Does Dell hate Microsoft? Yes, Vista sucks ass!
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| Look what has been found on the Dell's web site, very promising!
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http://hakeris.co.uk/Does_Dell_hate_Microsoft?
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Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| remote control."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
PC Makers Hedge on Vista Effect
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| PC makers love to talk about the excitement surrounding Microsoft's
| new operating system. But their actions tell a slightly different
| story.
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| More than a month after Vista's long-awaited release, some PC
| makers appear in no hurry to retire from their product catalog
| computers running the old Windows XP.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/businessnews/10344543.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA
http://tinyurl.com/33azf7
No Windows Vista boom expected, say Taiwan PC and motherboard makers
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| Leading Taiwanese makers of PCs and motherboards generally think
| Microsoft's global launch of two home-use editions of its Windows
| Vista operating system, Home Basic and Home Premium, on January 30,
| will not substantially boost replacement of PCs and motherboards
| until the second half of this year, according to industry sources.
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http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070116PD202.html
Vista Runs Smooth Only on 2G Memory
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| However, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins suggested otherwise on Thursday, 26 Oct at
| a speech at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. "I think they tell you maybe 1
| gig of memory is OK. No, two gigs of memory would be great."
|
| This echoes with my own experience with Vista RC2. With only 1G of
| RAM, there are many disk activities indicating heavy disk swap, a
| symptom of lack of memory in the system.
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http://www.itechnote.com/2006/10/27/vista-runs-smooth-only-on-2g-memory/
Vista driver issues keep Dell Blu-ray laptop on WinXP
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| Dell's XPS M1710 notebook with a Blu-ray disc player is stuck on Windows XP
| until driver issues can be worked out, according to a Dell representative.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10792_3-6161548.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Dell's "Express Upgrade" to Vista not so "express"
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| Dell-using Vista hopefuls are expressing their frustration at
| Dell's continued delays and problems with their Vista upgrades.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/12/dells-express-upgrade-to-vista-not-so-express/
Dell Plays Hide-and-Seek with Vista PCs
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| I never thought I would be saying this, but I think we have a
| Vista OEM distributor giving Microsoft the shaft. Who would
| that be you ask? Why, none other than Dell.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2478
At Dell, Windows XP Home is $19 less than worthless
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| Latitude D520N Duo (with FreeDOS): $984
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| Latitude D520 Dual Core (with Windows XP Home Edition SP2): $965
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http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/02/21/dell-winxphome-19-less-than-worthless/
Limited choices for Windows XP holdouts
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| Despite words of caution from some in the tech industry that it's too
| early to make the switch to Microsoft's Windows Vista, many PC
| shoppers have no choice.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6161250.html
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