XP or Vista

thor

The problem for vista and microsoft is that they messed up big time by making xp too good.

crox

I use vista at work and xp at home, I'm more than happy with both, but I won't be "upgrading" my home pc's. XP service pack 3 is due soon, rumour is that it makes xp 10% faster. Another rumour is that the speed increase it gives xp is the reason it's so delayed.

superscaper

crox wrote: »

I use vista at work and xp at home, I'm more than happy with both, but I won't be "upgrading" my home pc's. XP service pack 3 is due soon, rumour is that it makes xp 10% faster. Another rumour is that the speed increase it gives xp is the reason it's so delayed.

Delayed? AFAIK it still falls within the expected MS development cycles. Betas are already being tested, hence the 10% speed increase reports. In fact the release candidate is already being tested and is publically available.

motorguy

fletcher1985 wrote: »

i bought my laptop at tescos few months ago for £299 its a great laptop, but they not got them anymore

Err, great! :rolleyes:

hullight

My dad's new Dell laptop with Vista Business on it is much better than my year-old one on paper (four times the RAM, dual-core processor, etc.).

However, I use Ubuntu Linux, which isn't even the quickest distribution out there, and mine leaves his for dust. I mean, a couple of minutes to shut down a brand new computer is taking the biscuit.

wacko911

XP - Vista sucks !!!, its a lemon (IMNSHO)

GunJack

yeah, got to go with XP over Vista any day. Like the sound of SP3 and the better speeds too.

GunJack

...unless, of course, the dreaded IE7 is a compulsory part of it......:eek:

hullight

GunJack wrote: »

...unless, of course, the dreaded IE7 is a compulsory part of it......:eek:

IE7 is great - my dad hated it so much he has now switched to Firefox!

bigfishman

for your needs you may aswell buy a vista one for £400 you can get a 1.5 core 2 duo and 2 gbs of ram this will surpass your needs for internet music freecell tv movies ...
I run xp on my desktop as i need it cos obviously theres loads of compatibility issues with vista.. but vista on my laptop which cost me £430 so i recomend for your needs just get vista.