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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: landbeforetimelover on June 04, 2008, 02:13:08 AM

Title: I Hate Dells But I Still Buy Them
Post by: landbeforetimelover on June 04, 2008, 02:13:08 AM

YES!!!  I'm gonna buy a couple of really good Dell computers because they have hardware that's 100% compatible with xp.  In fact, you can even have them install xp from the factory!  Of course, I'd still install xp lite edition, but it's still wonderful!  See?  Microsoft isn't giving up xp yet and neither is the rest of the world.  Vista is as good as dead.  Like 1% of computer users actually like it. :rolleyes:

Vista has been out for so long and they still have crappy hardware support and it's still slow as heck on even the most advanced computers.  Service pack 1 was nothing but stupid anti-piracy programs that made all the illegal copies not work anymore.  That's all Microsoft is concerned about......keeping their investment safe. <_< SP1 also had all of the updates you should have gotten before so it was totally useless. :p

Title: I Hate Dells But I Still Buy Them
Post by: Kor on June 04, 2008, 09:44:56 AM

Good luck on your new computers, I hope they are what you want and need.

Title: I Hate Dells But I Still Buy Them
Post by: Keni on June 04, 2008, 11:26:23 AM

Really? Hm, interesting. I always see computer coming with Vista and I heard Microsoft was going to stop supporting XP this year, but looking it up now apparently you'll be able to buy copies of XP until 2009. So yeah, looks like XP is here to say for a while longer.

I still don't have problems with Vista, but yeah it's a CPU hogger. I don't see any reasons to downgrade back to XP though, so I'll be sticking with it. However, I'll give it a bit more time before permanently labeling it 'worse operating system ever' like so many people have labeled it so far.

Title: I Hate Dells But I Still Buy Them
Post by: Petrie. on June 04, 2008, 04:05:36 PM

Dell had bought so many licenses that's why they're still selling them.  If you're out of license keys you can't exactly sell XP since the OS always calls home.

Title: I Hate Dells But I Still Buy Them
Post by: landbeforetimelover on June 04, 2008, 11:49:00 PM

Dell is not the only company that's starting to do this.  HP, Compaq, and Gateway have started as well, but you can only get XP on the lower end computers.  They're still fully capable of vista, but they have hardware that's 100% compatible with xp.  That's why they still sell computers with xp on them because 99% of people would prefer xp over vista.

Title: I Hate Dells But I Still Buy Them
Post by: Petrie. on June 09, 2008, 03:42:35 PM

Makes perfect business sense if it'll get that computer out of the warehouse. ;)