Dear Lazyweb, re: Vista

[holzman_tweed]

Hey, fellow geeks:  Soon it will be time for me to buy a new PC.  I'm looking at a number of things, from the HP Paviliaion d5100t to the Dell Studio XPS to the Falcon NW Fragbox.  I have two questions:

1) What's your favorite muscle box, that you'd recommend I look at?  I'm hoping to keep the whole thing under or not much over $3K.

2) Everyone's offering Vista, and I'm hearing I'll have to jump through hoops, spend extra money, and spend lots of time on the phone to downgrade from Vista to XP.  Has M$ fixed Vista to the point that it's safe to use, or should I gear up for the headaches?

Comments

[impgrrl.livejournal.com]

I read a review for Vista that basically said the User Agreement was signed in blood, and a very important piece of you was kept as collateral...something about a soul...

[holzman.livejournal.com]

You read correctly. I also attended a presentation wherein they demonstrated that the Vista memory security model was flawed in it's design and had to be redone from scratch. (Not to be confused with a bug in the design implementation that could be fixed with a patch.)

I was asking if M$ had noticed that no one's buying Vista and fixed these problems yet.