Which computer

[RocketRev]

Originally Posted by TLG

Should i be getting excited?

Hmmm..... how long can I keep you excited for?

Originally Posted by RocketRev

Hmmm..... how long can I keep you excited for?

sorry excitment waned within a picosecond of
posting.

[dogsbody]

ok, I recently was looking around for a new machine, and ended up getting one built for me, £229 got me the case, a decent motherboard 2gb ram dual core(decent speed) processor, dvd drive and a few other bits, plus on top of that the operating system etc (ok girlfriends son for some reason has a multi user licesne so got it under that but equivalent machine on the shelf would have been nearly double the price. def worth considering

[rickws]

resurrecting this thread for a couple of quick questions.

Does it matter if an operating system is Windows Vista or Windows 7?

Is there much difference between an Intel core 2 duo processor and the Pentium dual core? They sound like the same thing to me. Surely I just go for the highest number processor and am not bothered about quad core as I really won't be doing more than one thing at once.

Dont touch vista, everything else your doing is fine.

[greli]

Originally Posted by TLG

Dont touch vista, everything else your doing is fine.

lol vista isnt that bad

[rickws]

Oh no, conflicting opinions. It's just I'm finding some decent spec comuters at under £300 but they have vista as an operating system.

[RocketRev]

I've been running Vista since it was launched - no problems. It's fine. Mind you, it's worth remembering that it intentionally broke with the past.... which means some things just aren't compatible with it. Windows 7 probably won't suffer the criticisms that Vista did simply because that link with the past has already been broken and Vista's already carried the can for that.

[»The Big Firework Shop]

Dont touch Vista with a barge pole. Since it came out, its become my no 1 problem. XP isnt perfect but Vista is a nightmare for unrecoverable crashes!

Vista was a flop from the start it may have cut ties for the better, but it is slow and a system hogger XP has been the best version for a while now, although it suffered at the begining.
M$ has realised that vista is not welcome and ushered in windows 7 very quickly compared to other operating system releases.
Xp is so good it is available in windows 7 as a virtual console, while windows 7 may not yet be as good as needed it will become the best platform within a few more months as everything gets ironed out, however XP is still the best M$ just wants more money on what could have been updates.
If you can get XP get it and just get the home version the xp pro version only offers a few tweaks for high end users and is nigh on the same package unless you are one of the high end users, ie an IT specialist.

While some may say that they have differing opinions on this, i will not argue with them as they may have specific uses for themselves, but XP has been refined over the years and 7 will become the new XP.

Yeah that was confusing.