And as soon as Moose gets up he'll respond that Vista is just fine. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I think you can still buy a Dell machine with XP although you may have
> to go through the business side rather than the home user side. What I
> did was buy refurb machines on the business side and selected only from
> those with XP (most of them)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Sue Pearce wrote:
>> The HP department that sells commputers to businesses over the phone offers
>> laptops with XP. My wife buys them by the case with no problems.
>>
>> Bill Pearce
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <GMcGrath@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:01 AM
>> Subject: [OM] OT -- computer questions
>>
>>
>>> 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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