MS just announced Australian pricing for Vista "Ultimate" A mere AU$751
(US$564) ...ouch!
Well, I wonder if support in Dell USA is different than Dell Canada.
The techs that come out are not Dell techs. They're 3rd party (used to
be Unisys and Wang - dunno who they are now) who would come out and swap
parts on site. They were always very good, but of course that's just my
experienc
At 02:48 PM 09/10/2006, Ben Ruset wrote:
You're in Canadaland right?
Yupper. And not in Toronto. :) Of course, Dell's concept of
geography is so weak, they can't comprehend that.
T
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At 07:42 PM 08/10/2006, Winterlight wrote:
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
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No tax collector will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Saint Peter was a Roman tax collector
Paul was a tax collector. Peter was a fisherman.
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ber 09, 2006 10:52 AM
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>>At 07:42 PM 08/10/2006, Winterlight wrote:
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>>>>Tallyho ! ]:8)
>>>>Taglines below !
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>>>>No tax collector will ever enter the
Don't forget Mary, then you'd have Puff the Magic Dragon :)
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From: "Veech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 11:02:02
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and Peter Paul was a candy bar.
*sorry*
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At 07:42 PM 08/
At 07:42 PM 08/10/2006, Winterlight wrote:
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
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No tax collector will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Saint Peter was a Roman tax collector
Paul was a tax collector. Peter was a fisherman.
T
You're in Canadaland right?
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 09:40 AM 08/10/2006, Ben Ruset wrote:
2. I could buy a Dell with the 3 year service plan, if Dell really
sends a technician to your home for the duration of those 3 years.
Yes, they do.
Not if you live in the wrong place. They *say* t
At 09:40 AM 08/10/2006, Ben Ruset wrote:
2. I could buy a Dell with the 3 year service plan, if Dell really
sends a technician to your home for the duration of those 3 years.
Yes, they do.
Not if you live in the wrong place. They *say* they do, but then
don't. I have plenty of customers in
Tallyho ! ]:8)
Taglines below !
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No tax collector will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Saint Peter was a Roman tax collector
actually Duocor Standby Disk does a good job of making fully boot able backups
but it is still in beta and I am begging them not to loose the explorer
function which has been removed ( ability to backup/restore individual files )
They currently are having trouble getting bootable x64 but x86 wor
It is still in beta.
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I will say this: right now acronis is the only one remotely on the right
path with vist
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if anything Vista is slower, needs at least 1gig ram etc. The first
08 Oct 2006 06:07:48
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if anything Vista is slower, needs at least 1gig ram etc. The first build I put
in was a real dog and it came back out the same day. FWIW I am running it on a
AMD 2400 and did bump the
if anything Vista is slower, needs at least 1gig ram etc. The first build I put
in was a real dog and it came back out the same day. FWIW I am running it on a
AMD 2400 and did bump the ram to 1 gig on a WD SATA 250gb drive. All of my
systems are behind the power curve, <:-|
successive builds ha
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Are they still selling those Linspi
2. I could buy a Dell with the 3 year service plan, if Dell really sends
a technician to your home for the duration of those 3 years.
Yes, they do.
For any who want reasons for my decisions, the customers made my choice.
They are overwhelmingly going to the $300.00 Wal*Mart specials!
Are the
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Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Is Vista going to be that much better than XP Pro?
No offense dude, bu
Veech wrote:
I guess what I'm asking is, is Vista going to demonstrate a big improvement in
performance over XP Pro?
Looks like not yet, see:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2850
No offense dude, but get real it'll be 2 years or more before Vista
makes a serious dent in XP (Jan., 2007 debut figure 2009 before most
games are released for it ). By that time you and I will have to upgrade
@ least once just to keep up with software bloat so your soon to come PC
is already o
For a while stick with pro jmho.
CW
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Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 16:22:33
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Subject: [H] Is Vista going to be that much better than XP Pro?
W
When I get this upgrade put together in a month or two, should I get Vista
or stick with XP Pro? I plan on getting a Core 2 Duo based system. Used
mostly for audio processing and gaming. XP Pro has worked fine for me so
far, I don't want a bloated OS with a bunch of unnecessary garbage,
acti
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