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#1 ·
Well,... bought my wife a new laptop for Christmas. Dunno why she does not like the souped up, overclocked monster desktop I built her, but, laptops are,...ok I guess.
Other than the fact that it came with Vista,....hmmm.... got two words for this and can't decide which better describes it, ... ICK, or ... YUCK, ....OK, OK, I can think of many other words to describe it but I won't go there.

This is the first machine I've bought in many, many, many years (I prefer to build them) and was really surprised at all the junk that is loaded on them these days,... deleted or un-installed ~1.08GHz of junk.
 
#43 ·
We go through this every time a new OS comes out. There are always people that have trouble adapting. I think part of the blame is also the third party vendors, they all knew that Vista was coming but true Vista support from these vendors has been very slow
 
#44 ·
And vice versa, MS are slow if non-existant in making there OSes backwards compatible. They seem to stop updating and providing hardware support for the previous version after every new OS come out. Imagine if a car company did that or even stoped making spares after 5 years? Everyone one would be in the poopies, not just those who couldn't afford a new car ever 5 years.
 
#52 ·
I do not think so, Windows 95 is more than 12 years ago !
Why would you want to use a program that old ?
Because they still work just fine. While maybe not quite 12 years old (I think it's about 11 :bigsmile:), I still use Corel Draw7, Corel Photo Paint 7, and a number of other old programs. They do everything I need them to do and I don't need to fork out a ton of cash (can you say $449.99 for Photoshop CS3?) on upgrades or new programs. Fortunately, so far, all my old programs still work with XP.
 
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