On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Paul McNett<[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm going to have to test my app against Vista, too. I have several > users using it on Vista already with no reported problems, but at some > point I'm going to want to see what it looks like. At that point I'll > just purchase Vista and install it on my MacBook as a VMWare or > Parallels virtual machine, alongside Windows XP and Ubuntu. >
We had a batch of operators at one site "upgrade" and reported problems with titlebars disappearing and controls bleeding through tabs, as I've discussed on a separate thread. I wasn't convinced that 2 and 3 year-old ThinkPads had the horsepower (specifically, the graphics card memory) to be able to run Vista in its full bloated GUI glory. The Lenovo outlet had a wicked deal (50% off a refurbished laptop manufactured in June 2009), a machine with Vista Business pre-installed as well as a number of other features we wanted to check out. Time is money, and saving the time of install and configure and trying to determine if the problem was us or them or the graphics configs... bah. Dying to see how it runs Ubuntu :) ... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
