Re: [OT] New toys, new problems?

"Netrunner" <e-mail.me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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]
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>>> 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.

I don't think I'll bother; it's enough of a hassle to cope with one
Windows 
on a machine; besides I still have my old(er) machine for when I REALLY
need 
XP.

As for Vista, so far I really like it. It seems pretty stable, I like the 
new Aero interface, it seems to run well, but I need way more time with it

to decide how useful it is compared to, say, XP. And as I wrote before, it

runs quite smoothly even with all the graphical bells and whistles on, but

then that's on a quad core system...