From: "Hrvoje Mesing" 


"Gary Britt"  wrote in
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Hi,

Well, I think I would hop directly to Win. Vista Home Premium. There is
Aero possibility on this one, it has Mobility centar for laptops (not sure
about Baisc).
In overall, easier Backup/Restore, VIM_s, better Power Management, booting,
some memory functions you could use. MEdia Centar, Scheuled
Defrags/Backups.. etc.

I would use Premium for not much of a cost.


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M.


> 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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