I'd say it's the performance of the hardware that makes your sons new HP laptop run vista well (rather than the quality). Vista is so bloated and slow that it requires all of the resources of the fastest new computers to just perform basic tasks like web browsing. A truly excellent operating system (OpenBSD is a good example) uses a miniscule portion of system resources to just run, leaving the rest of your system free to do the tasks you assign it to. I can run the latest version of OpenBSD on my Sun SparcStation LX made in the late 80s. It has only 24mb of ram, a 200mb hard drive, and a (50? mhz) slow cpu. It runs fast enough to serve a modern web page to multiple users, and route a 1 megabit internet connection to multiple computers at the same time. Imagine how much resources it must leave free for further use on a new computer that literally has over 200 times the system resources available!
Sincerely, Tyler William H Backman 1987 190D Turbo Biodiesel On Aug 20, 2008, at 9:57 AM, R A Bennell wrote: > I think that one of the issues may be the quality of the hardware. > My elder son is using a new HP laptop with Vista > and he likes it fine. We were a bit concerned when we got it and > wondered if we ought to just reload XP but he > decided to try it and says it has worked fine for the past 3 mnths > or so. > > Randy > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
