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Posted by Geoman on June 21, 2007, 7:59 am
WOW, thanks for sharing about downgrading to XP!
I like Toshiba and Sony. Mark (GeoJr) is really good with computers, I would
defiantly let him take charge in that department!
Jake, As to downgrading, did you do a low level format your hardrive or just
erase everything?
> Geoman wrote:
>> My last daughter goes to college this August, and to be honest, I might
>> recommend to her to use XP Pro over the new Vista rubbish.
>>
>> http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/29/six-good-reasons-not-to-upgrade-to-vista/
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=problems+with+Vista
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>> Anyone have Vista and if so, are these articles in Computer PC and others
>> correct? Gates is in cahoots with the government for sure.
>>
>> Rich
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>>
>
> Rich,
>
> I have a month old Toshiba laptop that came with Vista... no other choice.
>
> It was a piece of crap. The wireless connections would drop for no reason,
> it would crash every 17 minutes due to a time synchronization problem, and
> many drivers won't work with it.
>
> I wiped it and put XP pro on... which was a chore all by itself. Toshiba
> does not support this and there are whole websites set up to council
> people trying to "downgrade" Tosh laptops back to XP.
>
> If you can find one, buy a laptop with XP installed. I think Toshiba makes
> the best laptops around... but this experience pissed me off.
>
> Jake
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