Need some computer help

[Sparrow]

Sorry to hear that Reaver, feel for you.
I read that Vista greatly degrades perfomance because of copyright and content protection features. Also all hardware drivers have to be rewritten for vista and authorized by microsoft.

Somewhen in the future there will be no way getting around this, early adaption has always been a bad choice when it comes to MS.

[Reaver]

Yeah it's not quite as bad as I probably make it sound, but it really sucks.

I am going with a mac next time no doubt. Microsoft is a bunch of thieves in my opinion....meaning that they force you to use their products and they steal your data BIG TIME. It has gotten out of hand in recent years...okay that's my rant.

[MC]

	Quote:	Reaver
	My prpblem is that I bought a computer fairly recently and it came with Vista preinstalled....bad move. Too many bugs..it may be good once they get the kinks worked out..but until then..XP is good enough.

Most computer builders sell a "downgrade" kit for like $20. It's a cd with Windows xp so you can roll back to windows xp.
You would get that via the maker of your computer if you wanted to do it.

I support macs and pc's so I know both sides. I LOVE the macs but they are more $ and some software isn't mac compatible. Of course you can run virtualization software like vmware fusion or parallels to run windows on the newer intel macs. I wanted a 17" macbook pro soooo bad but it cost 3x what my HP 17" was.

[Reaver]

Thanks for that info...I am gonna look into that.