Re: How workable is Vista?

rickman wrote:
On Jun 20, 4:04 pm, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
rickman wrote:
On Jun 20, 12:39 pm, Joerg <notthisjoerg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
That's why I love DOS. Pretty much all of the DOS routines from the late
80's I still need run flawlessly on NT4, Win2k and XP. I've heard they
won't on Vista but that wouldn't matter because that's off limits in
this office anyhow. Ok, there is the occasional Borland compiler bug
(runtime error) but that is quite easily fixed.
If Vista is "off-limits" in your office, how do you buy new
hardware? It is pretty hard to buy a new laptop with anything other
than Vista now that Dell has quit selling XP. I can build my own
desktop and run any OS I want, but I can't do much about a laptop.
Easy: Go to the next PC wrench shop. They'll build whatever you like. Or
order the pieces including something like this:http://store.purplus.net/miwixpprwofa.html

Heck, if you'd like to go totally retro and rock-bottom cost:http://chicagocomputersupply.com/c78-00002.html
IIUC it's for 20 clients so that would come to about $17 per seat. Can't
beat that I guess.

I could imagine Dell losing quite a bit of revenue, starting yesterday.
$50 more for the "privilege' of not wanting Vista can push very savvy
buyers over to the local markets. Of which there are plenty.

Old American saying: If you don't listen to what your customers want,
someone else will.

I don't get what you are saying. Who builds laptops to order??? I
know I can build a desktop and put any OS on it I want. But laptops
almost always come with an MS OS and now that will be Vista. I think
Dell has a few laptops with Linux, but they don't seem to be any
cheaper and in fact are their higher priced machines. Who else sells
good laptops with no OS, but *with* drivers for other OSs?


The little shop where we bought most of the PCs and laptops did. You went there, they poured you a coffee and then you'd sit down with the tech guru and piece together the machine. He used to know which drivers were available in which OS and which ones weren't.

Dell always gave me options. Now Linux won't work for me because I need to run EE software. But I usually opted for the oldest Windows they could fit onto the machine, for example Win2k after XP came out. No problem. However, that was always through their business sales, no idea how it is in the consumer section.

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