"irobot1959" <irobot1959@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F81B47D0-2BDD-4271-8988-832839446E60@microsoft.com...
>I was considering buying a new compaq laptop but before I did I went to a
> rent 2 own place to check one out with the new O.S. Vista. I rented it
> for
> one week and right off the bat I thought for a brand new computer with
> more
> than enough ram and more than enough on the hard drive was running slow,
> slower than my desktop pc with XP and a couple years older. I asked the
> dealer about this and after calling someone in their service dept. I was
> told
> that it is because Vista is larger than any other O.S. before and there
> was
> nothing to do about it and microsoft actually confirmed this before Vista
> even came out. Is this place blowing smoke up my arse which I believe
> they
> are or what. The laptop I checked out was brand new out of the box. I
> was
> the first user on it so what say you??

Does the laptop fall into the specifications of these Vista ready laptops?
You'll notice Duo Core, speed and memory.

<http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?page=2&Nav=%7Cc:2480%7C&Sort=0&Re cs=10>

My HP dv9000 laptop has got it all, and I have no problems running Vista, I
have a whole host of background processes running too, and they and the O/S
run lickity split on the speed. I was at my sister's house earlier today to
use her printer with her desktop running XP Home. I was rolling on the floor
hollering how slow things were compared to my laptop running Vista. :) The
desktop computer was a few years old, and I did take that into
consideration.