![]() maybe my desktop machine with more ram spoiled me, but XP just doesn’t run nicely with only 256 Mb of ram. My laptop doesn’t run XP as fast as I’d like, nevermind Vista. I would have gotten a ram upgrade, but I’ve since lost my job and decided not to get another one until I finished school. I second that, I worked all summer to get a Laptop and the most I could afford after that only had 256 Mb of ram because over here the things are still expensive. You still see cheap laptops with 256M RAM and upgrading them is often relatively expensive.” “A lot of the hardware sold with XP-home today have less powerful specs. I know YMMV, and maybe these guy’s just got lucky, but problems like you describe don’t seem characteristic of the Dell machines I’ve seen. I’ve really seen nothing wrong with their Dell machines except that since they can’t buy them locally here they have to send them out to get them fixed if hardware fails under warranty which hasn’t happened yet). ![]() They do have a good sysadmin out at the organization, but not in their homes (so they do get trouble with malware). It’s now been a little over a year since they bought their new Dell boxes, and so far the machines are still performing as is expected of them. I don’t know what your bad experience with Dell was, because obviously I’m not seeing it with these machines used by the missionary organization. They have gotten reliable behaviour out of the machines, so much so that they’ve bought some to bring into their own homes and even there the machines perform well. Obviously as a missionary organization they are strapped for cash, so while they might not be buying the lowest end machines from Dell, they are still constrained to the low end of the price range (probably about CAD $500 – 600 per machine). There might be a user support community to produce security patches – just like the XP patch that was recently released – not by MS mind you.įWIW there is a missionary ogranization up here that buy’s Dells, and they’ve built up a fairly solid network around all their machines and Novell Netware. People will leave their machines as they currently are until they crap out and have to buy another one. Will they switch to mac? – Well – with Intel Macs coming out in June (and the mini being slated as one of the first models to come out) – people *might* switch – after all they already havea monitor, KB/Mouse, and running their windows software might be an option in the near future with little/no performance hit – but again there will only be a small amount of switchers to the mac – just as in the linux case. WIll they switch to linux? Some people who are inclined to switch now, might get that little extra push – the majority I don’t think will. People will think – why should I buy XP Pro? To the end user those two versions seem identical! Last I saw – Vista had some pretty hefty requirements – how would it run on a (insert unkind word) $300 dell, eMachine, other PC computer that runs XP Home now? – People will be surprised when they buy Vista and are surprised by the speed (slowness)
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