Thread: Vista

Yeah mate, I am an exserviceman pensioner, and S3 owner, I know the fiduciary tights.
Bit lucky in some respects. Made friends with, and did a favour or two for my local IT bloke. Get my bits at cost, and build the machines myself, even my copy of XP Pro Corporate is a freebie, because I do network research for the local bloke.
That is how I was able to help NM out with a slightly faster machine. And if anyone else is still struggling with a pre 1Gig machine, I may be able to help. We get the odd no value trade, they are usually stripped and junked. Can't sell them, too slow for the kids to play games, but great machines for internet and real computing.

Shorty.

Originally Posted by Bytemrk

Anyone that says Vista is another ME..either hasn't really looked at it - or doesn't know what they are talking about.

Mark

So my late friend with 2 degrees in computer science doesn't know what he is talking about? Right Mark! Lets meet some where.

Shorty.

Pedro just told me off, for not playing nice. So I have edited this post. Mark you want to talk?

Originally Posted by incisor

hmmm off to find the flame proof suit again...

Well you will be a heat seaker...

But on this occasion, I'd have to agree, as a Microsoft Partner we get all the new crap fairly early. My initial impression was hide it from my kids so they dont do the "ohhh Vista, I want I want" pffft dam children, they never say that about my Land Rover.

Best regards
DarrenR

ok - came home and found the PC had been fried by a lightning strike... bought more or less a whole new pc (everthing except DVD writer, case and a pair of 300gb hard drives was replaced).

installed vista home premium - everything works no problem... almost!
nvidia drivers tell me i can't install the vista drivers as i don't have vista installed?? stuck with generic videocard drivers until it's updated me thinks.. and the webcam is not being recognised properly. everything else is great

no faults at all... and it's very PACY! but then I've got 2gb of ram, a 10k 75gb hard drive for the system and programs and dual core 6600 CPU

Hey EchiDna, do you know a cheap place to pick up 10K rpm 75GB SATAII drives from?

I'm in singapore and bought retail from sim lim square... the western digital i bought (16mb cache, SATA II) cost about A$210 - much more expensive per gb than regular drives...

jump on a cheap tiger airways flight from darwin to singapore and pop by

running bigpond broadband on an OSX Mac right now....... seems to work okay...

Couldn't be bothered with Vista.

Anyone want a year old Acer Wintel laptop?

It will go soon in favour of a new Mac laptop......GQ

Given they're about AU$250 for a 75GB Raptor drive here I think I'll be picking up a couple of them next time I go though Singapore.

I notice they also have a 150GB Raptor out now but it's about AU$380.