Bob Ayers
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- Durham, NC
- Vehicle Year
- 1999
- Make / Model
- Ranger
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- Automatic
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Vista is pita JUNK. DO NOT buy Vista! If you're buying a new pc instead of building it like you should....go to the business section (not the home consumer) of the computer vendor's site and you'll find the option for XP there, not just VISTA. If you don't find the XP option, run to another vendor! Stick with XP preferably the Professional version...it works pretty well, is proven, drivers for most everything are compatible with it, uses way less ramm, I could go on and on. 2000 Professional was very stable and dependable and I stuck with that until just recently. I'll be sticking with XP for alot longer.all vista is or a new look. Something that looks pretty. XP is still going to beat out vista I say. Thats why all computer sites like dell, sony, ect put xp back in because nobody wants vista. sp3 will be out shortly to for xp and its supposed to increase speed a lot from what ive read. Il be sticking with xp for a while longer.
My first computer I bought new (my wife did, I had never used a computer before) in 1995--I still have it. It was a Pentium 75 Packard Bell with maybe 4Mb Ram. It's now sporting a 200Mhz MMX overdrive processor and 120Mb ram with the video memory upgraded with 2 weird 500K chips to 2Mb. I bought it with 3.1 on it, upgraded to 95, then to 98. It was running poorly by then with what we were using it for, so I bought a Compaq--which died in three years. Then I used a couple laptops. Then I got Windows XP. For grins, I put XP on the old PB and you know what? It's useable. When this POS Toshiba takes it's semi-annual vacation to the service depot, I use my 12 y/o Packard Bell--it's fine if you aren't folding DNA. XP is by far the best Windows system so far. A lot of the old sotgware won't work with it, but it does a damn good job without needing vendor software.My first PC ran DOS 3.1 on a 80x88 Tandy 1000. Talk about slow! I rocked a 486 25mhz for a long time when I was a kid, slowly moved up. I think I paid $100 for 4mb (might have been 8) of memory at some point to run the first Need for Speed demo. I remember being reluctant to upgrade to Win95 for the longest time.
Now I am CHEAP when it comes to PCs. My current PC was used, I paid $100, but it's a 1.4GZ, 512MB DDR of ram, 60GB HDD, 128MB ATI video, etc. My last PC was a Duron 1.1GZ, 394MB SDRam, 128MB GeForce, etc. Huge improvement... I just cobble parts together for the best machine I can build out of what I have availiable. I couldn't see my self buying a brand new machine, it will be obsolete as soon as I get it out of the door. Computer parts loose value worse than cars.