again, you have missed the point, whats a $100k car got to do with a $2k computer ??

i was originally replying to the post about mac osx, not windows vista, I thought this was an open forum..?

Uh oh, my pedantic side has emerged.

They were, by illustrating that Vista is not the only option.

If the question was "Is Vista better than OS X" then that would be a fair point. But it wasn't.

I have OS X and a 1996 Nissan Micra, BTW :P

You agreed with someone who recommended OSX as the alternative. Not very eloquently you said , "I agree" which means you agree the user should consider OSX as an alternative to upgrading from XP to Vista.

I refer you to my original reply as to why that is nonsense, and for you to "agree" to it is equally stupid.

As for mac zealots, you are all shooting yourselves in the foot. As I've said before, I like Macs, but, they are not worth the money.

Anyway, this is turning into a sad geeky debate about Mac v PC which I never get involved in, so EOM

JTL

yawn yawn . . .

thanks for your valued opinion.....

not much use if you want a laptop, or already have a half decent one though.

OOoh dear god, really ought to buy a pair of boxing gloves lol

Right don't really want to high jack the thread but would really like some advice???

This pc is really poop might have said before its never a problem for offline stuff but get online and you wait ages sometimes for it to bring up a page and normally in those circumstances it will then crash.
For example today we want to be able to do our Tesco shopping online as we really don't have the time to trail round the supermarket each week and I think when we go in we end up getting things we don't necessarily need then him indoors says 'look how much the bl**dy shopping is' when I start work soon we'll have even less time.
Got as far as clicking for tesco express and then thats it it sits there littlesquares whirring round til it crashes. It does this on some othersites too.
An is particularly annoying if it does it when i'm trying to sort my bank stuff out online.

So if for example I was to get a laptop would this work ok when we eventually get over to Oz, just wondering as someone was saying different countries go by different voltages?
Or is it same in Australia? Can you just switch plugs or use an adapter?
I have to admit I prefer to do alot of my shopping online and using this thing is a pain in the backside when it comes to doing that, it's so slow i've lost out on ebay cause the naffing thing has taken an eternity to change page or register my bid.
If it's not going to work in Oz i'll have to struggle on with this piece of crap cause i don't want to buy something i'll only be usingfor a few months.

It doesn't have to do my washing up or anything, I often need to multitask though so a system that could cope with that would be great, it'd be good to have some decent media capabilities as I love having my media player on if I get desperate I watch a dvd up here away from the kids. Often burn cd's etc.

Anyone who knows anything about computers???
I don't really know too much excepti'd like the computerto work.

Jen

You want to ask in the lab probably...for puter issues and all that..

but it's probably spyware and the like that's slowing you down, and a full cache, but there's plenty of threads already on how to tidy that up and see if that improves things.

anyway, your lappy would work over there, but need a new power cord for the adaptor, or a plug adaptor...your problem would probably come with the warranty though, moving abroad and all that, Dell might still cover it, but many wouldn't without extra cash, so probably wouldn't be any point in buying one till you moved, less to lug about as well.

Thanks Bob...
Will have a look

Jen

If bringing over a laptop then simply cut the UK plug off and put an Australian plug on it instead. Saves buying a new cable.

$158 for Vista seems pretty reasonable to me. Bought the upgrade one and is the first legit copy ever had. Works well, little bit of mucking around updating drivers etc, but its all good

My Mac Mini cost me $450?? And it took up less room when shipping. I could've put it in my suitcase if I wanted.
from a "Mac Zealot"

As a counterpoint to all the testosterone raging around this thread, here is some light relief...

S

sums it all up beautifully!!

What are the memory req's of Vista ?
Funny I can run my webserver,mailserver, DNS, VPN server and file server on a $20 486 I got from ebay running Linux.
What machine would I need to run the same on Vista

This at the very least...

S