oh yeah...but I was speaking of top end units, obviously. I did see a
powerful HP desktop in sam's the other day with vista ultimate, 600 GB,
2 GB ram, a wad of other stuff, for $1800.
Gary VanderMolen wrote:
$5000+ system?
Heck, I have a $899 HP laptop on which Vista really flies!
It has the Core 2 Duo T5200 processor with 1 GB RAM.
Gary VanderMolen
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No, i think the reason is much more sinister than that, Thane. MS just
wants to control the "mind space" of people for another five years. They
can't do that with just a simple update to XP. They need something that
looks and feels different, so that people can have something to spend
time and energy tweaking and talking about (loving and/or hating). All
of the mags and websites will starting writing about it, Vista will sell
more hardware (hell, systems are now back up to $5000+ after being dirt
cheap for sometime), and the industry will move. Motion is more
important than the direction, in terms of staying alive. This is what
the entire industry wants from MS as its leader. Hence, MS is
delivering. We can either follow or jump ship. :)
