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Almost like writing IIII instead of IV]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 24th 2007 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 24th 2007 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 24th 2007 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
And those guys/gays are all probably passive-aggressive types with a benz, so I guess it's for humour.]]>Apr 12th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
He is well aware that Acer is doing well on its own - but he points out that the entire PC manufacture industry was hoping for something exciting from Vista that would get consumers in the stores and buying new hardware to run Vista on.


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There is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista as far as I can tell, it does everything I want it to. It hasn't crashed ever so I am unsure of the stability issues. Also, so far it is much more secure than XP or OS X was at this stage in its life.

I think the real issue is his sales aren't as high as he wants them and blames the OS of all reasons. Any consumer that buys new hardware solely for the purpose of getting a new OS is a n00b. That just seems like a total waste of cash!]]>Jul 23rd 2007 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
After using a Mac and even Linux I just cannot believe how much extra effort is involved. Everything is being dumbed down into "centres." I get the impression MS is laying a groundwork for vendors to provide a customized experience without so many clicks, but maybe there aren't enough suckers willing to fall into this MS controlled trap.

I will never willingly buy a Windows computer again. The only thing interesting in Vista is the Internet orientation - at least they can learn after misunderstanding the Internet so badly in the early 90s - but I think it will end up biting them as users organize and people realize how many workarounds are involved.
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Oh BTW I even bought Vista and installed on my Vista capable Pavilion dv9074 and love it. Vista Media Center is splendid and the whole OS is the biggest improvement since Windows 95. ]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
(But don't tell him I said that!)]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
:-)
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I can see why too - Vista doesn't really add anything over XP apart from new graphics. I would happily use it in fact if it was just XP with new graphics, but the many little worsifications of the user interface - the general Vista-nag-factor - have made me hate it. UAC is as offensive as it is stupid, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
how about making a better OS on their own?]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
That said, MS really should not be charging that much for an OS. An OS shouldn't "do" anything except get out of the way and let the user do what they need their system to do.

Anybody's OS, including Apple's should be as simple as possible, running in the background, unnoticed. Like Linux.

We're in the days when, thanks to marketing, the OS is more important than the applications that run on them.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
if Acer is going to nag and complain about Vista, maybe they should have a look at fixing their own crap first. just maybe.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Aug 16th 2007 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
If you're bitter about not being able to every single game...get a real job and occupy yourself, and *gasp* go outside on the weekends!]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
The problem with that is, if I'm going to sit them down and walk them through a new OS all over again, I may as well just get them on OS X or Ubuntu. Dell is still selling XP (for now) so I'm not forced to make this choice yet, but when the time comes I think I'm going to get them on Ubuntu. Vista is just ridiculous, a pain in the ass, and offers no significant improvements for the average mom 'n pop users. Picking Ubuntu knocks at least $100 off the price tag, and this might not seem like much until you realize you can get a complete desktop system with it for $329 (!). The Vista systems are more like $499 and up.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/Jul 23rd 2007 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/
I have to say, I do prefer Vista now that I've sat down and played with it, and the main good thing is the new start menu with a search built in. It feels a little bit faster (but maybe that's the hardware too), and setting up my networked stuff was far easier than on the XP comps (I didn't even have to install a program for my WD netcentre network hard drive). I don't see much wrong with Vista, many a few driver and game issues, but XP had that at the beggining too.

Acre, OTH, is a piece of s**t... My first lappie was an Acer and it sucked hardcore... Last time I used there h/w, so I don't know if they have improve their POS h/w.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/I bought a $2500 TravelMate 8200 and had to listen to screws rattling around inside it until they finally fell out. I could send it in to be repaired, except their turn around time is about 2 weeks.
Of all the people to start bitching about Vista it sure as hell shouldn't be that pack of idiots.
Acer, never again.
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It is nice to know that with my 2GB of memory, XP will hum....can't say the same with vista.
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Acer has a WHOLE lot of work to do to aid in the user experience, IMO.]]>Jul 26th 2007 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/23/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xxxx-acers-gianfranco-lanci-says-ent/http://itanalystreports.com/rss/2007/03/12/merrill-lynch-one-laptop-per-child-another-blue-sea-or-a-bubble-march-2007-10-pages/

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Kudos to windows for trying to make improvements, but Apple still wins the customer satisfaction ratings by leaps and bounds in my opinion. My next computer is definitely going to be a Mac.]]>Jul 23rd 2007 10:27PM