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Dell Vista?
I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista
ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin |
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Dell Vista?
"Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin The release has been pushed back several times. The word now is sometime around the end of the year. Don't hold your breath. Microsoft has had some issues with this operating system and I think you can count on at least one more delay in the official release. Personally, I'm quite satisfied with XP. As far as I'm concerned, Internet Explorer is working just fine and I have no need for a see-through desktop interface. I take care of security myself and I'm quite capable of deciding on my own what media player I want to use or not use. The full-featured version of Vista will be an incredible resource hog and not runnable on many systems only a couple of years old. For that reason, it is sure to break many systems as uniformed users attempt to run it. |
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Dell Vista?
"Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin Best guess early 2007. Vista ready is dubious since vista will have Direct X 10 and none of the video cards sold with the current systems are DX10 able, so you will need to buy another card down the road...and that is one of the major benefits about vista DX10 especially if you are into gaming Bill |
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Dell Vista?
"Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin What W said. I've heard and read early '07, though MS is wafflling or won't publicly guarantee even that. |
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"S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin What W said. I've heard and read early '07, though MS is wafflling or won't publicly guarantee even that. Its sure a pity we couldnt have Vista and the Intel dual core duo released closer together. It would have been great for sales and the consumer. But if we did I am sure the conspiracy lovers would be out in force :-) Bill |
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Dell Vista?
"W" wrote in message ... "S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin What W said. I've heard and read early '07, though MS is wafflling or won't publicly guarantee even that. Its sure a pity we couldnt have Vista and the Intel dual core duo released closer together. It would have been great for sales and the consumer. But if we did I am sure the conspiracy lovers would be out in force :-) Bill Bill, Regardless of the claims, I'm unconvinced that either the Core 2 Duo or Vista produce a significant amount of "excitement" in the short term. There are a lot of capable P4/533-800mhz Windows XP machines out there in use that operate perfectly well. I guess we'll all see if either give Intel or MS a huge "bump" in sales. I generally stay 2-3 years behind technology anyway. Stew |
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Dell Vista?
"S.Lewis" wrote in message news "W" wrote in message ... "S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin What W said. I've heard and read early '07, though MS is wafflling or won't publicly guarantee even that. Its sure a pity we couldnt have Vista and the Intel dual core duo released closer together. It would have been great for sales and the consumer. But if we did I am sure the conspiracy lovers would be out in force :-) Bill Bill, Regardless of the claims, I'm unconvinced that either the Core 2 Duo or Vista produce a significant amount of "excitement" in the short term. There are a lot of capable P4/533-800mhz Windows XP machines out there in use that operate perfectly well. I guess we'll all see if either give Intel or MS a huge "bump" in sales. I generally stay 2-3 years behind technology anyway. Stew Stew I agree time will tell. My P4/3.4 8400 is two years old and knock wood it has done very well, and I will hang onto it for at least another year, maybe a bit longer. I will not even bother installing vista on it. I will wait to see how it thngs shake out before shelling out any $$ Bill |
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Dell Vista?
i agree. hardware is way ahead of software. and the cost differential
between the latest hardware and that of even one generation behind makes it seem completely unappealing for most purposes. "S.Lewis" wrote in message news "W" wrote in message ... "S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin What W said. I've heard and read early '07, though MS is wafflling or won't publicly guarantee even that. Its sure a pity we couldnt have Vista and the Intel dual core duo released closer together. It would have been great for sales and the consumer. But if we did I am sure the conspiracy lovers would be out in force :-) Bill Bill, Regardless of the claims, I'm unconvinced that either the Core 2 Duo or Vista produce a significant amount of "excitement" in the short term. There are a lot of capable P4/533-800mhz Windows XP machines out there in use that operate perfectly well. I guess we'll all see if either give Intel or MS a huge "bump" in sales. I generally stay 2-3 years behind technology anyway. Stew |
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Dell Vista?
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"Kevin M" wrote: I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin Microsoft typically has issued a "Technology Guarantee" promising a free upgrade about 90 days before release. |
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Dell Vista?
In article ,
"S.Lewis" wrote: "W" wrote in message ... "S.Lewis" wrote in message ... "Kevin M" wrote in message ... I've noticed that some of the new Dell computers are advertised "Vista ready". Does anyone know when Vista is to be released? Thanks Kevin What W said. I've heard and read early '07, though MS is wafflling or won't publicly guarantee even that. Its sure a pity we couldnt have Vista and the Intel dual core duo released closer together. It would have been great for sales and the consumer. But if we did I am sure the conspiracy lovers would be out in force :-) Bill Bill, Regardless of the claims, I'm unconvinced that either the Core 2 Duo or Vista produce a significant amount of "excitement" in the short term. There are a lot of capable P4/533-800mhz Windows XP machines out there in use that operate perfectly well. I guess we'll all see if either give Intel or MS a huge "bump" in sales. I generally stay 2-3 years behind technology anyway. Stew I've exercised beta 2 of Vista on my 3.0 Ghz Pentium-D with 4 Gig Ram, and found Vista no great shakes. Setting it up for dual boot with Windows XP did clobber the f11 boot to restore from the Ghost partition. |
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