From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.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...   
      
   >"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.   
   >   
   >Slight update on how I get on - Lord of The Ring - the Battle For Middle   
   >Earth - a game from 2004 which is one of my favorites - installed ok, but   
   >downloading the patches seems not to work for some reason.   
   >   
   >This does not bode well.   
      
   Ouch!  This does not sound good.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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