Desktops: Need advice on New Dell
Need advice on New Dell
by dawn31400 - 1/1/08 7:56 PMI am looking at purchasing a Dell Inspiron 530
2 choices :
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E4500(2mb L2 Cache, 2.20GHz, 800 FSB)
Windows XP
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz-2DIMMs
20 inch Monitor
500GB serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)w/DataBurst Cache
19 in 1 Media card reader
16x DVD=/RW Drive
This is $828
or
same as above with
Vista Home Premium
Dual drives 48x CDRW/DVD COMBO Drive + 16xDVD+/-RW Drive
$799
Should I go with the XP and sacrifice the Dual Optical Drive?
Does it matter? I know the price difference is insignificant.
I am currently using a 8 yr old
HP Pavillion with upgraded XP
850 Mhz
256 MB
I had ME and it was a complete disaster! I do not want to go through it again with Vista. I guess I need reassurance that it's a good OS or stay with my trusty XP.
Any advice?
Go with XP OS
by Willy - 1/2/08 5:25 AM In reply to: Need advice on New Dell by dawn31400XP was suppose to be out of the picture by now but Vista still has issues and thus being offered. If you want Vista, get it, if not and far more stable use XP. As for the dual optical drive, you can always add that later, even Vista should you need to provided you went with the XP system. The difference isn't that great and IMHO, you'll be more happy with XP based system. Dell, is also having some problems with Vista itself for whatever reason as least it seems so.
tada -----Willy 
It's not as bad as ME.
by R. Proffitt
- 1/2/08 6:59 AM
In reply to: Need advice on New Dell by dawn31400
But for those with old printers, cameras, scanners it will be. You may find my posts about "Vista is the new Windows ME" which is turning out to be true for those that have old gear.
If you don't have the old baggage then it's usually OK with just a few tweaks (and 2GB RAM!)
Bob
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