Even Microsoft has trouble understanding what "Vista Capable" means

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i use home basic on my old laptop and it runs better

i use home basic on my old laptop and it runs better than xp ever did on that old thing.

home basic works on it because it's striped down with out all the eye candy crap that i usually turn off on a laptop any ways because i use it for work not play.

my main box runs vista ultimate and my wifes computer which is my old gaming box runs vista home premium.

i think Microsoft and the computer manufactures should put a logo that this computer will run

1. all versions of vista or vista basic only.

2. tell computer manufactures that only computers that meet the specs for the premium versions get the logo as capable.

and i think your right about computer manufactures trying to unload the cheapest crap they can push on people. they do this because most computer buyers are clueless when buying a computer.

look at what they do RAM is so cheap now that you can max a system out for under $200.00. they are still putting celeron cpus in some computers and not even the newest celerons that you can pick up every day for $ 20-30 every day of the week.

a good video card now days not a high end but a good cheap video card can be got for under $50.

yet dell hp acer and every other manufacture sells crap.

and Microsoft gets a lot of flack because computers are sold with the bare minimum specs that will barely run an os. and then include all the crap they install with it 'it amazes me it will run at all.

i remember when xp came out they were trying to pawn off computers with 60mb of ram 200mhz cpus a 5gb harddrive. and so on and so on.

i know Microsoft does not have the power it used to have but with out windows computer manufactures are out of luck so Microsoft needs to tell these rip off artist "PC vendors"

ether you put the OS on a computer with the right specs or you don't get the os.

and on Microsoft's side they need to stop trying to put the minimum specs out saying this is what our os will run on.

they only hurt them selfs when they do crap like that.

the main reason i build my own computers is because if i tried to buy a computer with the specs i want it would run me 5k.

and i can buy the parts and put it together for under 1k and if i recycle parts from my old computer "DVD burner hard drive power supply and so on" i get off way cheaper that.

all though i use and like Microsoft software they really need to get some new marketing people.

Posted by: SO.CAL Guy   Posted on: 11/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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