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While not a drinker of the Steve Jobs Kool-Aid, I do think Apple usually puts out some pretty good stuff.

Got my first new computer in 10 years and thought OS-X was good enough reason to switch and skip the Vista headache.

Different strokes for different folks I guess...]]>Jun 1st 2008 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/...lucky them.]]>Feb 29th 2008 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
http://www.saadrabia.com/2008/03/01/get-windows-vista-ultimate-for-cheap-200/]]>Mar 1st 2008 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Mar 3rd 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Software/Operating+Systems/Microsoft+Windows+Vista+Ultimate+Retail+DVD?productId=29450

I've got four PCs so that would be a minor matter of £1400 to switch them all to Vista. At least with XP you could buy the OEM version of Pro for £90 but with Vista's new activation (deactivation?) scheme that's no longer an option.

People are always debating whether Vista is any good but to me that seems rather pointless. Even if it was fantastic it's too expensive. I've started a progressive change to Ubuntu and Open Office. I'd probably have stuck with Windows but with the prices Microsoft are charging they're not leaving me any choice but to change to Linux.]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
It's sad that you got ranked down. I bought a new laptop last year and I honestly tried to give Vista a fair shake. I left it on there for three months. But when it couldn't run some of the applications for which I specifically purchased that particular model of laptop (video editing with the built-in Firewire port), I went back to XP.

A lot of it had to deal with Aero just crushing the laptop's resources as well, but I disabled it. Suddenly, it looked just like XP and my video capture/editing software *still* didn't work. That was it for me. I bought a bigger hard drive, threw it in, and installed XP.

I just bought a new podcasting PC with Vista on it, and it runs fine for the apps that I run on that. So, I'm just leaving it with Vista. It just goes to show that not everyone can use Vista for everything. Too bad that you got ranked down for admitting that.]]>Feb 29th 2008 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
Vista ---> XP = UPgrade, not downgrade.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/ OSX > *BSD > XP SP2 / 2k > Solaris/OpenSolaris > various other unices > Vista > ME

...in a nutshell.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
Sigh... I think it's pretty unfair that Vista got bashed so much without much valid justifications.]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/i have tried it myself, and those were the worst months of my life.
Compatibility is still a HUGE issue.

I run mostly 3ds max, vray, adobe cs3 and a few other production based software tools. My computer ran those just fine when i was running xp. But when i run them on vista, i get TONS of crashes and "program not responding" errors.
You think i need better hardware? core 2 duo 2.8ghz, 4gb ram. While that may not be the best out there, it certainly was more than enough when i was running xp.
I think the problem just lies in compatibility between the OS and my software. ]]>Feb 29th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
Can't have OS X in my PC... too much tweaks. Can't get a Mac, too much money. Can't get linux on my PC, too much lack of support for latests Adobe software.

I have had Vista for months, and if it weren't for a hardware problem with my geforce (which I'll get replaced soon enough) I'd be still using it.

I've got all my software installed, plus games, plus document sharing with another XP install (my computer is used for working, tho, so I had to make the transition step by step).

I take the opportunity to give a piece of advice: ALWAYS have your Docs in ANOTHER partition than the system+apps one. If you can avoid it, don't use ANOTHER disc, that'll hinder the performance.

My 2c.

Cheer up guys, there are users for everything, including BOB.]]>Feb 29th 2008 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
Win9x was slow on the hardware of the day when it came out so I won't give Vista too much flak for that but the UI is just horrid IMO.]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
Yay for economics ppl here :)]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
That would be good!!! I'll be keeping an eye out at Micro-Center!!!

I wish they at least sold Vista Home Premium OEM for $129.99 the same price as OS X retail... ]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/~I~ Does it run on my hardware?
XP, Linux = true
OSX = FAIL
~II~ Does it run well?
Linux, OSX = true
Win* = FAIL
~III~ Does it run well on my hardware?
(I AND II) ..'course, software matters too: thank goodness for WINE, kvm, and dual booting.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
Wait, what?
(this can be taken in two ways.)]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Microsoft like any other software company will provide support to OEM software for the first 90 days.

"Please visit Personal Support Center for no-charge technical assistance on Microsoft Products. Pay-per-incident technical support is available to customers with preinstalled, bundled, or software upgrades from the PC manufacturer."

Which is no different from policies of Apple, Adobe or any other big software company.]]>Feb 29th 2008 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Mar 3rd 2008 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 3:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/
If you're serious though, like, I'll give you all the help I can; answer various questions and such, provide support for Ubuntu, various advice, my experience migrating.. ethana2@gmail.com (or whoever)]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/vista-prices-officially-go-down-but-will-consumer-interest-go-u/Feb 29th 2008 5:20AM