Yes it can On 11/16/07, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been looking at turning over my laptop for a new one soon ... > > .. but due to a couple of key Adobe applications that are Windows only > and don't seem to work on an Intel Mac, I may have to say goodbye to > OS X. Shame. > > Sure Windows XP is still available but to be honest, for future > proofing, it probably makes more sense to get a laptop with Vista. > > the trouble is, everytime someone shows me Vista's swish UI and > desktop, I just want to vomit! > > I'm not at all interested in swooshy interfaces. A decent file > manager, drag and drop and plug'n'pray is all I really need to cut > code and get stuff happening. > > For all you vista users, can the over-the-top Vista "chrome" be turned > off so it's just a plane-jane O/S? The first thing I do with a WinXP > install it to turn it into Windows "Classic". I don't mean I want to > be using one of the cripple-ware stripped down versions of Vista, just > that I can't see the point in having some fancy piece of rubbish > hogging resources. > > if it wasn't for the "Windows problem", I'd probably just use FreeBSD and > KDE... > > thoughts? > thanx > > > >
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