<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 5, 2007 4:01 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 12/5/07, Tim Wilson <<a href="mailto:tim_linux@wilson-home.com">tim_linux@wilson-home.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm trying to get my new laptop ready. I want to do a backup of it before<br>
> Vista screws with it. And doing a backup of it has proved to be a pain. If<br>> I can get it ready in time, I plan on registering. If not, I guess I'll<br>> catch it next time. What is the registration deadline?
<br><br></div>You're going to run Vista on a gaming PC? Everything that I've read<br>indicates that XP is much faster than Vista. Even if I liked Windows,<br>I can't think of a compelling reason to switch (other than "Ooh I
<br>gotta have the latest release").</blockquote><div><br>See the "new laptop" part. :) It came with Vista, and until I decide I can't take it any longer, that's what I'm gonna run with. Since I haven't even let Vista boot yet, I don't know how bad it really is. I'm willing to give it a fair shake. I wish it had Vista Ultimate or Vista Business on it, then I could freely "downgrade" it to XP Pro. But, I don't have the $$$ to purchase XP right now, and I don't have the time to install XP before the lan party. Eventually, I plan to re-partition the drive to put Ubuntu on it (if it runs, I had a problem with the
6.10 live CD), and maybe XP MCE. I seriously doubt I'll like Vista, but I'm gonna give it a shot first.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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