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Originally posted by SLO-BOB
I believe that Vista should have been an intuitive, easy to use upgrade from XP. Why change everything around so much? A simple improvement of things that are imperfect about XP would have made far more sense and been a bigger success. And again, I'm far from the only critic of Vista. As told to me by the Best Buy sales personel, Vista machines are being returned in droves. They don't even try to stick people with the 15% restocking fee.
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While I tend to agree with you, there are a number of influences at play. First and most important, the main role of Vista is to introduce a new level of software with security as the main feature. I was deeply disappointed that MS caved into all of the whiners on this topic. What has driven its success has been exactly what you want: Simplicity. That’s not going to happen as long as there idiots out there that get their kicks writing viruses, worms and trojans. And as far as “security through obscurity” goes Mac’s and Linux as starting to see these issues pop up too.
As for a buying a PC at any of the big box stores goes, remember these are the same folks that promoted Packard Bell and other POS computers in the past. I don’t care what brand you buy, just make sure you buy it from a business oriented reseller. These folks know what it really takes to make a box do what you want it to do. Alternatively, go to the Dell Small Business site and look at their business oriented offerings like Latitude and Optiplex. Then see what their recommended configurations for mid-tier look like. That would hopefully eliminate 1 Gb boxes from the equation very quickly.
By any chance are you coming up to Kershaw in a few weeks? If so, I would enjoy meeting you. And it is a lot more fun talking cars than PC’s!