mkargo

Never mind choosing between XP or Vista, do yourself a favour and bung Linux on it!

cranston

Unless you like Itunes, or video editing, or accounting software, or photoshop, or using a all-in-one scanner etc etc.

Sorry its a windows world!

iainandsam

Thanks for all the useful info, i currently have XP on my desktop at home whats vista, in know i'm probably way behind here!!!

mkargo

There are equivalents: iTunes runs under wine, video editing can be done with LiVES, accounting software I'm not sure about as I don't use any, but I use the Gimp instead of photoshop (it can drive a scanner, too). The options are a lot better these days than they used to be.

MarkMC

I wouldnt worry too much about the warranty, I bought a Sony in January from Tesco. I had a problam with the hard drive...bad sectors or something. The guy on the phone said if we "decide" you caused the fault there is a £180 admin charge, plus the charge for the new drive/fitting/reinstallation of Vista.... Probably mounting to as much as the lap top cost in the 1st place. Anyhow, new hard drive £50 and 20 mins of my time with a screwdriver.

MarkMC

Do you have tunes working with Wine? I tried it briefely in Feb but with no luck. What Linux and what versions of the software?

Cheers

mkargo

Not personally, but a friend has it running on Ubuntu with a release of wine from a few months back.

lolylew

me & my daughter received our new dell laptops today & we luurve them, the webcam on them is great, i think intergrated is the way to go when your moving overseas, so much easier with video chatting and all that!

lisa

vickys

Well i totally prefer xp but use it with office 07 which i think is so much better than 2003. Don't like linux for compatability issues but i do think tech wise it's a much better opertating system. I also realise that Windows is what the world uses so that is what i'm sticking to for now!!

Johnsyweb

Thanks Hutch. We migrated to a new server at the tail end of last week and the data transfer didn't go too smoothly. Unfortunately a visit to the datacentre is needed and that being in London rules me out of the equation!

Hutch

Hehe - no worries - out of interest, do you do any freelance db work?

MarkMC

I do.......

stuckinblighty

I've just bought a toshiba lappy.Still not sure if its covered worldwide Suppose i'll find out that it isnt when it goes tits up in Aus


Lee

Hutch

PM me your details mate - and links to any pertinent sites.

EvannTel

One thing and its minor and of little relevance. Keyboards layouts in Aus are slightly different to UK ones. Still QWERTY but the shift and Alt keys are different.
Not a drama but takes some getting used when switching between the two!

I'd always wait and buy here - the range and price seems pretty much the same.

Also regarding the "windows" world. After using Windows since version 3.0 in 1991, I am now looking at Mac. Whatever next!