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beast5680:
I have been looking at getting a new pc, any suggestions as to what to go for? not really need any fancy gaming verions or such like as it will be mainly for using internet and for swmbo to do her work on .
should i go for something with vista on it and will it be compatible with stuff i have plugged in at the minute such as printers and the like or should i ask for xp  to be installed
i keep hearing rumours of vista having lots of issues with running stuff, is this true?

richo:
get a dell.Go to there web site and have a look.

Jake:
I have a new laptop with Vista home premium on it.
Every thing works fine, no issues at all
 :D

300TDi Disco:

--- Quote from: beast5680 on January 25, 2009, 13:51:30 ---I have been looking at getting a new pc, any suggestions as to what to go for? not really need any fancy gaming verions or such like as it will be mainly for using internet and for swmbo to do her work on .
should i go for something with vista on it and will it be compatible with stuff i have plugged in at the minute such as printers and the like or should i ask for xp  to be installed
i keep hearing rumours of vista having lots of issues with running stuff, is this true?

--- End quote ---

Vista is improving, Personally i keep with XP as they have just released the sevicepack3 which has cleared a few more problems. Unless you have a powerful computer it will run slow. I would recommend either:

Dell: - www.dell.com
Ebuyer: - www.ebuyer.com

thermidorthelobster:
Get a Mac.

More reliable, far fewer security issues, it's stable, it does what you want and you don't have to spend your whole life trying to make it work.

I run both - 2 Macs at home and a Vista laptop at work.  I spend far more time struggling with the inadequacies of Vista than I ever do with OS X on the Macs.  Apple's slogan should be "it just works".  My main Mac has the exact same OS X install as I put on it 5 years ago when I first got one - it's been updated to new versions and even ported to a whole new machine and I've never had to do a reinstall or any major work on the O/S.  It's just as uncluttered and quick as it was when I first installed it.  By contrast, my 2-year-old Vista machine is creaking at the seams.  The bottom line is that I can use the machine productively and effectively without having to worry about viruses, worms, spyware, trojan horses etc.  The number wild in the Mac world is absolutely minimal.

I can run all the software I need to on the Mac - including MS Office or OpenOffice 3 - and if I ever need to run a Windows-only product I can run it under VMWare Fusion which gives me a full MS Windows installation in a window on my Mac desktop (last time I needed to do this was about 3 months ago).

I paid a bit more for my Mac than I would have done for a PC, but I have a machine that will save me no end of headaches, will last a lot longer before it gets clogged up and has to be replaced, and comes with a lot more useful software as standard that I'd have had to have found separately for a PC.  In terms of total cost of ownership it's a no-brainer.

This is no doubt the cue for several people who have not used Macs for years to chime in with some ill-informed rubbish about them not being up to much;  at least that's what normally happens on the Internet :)

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