I've been itching to buy a laptop smaller than my 15.4" Dell for travel.
This would be mostly personal use, emailing, downloading pics from memory
cards, etc. I was initially interested in netbooks, until a helpful salesman
at Office Depot told me that most of their customers who bought netbooks had
not been satisfied because of limitations of the form factor.
Now I'm considering a 12" HP that the salesman recommended. My biggest
question is about the OS. I've stayed with various version of XP on all my
computers. XP MCE on my desktop and laptop at home and XP Pro on the desktops
at my office. I just haven't had the need to switch to Vista and wanted to
stay with an OS I know and am comfortable with. I know Win 7 is just around
the corner, and Office Depot is offering a free upgrade to Win 7 on
computers that are bought now.
My biggest question is whether the 64-bit Vista Home Premium that is on the
HP will run all the software I'm used to using. Photoshop Elements would
be the biggie. I seem to recall reading in the past that some 32-bit apps
won't run on 64-bit Vista. Am I correct?
Thanks!
Greg
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