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[Bojack]

tricked you ahaha

Seriously, I need to decide between XP or Vista on a laptop. I hear Vista hogs like a sumbitch, and not only that, this refurbished model comes with Vista Business. Idk if that's worse but w/e.

Anyway, the system specs are Intel C2D 2.0, Nvidia 8600, 2GB RAM, good enough hard drive, don't care about the rest. I dont want to hear any of this 'that system blowz, because it doesn't. I've done my research and people can run Crysis, Bioshock, and CoD4 with those specs on med-high settings.

But should I pay an extra 70 or so bucks to buy a new one with XP instead? Or do games run ok in Vista? I had Vista on my old comp, only 512 MB memory, so my opinion will be biased. And I'm hearing Vista + games = fail unless the system is a monster to begin with. Is that true?

[Bra]

Well, I imagine that eventually XP will go the way of the dinosaur, but I have used Vista and it is, at least for now, very frustrating.

But if you recall, XP was horrible when it first came out, too. I've never had trouble with my copy. *Shrug*

Vista shoor looks purdy, though.

I imagine it would run fine with a more powerful computer, but that's neither here nor there. I'm no computer guy, so I'd probably just go with whatever someone more adept with this crap suggests. Or whichever I thought was cooler.

[Saz]

That's a pretty good laptop right there. I thought you said you only had, like, $300 to spend?

[Raditzu]

There's only one game I ran into problems with on Vista, and that was more the game's fault than Vista's. (The Witcher, btw)

Overall, though, I'd suggest getting the Vista. With the exception of User Account Control, I like Vista more than XP in pretty much every way. And I was very skeptical when I switched.

[Waffuru]

You won't be able to run Crysis, but still it's good.

There's no reason to get XP, especially not for extra money. The biggest issue with Vista is drivers and at this point, most of the driver issues have been solved.

Anyone who thinks XP is better than Vista is just being a fag, and if for some reason it's running slowly you can turn off Aero and turn it into a better coded XP.

[Retane]

ONly thing I've run into an issue with Vista s far, is the fact that the last few seconds of a song I play on media player... has a skip of sorts... but IM sure if I do an update thats it will be fixed. I'm to lazy and it seems all I can get is dial up aroundhere at the moment lol

[Raditzu]

That's because you're using WMP.

=(

[Bojack]

That's a pretty good laptop right there. I thought you said you only had, like, $300 to spend?

It was initially 600, but I did more research and it stretched a lot.

@Waffuru: because of Vista I won't be able to run Crysis, or the specs themselves? Because most people say their similar system can run it, and I've seen vids of people running it on similar systems. Similar meaning maybe they had .2GHZ more processor speed or something.

[Waffuru]

Because of specs. Crysis is one of the worst system hogs ever created. It was almost like they intentionally didn't know that loading all of the hi-res textures for a map at once was a stupid idea. It's become a benchmark, almost, it say that you can run Crysis at a playable framerate. You're definitely going to be running it on lowest settings.

And no one can run the last level.

[Orion]

The only real issue with Vista is RAM. It takes 1gb just to run the OS properly, then if you want to do anything else, you need more. 2gb should run pretty well, so there's no worry.

I still use XP, and I have no desire to change to Vista. When I bother to get a laptop, I'll get Vista on that, but mostly because that's the way it will eventually go. So if you want to future proof it, get Vista.

[Waffuru]

You shouldn't have less than 1gb of RAM for any reason anymore. Hell, I'm running 4gb of RAM and might even upgrade to 8gb.

[Orion]

You shouldn't have less than 1gb of RAM for any reason anymore. Hell, I'm running 4gb of RAM and might even upgrade to 8gb.

I see plenty of people at work buy a laptop with Vista with less than 1gb in it.

Not a real lotta point in going to 8gb at the moment though, is there?

[Saz]

My sisters got laptops with roughly 1gb of RAM and they don't seem to have any problems. I heard you need 500mb to run Vista, not 1gb like someone mentioned earlier.

[Orion]

My sisters got laptops with roughly 1gb of RAM and they don't seem to have any problems. I heard you need 500mb to run Vista, not 1gb like someone mentioned earlier.

If you want to run anything else besides Vista, it's definitely recommended to have more than 512mb of RAM.

[Waffuru]

8gb of RAM would let me turn off my paging file and would increase system performance.

Although, the best upgrade I could make right now is moving the Operating System to a Solid State Disk. It is a hard drive that uses memory banks instead of a platter and can read data about 20 times faster than your standard platter drive.

Unfortunately, they're both small in capacity and expensive. A 64gb SSD is going to cost you over $1,000 USD.

[Bojack]

PWND

Dell is having a deal on the Vostro this week, so I'm only going to be paying about 850 for a 2.4 GHZ C2D, 8600GT, and I might go with 3 gigs of RAM instead of 2. YAYAAYAYAAYAY.

[Waffuru]

Eww a Dell. =(

I hope you don't have any problems with it, their support is known for not knowing anything.

[Bojack]

Dell = ftl.

A system like that for under 900 = ftw.

[Saz]

You lucky son of a bitch.

I wish I knew a few things about graphics cards before I got this laptop, now I'm stuck with this sucky NVIDIA Geforce 7150. ;[

[Bojack]

And I'm used to having to figure out what's wrong with my computer all by myself. =(

What did you get?