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Windows Vista-revisited

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96SC:
All:

Several weeks/months ago a thread was going around about Vista.  Most of the comments weren't very complimentary.

We are in the market for a laptop for our son but every one we see has Vista installed.  What is you opinion of Vista now?  Can you get a new laptop with XP?  If you get a computer with Vista how easy is it to change it to an XP?  Should you convert it to XP? 

Thanks for any info you can give me.  

Jim

wmccall:
There are some still selling with XP, but they are probably not major brands.  HP and Dell have bowed down to the all mighty Microsoft. My company is buying Dell laptops with Vista and reimaging with XP.   If you stick with Vista, get 2gb of memory, it helps.  Vista will probably be ok for college and will get better.    You can always go back to Visa later.  Microsoft just gave me a free copy of Vista Ultimate and it is better than when I first looked at it.

countryboy:
I've had a dell with 2gig memory and Vista for 4 months now, not a single problem with vista at all. I'm wondering if most of the problems with vista are when people upgrade from XP and not with a new machine, just a thought.

Brewman:
You might have a point.  My dell desktop PC came from the factory with Vista, and no problems at all.  I had to download a couple drivers for my printers, not a big deal, and everything works fine.  

  But those who are trying to upgrade an XP machine to Vista may have challenges.  But I remember that the transition to XP from whatever preceed it wasn't exactly a walk in the park.  From what I've read so far, that was a tougher transition than XP to Vista is.  But people forget stuff over time.

96SC:
I seem to remember either reading, hearing, dreaming that if you had a MS Word document with XP you couldn't load it into Vista or some such thing.  Since all of sons current Word documents are XP I would hate to make him re-type them to fit the Vista programming.  Is this true or was it all a dream? :-/

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