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   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant Lukas Mariman covertly transmitting a message to renegade   
   friends in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >"moschops"  schreef in bericht   
   >news:SeCdnbtEQ8CTr5bVRVnyiAA@brightview.com...   
   >> Lukas Mariman wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad processor,   
   >>> and comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted software included)   
   >>> preloaded.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> If you've got your heart set on windows (and, sadly, there is still plenty   
   >> of software that's windows only) you could dig out your previous copy of   
   >> XP and install that instead.   
   >   
   >   
   >I'm considering doing that, although I guess I should give Vista a try for a   
   >while. Also, I'm keeping my old Win XP system, at least for the time being,   
   >and you're not supposed to install from the same copy on more than one   
   >system without the activation going postal. :-/   
      
   Just a thought, but presumably your HD is big enough that you can   
   install another OS on a separate partition?  Or shove in another HD   
   and install separately on that?  Though I don't know if there is much   
   advantage to running two Windows systems side by side.  I'd certainly   
   be interested to hear how you get on with Vista.   
      
   Netrunner   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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