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

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

When my wife bought her new computer (which came with it) she heard so many bad things about Vista, we insisted on also getting a separate XP install and setting up a dual boot. So far, she's mostly booting to Vista, and it's been much more hassle-free that the fresh XP Pro SP2 install as far as finding drivers, installing new devices, etc. She's had zero problems with it. It doesn't ask for permission to do things incessantly, and that can be turned off.

Mind you, there are different levels of Vista out there (the way XP had Home and Professional versions) and hers was one of the high-end ones. Also, by no means is my wife a power user. But as an average consumer, she's satisfied.