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  1. Its usually the headine figures that sell laptops though. . . RAM, hard drive capacity, screen size and price. Apples basic laptops don't have an advantage in any of theese, even though they are likely to be the better machine as a whole.
  2. Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

    Its usually the headine figures that sell laptops though. . . RAM, hard drive capacity, screen size and price. Apples basic laptops don't have an advantage in any of theese, even though they are likely to be the better machine as a whole.


    Apple's machines are generally nice-build, but if you want to expand it or tweak it, what is there to expand or add, internally? RAM, hard drive, video card? You can't upgrade your motherboard, swap out the CPU or upgrade your power supply to accomodate the higher requirements of a video card, if I wanted to.

    CPU speed no longer sells a laptop by itself, as it did when 98 and XP were first on the market - and the most-adopted operating systems in the world. It has to be complimented by at least one or all of those figures. I'd personally be looking for power supply rating in that features list as well as graphics performance.

    Look at these little netbooks coming through. A decent configuration (1.6GHz AMD / Intel, 1GB RAM, 160GB SSD, 10'' screen), but nobody will touch them, and you're told the reason is because Linux is there, and Linux is useless to most, as is the thing at the moment. Most of those people jump on the media bandwagon and listen to hopeless salespeople about it. I would bet your bottom dollar that 80% of those have never been exposed to Ubuntu or Linux or any of the other various distros around, in any way they'd recognise. We're all exposed to it every day through various means - Unix is on bank teller machines, your fax machine, your modem...you name it.

    Now if Foobar was available natively for Linux, I would jump straight to it. It has everything I want: Amarok, Firefox, OpenOffice, MythTV - that's all that's keeping me from changing from Windows. But because it's not open-source, it would have a harder time getting prominence.

    I am thinking of a netbook, as I'm liking how they've come about in the last year, but I haven't seen one I've been overly impressed with.
  5. Vista isn't too bad in fairness, I mean I've got used to it now. Quick question though regarding browsers - I've started using Firefox after I finally lost it with IE7, but is it me or does it not like YouTube very much?
  6. Originally posted by WojBhoy:Vista isn't too bad in fairness, I mean I've got used to it now. Quick question though regarding browsers - I've started using Firefox after I finally lost it with IE7, but is it me or does it not like YouTube very much?


    I too love Vista

    I'm running Firefox too, and I haven't any problems with YouTube..... what kind of problems?
  7. Originally posted by MWSAH:[..]

    Vista looks nice too, but is a hard pain in the ass...Glad I still have XP on my laptop. I prefer performance above graphics in this matter.


    I think that Vista is a lot easier to use than XP. Vista has inferior performance to XP? How so?

    (Forgive my probably simple questions)
  8. Originally posted by U2Nick:[..]

    I think that Vista is a lot easier to use than XP. Vista has inferior performance to XP? How so?

    (Forgive my probably simple questions)


    Easier to use? It had a lot of bugs, flaws etc. I just love XP...sense and simplicity (although it's not Philips) To each their own though.
  9. Originally posted by MWSAH:[..]

    Easier to use? It had a lot of bugs, flaws etc. I just love XP...sense and simplicity (although it's not Philips) To each their own though.


    Yes, everything from the search function to the way the file windows are set up (the side panels) makes it a lot faster for me to do anything on my desktop (with Vista) compared to my laptop (with XP)....... Your right, each to their own
  10. I've not really found much difference between XP and Vista, but I guess, judging by how long I stuck with IE7, maybe I'm easily pleased lol.
  11. Vista is much better than I thought it would be. It looks nicer as well.


  12. I quite like it. Things seem to not crash as much, hardware seems to be pretty much compatible with 99.9% of drivers and it looks modern, and integrates with loads of devices like the 360. Everything is a lot easier to find and in logical English, not typical Winglish. There's so many little improvements which make Vista a bit better to use, and you can't not be impressed by them. Yet, there's some things which make me wonder why MS didn't bother to fix those, but a decent update overall.

    Windows 7 Beta 1 is coming out January 9, so that should mean Win7 will almost be ready just after September this year. It looks very nice, but I sure hope the interface they're showing off is not the final one - it needs to be something totally different and new.

    Winsupersite.com seems to have some great stuff about Windows 7 and the original Vista concept. Lyndon would probably know what Longhorn is, or not...
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