Re: [OT] New toys, new problems?

Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant Lukas Mariman covertly transmitting a message to renegade
friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...

>"moschops" <moschop@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schreef in bericht 
>news:SeCdnbtEQ8CTr5bVRVnyiAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Lukas Mariman wrote:
>>
>>> I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad
processor, 
>>> and comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted software
included) 
>>> preloaded.
>>
>>
>> If you've got your heart set on windows (and, sadly, there is still
plenty 
>> of software that's windows only) you could dig out your previous copy
of 
>> XP and install that instead.
>
>
>I'm considering doing that, although I guess I should give Vista a try
for a 
>while. Also, I'm keeping my old Win XP system, at least for the time
being, 
>and you're not supposed to install from the same copy on more than one 
>system without the activation going postal. :-/ 

Just a thought, but presumably your HD is big enough that you can
install another OS on a separate partition?  Or shove in another HD
and install separately on that?  Though I don't know if there is much
advantage to running two Windows systems side by side.  I'd certainly
be interested to hear how you get on with Vista.

Netrunner