At 11:41 AM 7/13/2008, you wrote: >That depends on you (and the machine). There's nothing "wrong" with Vista >per se, it's a good OS, but it's biggest crime is just being underwhelming >for a 5-year effort. It can be frustrating at times to find where MS has >moved functionality, but as with any new design, you get used to it over >time. Some of the changes make sense, others, not so much. > >You mention it's an econobox. Does it have enough muscle to run Vista at an >acceptable level? Running it on less than 2 GB of RAM is no fun.
the box has this stuff inside.: * AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core Desktop Processor * 3GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory * 500GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive * 16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner * ATI Radeon X1250 Integrated Graphics * AC'97 Audio * Gigabit Ethernet * Eight USB 2.0, One FireWire, 9-in-1 Card Reader * Vista Home Premium, MS Works I'm really glad it comes with a big hard drive.. i have collected 30 gig of stuff in my hd since cp/m. should be big enough for an elderly web surfer, right? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************