From: lukas.mariman@REMOVEdommel.be   
      
   "Netrunner"  schreef in bericht   
   news:pbrq049qcql1f06fk8kc343mfu5hter71v@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
      
   I don't think I'll bother; it's enough of a hassle to cope with one Windows   
   on a machine; besides I still have my old(er) machine for when I REALLY need   
   XP.   
      
   As for Vista, so far I really like it. It seems pretty stable, I like the   
   new Aero interface, it seems to run well, but I need way more time with it   
   to decide how useful it is compared to, say, XP. And as I wrote before, it   
   runs quite smoothly even with all the graphical bells and whistles on, but   
   then that's on a quad core system...   
      
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