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Gateway laptop with Vista and 512mbyte
chunter
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If I wasn't looking at it, I wouldn't believe it.
Exactly what it says on the tin.
Hard to believe any pc manufacturer would be negligent enough to put this on the market.
It's 3-4 years oldI think. I'm guessing it came out at the start of the ill-fated Vista debacle.
Owner asked me if he could have XP installed, so i went looking.
Sata drivers not on XP disk so you can't install from XP disc.
Now i could use nLite to create a special XP disc with the sata drivers which someone helpfully found and stuck on the internet but..
XP sata drivers not on Gateway website. Nor are any of the other XP drivers. Bios is as limited as any bios I've seen in the last 5 years.
Owner's gonna be staying with the ugly child vista. More memory needed.
But how awful are Gateway? How arrogant and intransigent are they to put out a vista-only capable laptop with 512mb?
Exactly what it says on the tin.
Hard to believe any pc manufacturer would be negligent enough to put this on the market.
It's 3-4 years oldI think. I'm guessing it came out at the start of the ill-fated Vista debacle.
Owner asked me if he could have XP installed, so i went looking.
Sata drivers not on XP disk so you can't install from XP disc.
Now i could use nLite to create a special XP disc with the sata drivers which someone helpfully found and stuck on the internet but..
XP sata drivers not on Gateway website. Nor are any of the other XP drivers. Bios is as limited as any bios I've seen in the last 5 years.
Owner's gonna be staying with the ugly child vista. More memory needed.
But how awful are Gateway? How arrogant and intransigent are they to put out a vista-only capable laptop with 512mb?
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My girlfriend's laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens. Vista. 512mb ram. Diabolically awful.
She's getting a new one for Valentine's Day
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LeeSouthEast wrote: »My girlfriend's laptop is a Fujitsu Siemens. Vista. 512mb ram. Diabolically awful.
She's getting a new one for Valentine's Day
The Amilios are horrible. The brothers girlfriend laptop stopped working, had to be sent to germany for a HDD replacement. Now the screen is faulty. Rubbish POS if you ask me
Only makes I consider good Dell, HP/Compaq, Toshiba, Sony, Acer
There's a few others but can't quite remember them. I love my Compaq N610c though, it's ancient but it's a beasty laptopOwner of andrewhope.co.uk, hate cars and love them
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wow that’s bad, however i would say find out which programs they are likely to use, if they will not be gaming or HAVING to use itunes or microsoft office (instead of the alternatives) get Ubuntu or xubuntu to try for them and run them in LiveCD mode to make sure everything works,
yes it will require a tiny bit of learning on how to set it up, however no more so than having to find and burn of new drivers and patch this and that etc.
and the big thing is if they dont like it it will not have cost them anything other than a CDDrop a brand challenge
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