From: Gary Britt 

I'm not really in the market at the moment for a laptop or desktop but was
wondering the answers to these questions for a purchase later in the year.

Thanks for the input.


Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
>  It's going to be a pretty basic laptop if it just ships with Vista Basic.
> If you are comfortable with XP Home I'd just look for a laptop that comes
> with that as an OEM copy of XP Home will run around $90.  ( see link
> below ).  I'd put that $90 into better hardware in the laptop as there may
> be some nice discounts as retailers clear their XP laptops.  You'll also be
> scrounging for firewall software as most offerings for Vista seem to be in
> the beta category currently
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16832116056
>
> not really point B. but you may want to see what OS recovery software comes
> with the laptop. Most seem to just want to blast your partition away and
> have you start over from scratch. I'd be more worried about Vista's embedded
> drm but we probably won't see what the ramifications are for a few months
>
>
>
> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
> news:45b6b11f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I've got an XP Home based laptop that I use for work.  I have it pretty
>> well customized and it works well for me (almost as well as Win2K Pro).
>> Probably just the networking of XP Home that is a bit less nice than Win2K
>> Pro and the inaccessibility of a few features/interfaces to possible
>> settings that is the biggest difference for me.  However, after effort,
>> research, and cruising varies places I am able to customize XP Home to my
>> liking and full usability.
>>
>> I was just looking at some computers on a flyer from Wal-Mart and I
>> noticed these machines would be shipping preloaded with windows Vista
>> Basic.  My understanding is that Windows Vista Basic is basically XP Home.
>>
>>
>> So Here are my questions.  Since Vista Basic is basically XP Home and I
>> like XP Home would I be happy with Vista Basic??
>>
>> A.  Is Vista Basic going to be slower and resource hoggish compared to XP
>> Home?  If so by how much?
>>
>> B.  Does the Vista deactivation features make it impossible to trust and
>> therefore unusable regardless of the answers to my other questions?
>>
>> C.  Any compelling feature in Vista Basic not in XP Home?
>>
>> So what's your recommendation regarding Vista Basic versus XP Home?
>>
>> Should I buy an OEM license for Win2K or XP Pro/Home and wipe Vista Basic
>> off a new computer?  I'm also considering multi-booting Linux and XP
>> Home/Vista Basic as part of a migration to Linux permanently because I
>> don't like where Microsoft wants to take me today.?
>>
>> Gary
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