program in compatibility mode.

Sorry for the threadjack, OP!