Valid points. It seems to me that there is a lot of truth in the Rumors that
Vista
was designed to help sell more hardware. Totally flying in the face of the
new
lower priced PC's being made by the bigger hardware vendors. I suspect Dell
is happily selling these cheap systems knowing full well that they will end
up
selling expensive upgrades on every one.

I am sad, and a bit surprised by the number of people I see saying "But
Vista
is newer, so it should be faster, right?" I can only look at them in
disbelief. MS
really sold people on this idea, but they were banking on most people buying
higher end systems, which would mask the performance problems in Vista.

The only WOW I've heard from people is "Wow, this is really going to cost me
a lot of money, isn't it?"


"Gordon Keenan" <gordon@tasystems.org(removeme)> wrote in message
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>I have (over the last three weeks) had the opportunity to work at different
>places that have recently purchased new Dell Computer Equipment. A few
>small business's and some home users, so it's been a combinations of Vista
>Business and Home Edition.
>
> My experiences have left me extremely cold on what Dell considers to be an
> acceptable platform for the Vista operating system.
>
> All of the equipment is way under powered for decent use, though I have to
> say it would be fine for Windows XP.
>
> 512MB RAM - it's crippling the system!
> On-board video - Aero - zero chance of that happening for these users and
> certainly no WOW factor!
>
> The thing is, the people buying the equipment don't know any better but
> they all said the same thing... Why is the new computer running so slow?
> Surely it should be really fast with the new vista on it?
>
> As I run Vista Business on a dual-core Athlon 5600+ with 2GB of ram, and I
> find it sluggish at times, all I could do is tell them that in future,
> they should ask advice before just buying something cheap.
>
> As for Dell, a company that is trying to tell people that it KNOWS about
> computers, they should hang their heads in shame.. but the good thing is
> that independent computer builders now have a chance of making good spec
> pc's that will work better for the end user!
>
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