Miscellaneous laptop discussions : Best Laptop to delete Vista and go back to XP?
Best Laptop to delete Vista and go back to XP?
by willie61 - 10/29/07 9:20 PMTrying to get my current machine to go back to XP from Vista is becomming a pain (Toshiba L35) because I can't find any drivers to work with the new machine. Which laptop is best to go back to XP with?
There isn't one.
by orlbuckeye - 10/30/07 5:23 AM In reply to: Best Laptop to delete Vista and go back to XP? by willie61XP and Vista are software and made by Microsoft. Drivers support hardware made by other vendors (ATI, nVidia, Realtek, Seagate & Maxtor to name a few).
Why not just get it with XP?
by R. Proffitt
- 10/30/07 6:30 AM
In reply to: Best Laptop to delete Vista and go back to XP? by willie61
Dell and others are not ready to sacrifice their business laptop sales on the Vista alter quite yet.
Bob
Why not spend a little more?
by fbbbb - 10/31/07 4:31 AM In reply to: Best Laptop to delete Vista and go back to XP? by willie61Some part of what's hurting Vista has got to be shipping it with dirt-cheap machines which plainly can't hack it.
It's not a money issue ...really
by willie61 - 10/31/07 2:38 PM In reply to: Why not spend a little more? by fbbbbMost gamers and network admin's are staying with XP since its been around for awhile and most apps work with it. You can't say that for Vista. Many of my old games / apps don't work; no matter what I do . Another basic issue is a new OS. THis is alwaays a problem since the extra performance of new hardware is not used to improve apps , but goes to the overhead of the new OS ; hence Vista adn its 2gig RAM recommendation. THe Vista issues will be solved in time, but I'm taking about now (for the next year, maybe two).
Even if I had $5-6,000 to spend on a new machine , it still woouldn't matter. I would still have a real quick Vista machine that couldn't run old apps, and take advantage of newer hardware.
MIcrosoft has use over a barrel, but I 'm not read to go over the falls yet; hence the question of a better machine that will run XP and have newer hardware.
The issue is the new hardware
by orlbuckeye - 11/1/07 4:02 AM In reply to: It's not a money issue ...really by willie61manufacturers are putting their resources into developing drivers for Vista and not XP. Getting machines with like the Nvidia series 7 graphics cards the XP drivers are great but the series 8 they are hard to find.
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