New laptop with XP???

[Steve]

Check out Ubuntu. From the web site: "Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more." http://www.ubuntu.com/ .

Excellent suggestion...

...if you want to spend hours and hours finding drivers to make things work.

 

[Steve]

Windows 7 is good gear. I have the release candidate 64 bit on this machine I am working on now. Several issues being;

1. It installed very easily and in a straightforward way, recognising most of the hardware - and this only needed to be done once,
2. It is completely stable - no crashing, nothing exiting
3. It is fast. For the first time ever Microsoft has lived up to the 'faster than... insert X last version here'
4. Nothing has gone wrong

This is very strange ...

Suppose I'd better get my early RTM copy downloaded then....

 

[cookie]

I don't care whether it is or not

It'll always remain light years behind Mac OS






Thought I'd get that in before Cookie

if i absolutely had to get a windows pc right now, i'd be looking at windows 7. XP is somewhat dated & programs are going to be made for 7 in future, i'd have thought. it has a much vaunted "XP Compatibility Mode" built in (in some versions anyway).

having said that, i have just installed a stripped down nLite version of XP on my iMac (just to run mapsource really)

 

[Rushy]

I don't care whether it is or not

It'll always remain light years behind Mac OS






Thought I'd get that in before Cookie

I'm so fecked off with my 2.5 yr old laptop running slower than a bastard thing and then last weekend I powered up my 10 yrd old bog standard, basic as you like iMAC, for the first time in 3 yrs. It booted up immediately and within seconds I was listening to my old itunes library, I remembered how much I just loved the 'feel' of it .

Unfortunately its not Wifi so can't connect to my router which is downstairs.

 

[Sergeant Pluck]

I've been using 7 as well. It's very good actually, good on laptops too. Fast, stable ( so far ) and fairly transparent. Although to be fair, M$ would have done well to make it worse than Vista.

Pluck