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[Del Boy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

[Chopsdad]

Sorry to hear you're having problems with your little thing Liam  

[Del Boy]

Sorry to hear you're having problems with your little thing Liam  

I walked into that didn't i  

[TheBoy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its shit

[Chopsdad]

Sorry to hear you're having problems with your little thing Liam  

I walked into that didn't i  

Yup  

[Del Boy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its ...sugar

And it's a new OS from Microsoft so they sell it to us we tell them the probs and do there jobs for em

[tunnie]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its shit

My Sony Vaio is 3.5 years old now, been very reliable.

However I will be replacing it with a Apple MacBook....

[TheBoy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its ...sugar

And it's a new OS from Microsoft so they sell it to us we tell them the probs and do there jobs for em

I disagree. Vista has had the largest open beta of any OS.  The RTM is very stable.

[TheBoy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its shit

My Sony Vaio is 3.5 years old now, been very reliable.

If you want to borrow Sammy, I'll have another look for it...

[Del Boy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its ...sugar

And it's a new OS from Microsoft so they sell it to us we tell them the probs and do there jobs for em

I disagree. Vista has had the largest open beta of any OS.  The RTM is very stable.

But it don't work properly  

[TheBoy]

God guys listen wait until you get vista wait until christmas or maybe longer because the trouble this has caused you wouldn't believe   by the way this laptop
http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=374385

Sony, therefore its ...sugar

And it's a new OS from Microsoft so they sell it to us we tell them the probs and do there jobs for em

I disagree. Vista has had the largest open beta of any OS.  The RTM is very stable.

But it don't work properly  

I've yet to find a part of it that doesn't work as specified. Can't speak for the Sony build though - thats bound to be poor.

[Del Boy]

Yeah 3 people in our office got a new vista business laptop and we gave the laptops we got just before christmas back for the vista one's we had the choice to keep the old one's and i wish i had and so do the others as they have had probs also but they both have HP so we won't even go there

[TheBoy]

Yeah 3 people in our office got a new vista business laptop and we gave the laptops we got just before christmas back for the vista one's we had the choice to keep the old one's and i wish i had and so do the others as they have had probs also but they both have HP so we won't even go there

What problems? I have yet to come across anything in the OS that doesn't work as specified...

[MaxV6]

you DO realise that for that money you could buy a Macbook, with a PROPER operating system, AND the choice to run Whinedoze if you really need to.

and they work.......  

runs and gets nomex suit out of cupboard under the stairs and dives underneath the nearest bbq for cover


http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=E677EA3F&nclm=Certified

[Paul M]

I have to admit, since getting Vista Business (free via MSDN for training/testing/development etc only, I sure as hell wouldn't be buying it) it's actually been surprisingly pleasant. A *lot* of improvements over XP (mainly because XP had so many stupid design decisions to begin with), perfect example being that if you type a web address into an explorer window it now opens the web page in your default browser -- in my case Firefox. The new interface is also reasonably usable, if you switch back to classic start menu and classic view for things like the control panel. Compare that with XP's Luna which had me running back to classic theme within minutes. I also like the way it automatically asks for authentication as required, rather than having to use secondary logon (run as...) all the time -- as *nix and OS X have been doing for ages.

I was very surprised to discover they've omitted a lot of the guff that used to be very difficult to remove, for example messenger isn't actually installed and instead the link in the start menu takes you to a download page.

One caveat is that they've changed the authentication standard for SMB/CIFS which now defaults to NTLMv2, causing my samba shares to fail inexplicably. All that was required to fix that one was a group policy object change allowing auto negotiation of both NTLMv1 and v2, but it wasn't exactly obvious. For those of you interested -- read more here.

Saying that I'm posting this from OS X 10.4.8 -- go figure