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just purchased a vista ready gateway (GT5432).

Jul 3, 2007 11:50AM PDT

haven't received it yet.

is it time to move up to vista from XP or not? i could still return it. i'm just not confident about vista. i'm ambivalent about moving up to it.

the new machine looks great. Amd 64x2 5000+. i almost wish it came with XP because of its stability.

any help or opinions appreciated.

thanks

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Not Quite Sure What You're Saying..
Jul 3, 2007 12:29PM PDT

Does the computer have XP installed? Or does it have Vista?

Just my opinion...If it's got SP SP2 installed, leave it that way for a while.. Too many bugs at this point especially if you have to "upgrade" to Vista.

Think about the software you're going to run plus all the hardware such as printers, routers, etc. Do they have Vista drivers and firmware? It's your choice.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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(NT) vista is installed
Jul 3, 2007 9:00PM PDT
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I would stick with XP for now
Jul 3, 2007 1:26PM PDT

Everyone I know that has been using Vista has been having problems. IMHO, I would wait at least a year before upgrading, especially if you are not comfortable with the technical aspects of your PC. Vista is a whole new Windows OS. Some things are familiar, some things are new. It has borrowed heavily from Linux and Mac, so don't expect an easy transition from XP to Vista. There is a learning curve.

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Vista
Jul 4, 2007 4:21AM PDT

I would say after setting up three Vista machines with most everything I can think of it's about the same as when I got XP for the first time, some things work, some need help to work and some won't at all. These are laptop and two desktops, two Basic version one Premium.

I will say like XP I bought the computers with the OS already on them so I don't have to hunt down working main drivers, I did the factory restore DVD's right off as who knows what was going to go on and may need to redo all - with the first one I bought XP Home upgrade as I thought I couldn't stand it any more when a few of my things wouldn't work, I partitioned the drive and dual booted, now I am back to Vista. Like my XP machines they all have their bugs, the laptop wouldn't share the HP all in one as a networked printer only as a local, one desktop won't read my flash drive at all - says error reading it, FrontPage 2003 gives me odd results on deleting files as a group. In short I have found some things work actually better and some not. So it does totally depend on what you want Vista to do on the machine you get.

Can't go by me tho, I started using computers when using Beta software was the fun thing to do and I have always jumped on the new OS band wagon as soon as it comes out - XP service pack 2 was a long time coming though and the best improvement to XP and I would imagine it will be the same with Vista. Going from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 still can't be beat but talk about not being able to get things to work - networking just my two computers back then was hours of work.

Northlite

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(NT) thanks for the comments. very helpful.
Jul 5, 2007 9:38AM PDT