From: "Robert Comer" 

In that case it's still too early to answer, I'd wait until enough of those
Vista Basic's get out there to hear something from the users.

I personally wont run Basic, but then again, I'm not running Vista (any
version) at the moment anyway.

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Bob Comer





"Gary Britt"  wrote in
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> 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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