On 10/14/06 Ed Durrant wrote:
> I wouldn't say Dell is "Junk", but their cheaper models are not the 
> absolute latest technology. The T series Thinkpads have a titainium 
> case 
> which is both strong and light - this costs extra money. The Thinkpad 
> has hardware security features that the DELL may not have. The target 
> for the Thinkpad is corporate enterprises, DELL targets the home and 
> smaller business users.
> 
> What I would say, if you need to run Windoze on the system is wait if 
> you can. Once Vista is released, two things will happen;
> 
> 1. all computer hardware will have higher performance specifications, 
> especially in the video area as they will have to, to be able to run 
> Vista (even the lower level versions of Vista need a more powerful 
> system with more memory and larger disk than XP does).
> 
> and 2. The systems for sale with XP installed will drop dramatically 
> in 
> price to clear the stock as the market will want systems with Vista
> installed.

And from what I have read the basic versions of Vista will not be allowed 
by license to be run in a VM, assuming one has a VM with the resources to 
run such a gargantuan bloated pig.  I think this may finally lead to a 
distinct break for all the many people who run multiple OSs as m$ will most 
assuredly break any boot manager other than their own as well.  That will 
make it very difficult to run multiple platforms on one system.   They are 
going for the jugular.  Hopefully they end up slicing their own.

Mark

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