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Subject: [OM] Re: Laptop vs Desktop
From: "Sandy Harris" <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:52:05 +0800
On Nov 16, 2007 1:00 AM, Jez Cunningham <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It's getting close to the time that my trusty (crusty?) old computer needs
> to be replaced.  This old dog isn't going to learn Mac but will probably
> have to get used to Vista - ...

> So I've been perusing what's out there and ended up looking at Dell (again):

Dell will provide XP instead of Vista if you you ask. This may be preferable.

There's a good article on the extra overheads in Vista, from a well-known
security expert, here:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

-- 
Sandy Harris,
Nanjing, China

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