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Forum: Tech Talk 29-08-2008, 18:20
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

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You can but you may have fun chasing drivers down. Before you doit get a list of all hardwazre and download xp drivers before trying to install xp. You can install xp in a...
Forum: Tech Talk 29-08-2008, 06:45
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

It will be slower than XP anyway as 2 gig is teh minimum RAM to run vista in any real form. If you can afford and it has space, uppping this to 3 or 4 gig will help dramatically. there are a lot of...
Forum: Tech Talk 28-08-2008, 20:50
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

when you first start Vista it has to work hard to lots of indexing etc on teh disk, this can make them a bit slow and noisy as it does stress the machines.

if it continues take it back within a...
Forum: Tech Talk 28-08-2008, 10:12
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

thing is with the latest Ubuntu you don't need to 'learn' it anymore than you did windows, it reacts and 'works' teh same hence my suggestion of dual boot.

As I mentioned earlier, teh days of...
Forum: Tech Talk 27-08-2008, 21:12
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

HP only no 1 world wide thanks to merkins who have them shoved down their throat at wal mart :D Look at their sales in Europe, nowhere near number 1!

Sony- forgot them, PC for Mac wannabe's :D...
Forum: Tech Talk 27-08-2008, 20:26
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

thinkpad = reliable, slightly lower spec for money

HP = usually nothing special - can be expensive for teh "brand name"
Tosh - OK
Dell - bad rep, often undeserved)
Acer - lots of spec for your...
Forum: Tech Talk 27-08-2008, 08:16
Replies: 22
Views: 1,735
Posted By entwisi
Re: Laptops

seconded on Acer and ShopAcer, had 3 machines from them and never been dissatisfied

its getting harder to get new machines with XP so be persistant. The big issue is a lot of places tailor driver...
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