Windows Vista

Rainband · #1 Postby **Rainband** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:41 pm

I am getting a new Dell and I am wondering what you all think of Vista???

#2 Postby **JonathanBelles** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:46 pm

When I get the money I will be upgrading. I have worked with it at school and at local libraries and like it very well.

mf_dolphin · #3 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:53 pm

Whatever you do stay away from Vista Home Basic. It's Windows ME all over again and that was the worst piece of###### Microsoft ever pushed on the world. I run Vista Business at work and it's OK. Nothing special but it's not like we have much of a choice :-)

Make sure and get plenty of RAM ( 2 GB minimum) in the new PC and a high end video card.

Rainband · #4 Postby **Rainband** » Mon May 14, 2007 8:57 pm

Module Description Show Details
Dimension E520 Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 (1.8GHz, 800 FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
Monitor 17 inch E177FP Analog Flat Panel
Video Cards Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3000
Hard Drives 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Mouse included in Wireless, Laser or Bluetooth Package
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
CD or DVD Drive 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Bundle Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
Security Software No Security Subscription (Norton 30-day)
Warranty and Service 1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor - Next Business Day*
Internet Access Service 6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
Dell Digital Entertainment Starter pack - Yahoo! Music, Corel Photo and Dell Games
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium

This is what I was going to get Marshall

Rainband · #5 Postby **Rainband** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:00 pm

Or

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

Dimension E521 Qty 1
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+, Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Unit Price $999.00
Dell Home Customers: Save $150 on this Dell E521 System!
Limited Time Offer! View Details
- $150.00
Catalog Number: 29 DDCWBC3
Module Description Show Details
Dell Dimension E521 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Memory 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
Monitor 20 inch E207WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU
Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Mouse included in Wireless, Laser or Bluetooth Package
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
CD ROM/DVD ROM 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
Security Software No Security Subscription (Norton 30-day)
Warranty and Service 1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor - Next Business Day*
Internet Access Service 6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
Dell Digital Entertainment Starter pack - Yahoo! Music, Corel Photo and Dell Games
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium

mf_dolphin · #6 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:01 pm

I would spend a little more and upgrade the memory to 2GB and go for a better video card. :-)

Rainband · #7 Postby **Rainband** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:22 pm

Dell Dimension E521 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
Monitor 17 inch E177FP Analog Flat Panel
Video Card 256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Mouse included in Wireless, Laser or Bluetooth Package
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
CD ROM/DVD ROM 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Office Productivity Software (Pre-Installed) Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
Security Software No Security Subscription (Norton 30-day)
Warranty and Service 1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor - Next Business Day*
Internet Access Service 6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
Dell Digital Entertainment Starter pack - Yahoo! Music, Corel Photo and Dell Games
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium
TOTAL:$909.00
Dell Dimension E520
Date & Time: May 14,2007 9:19 PM CST

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

Dell Dimension E520 Qty 1
Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB), Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium Unit Price $1,079.00
Dell Home Customers: Save $150 instant off on this Dell Dimension E520!
Limited Time Offer! View Details
- $150.00
Catalog Number: 29 DDCWAA3
Module Description Show Details
Dimension E520 Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Memory 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
Keyboard Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
Monitor 17 inch E177FP Analog Flat Panel
Video Cards 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
Hard Drives 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Floppy Drive and Media Reader No Floppy Drive Included
Mouse Mouse included in Wireless, Laser or Bluetooth Package
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Modem 56K PCI Data Fax Modem
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 7.0
CD or DVD Drive 48X CD-RW/ DVD Combo Drive
Sound Cards Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Speakers No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system)
Bundle Microsoft Works 8. DOES NOT INCLUDE MS WORD
Security Software No Security Subscription (Norton 30-day)
Warranty and Service 1Yr In-Home Service, Parts + Labor - Next Business Day*
Internet Access Service 6 Months of America Online Membership Included
Miscellaneous Award Winning Service and Support
Dell Digital Entertainment Starter pack - Yahoo! Music, Corel Photo and Dell Games
Labels Windows Vista™ Premium

Ok which one???

mf_dolphin · #8 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:49 pm

Either of those will be fine. I'm an Intel bigot so I would lean that way but the Athlon is a good processor as well :-)

MomH · #9 Postby **MomH** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:56 pm

I know little about computers but I have the new Vista Home Basic Premium. I like it but for one thing. It has a problem with Java and I kept getting a message that it no longer supported it. This is the site they send you to. It might give you more info that I don't really understand.

http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/java/

Rainband · #10 Postby **Rainband** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:06 pm

mf_dolphin wrote:Either of those will be fine. I'm an Intel bigot so I would lean that way but the Athlon is a good processor as well

I heard amd athlon was better?????

CajunMama · #11 Postby **CajunMama** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:48 pm

Brent has a new laptop that came with Vista and i believe he likes it.

Rainband · #12 Postby **Rainband** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:08 pm

Thanks Kathy.

AussieMark · #13 Postby **AussieMark** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:34 am

the main issue with Vista I have heard is driver support for older hardware.

but since your computer will come with it you will be fine

Meso · #14 Postby **Meso** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:05 am

Athlon and Intel differ in what you want the computer for.AMD's are good for gaming and things,AMD's do run rather warm though.It's mainly just personal preference.I know lots of people who were happy with their Intel and others that preferred AMD. As for Vista,it's an evil marketing scheme,how they're only releasing the new Direct X for Vista,so if one is a gamer or uses Direct X software they will eventually need to get vista.But Vista needs an insanely high amount of RAM and other hardware requirements.And the software and hardware support isn't great yet,due to lack of correct support and drivers.Can't say that I wouldn't install it if I had the right requirements though.

#15 Postby **O Town** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:44 am

We got a new Dell around Christmas and it came with a Vista Upgrade at the first of this year. We got the software in the mail months ago and have yet to install it.
Not only will you have to worry about all your hardware being compatible but also any software you have. My uncle got Vista and can't use any of his picture editing software and its only about 2 years old. So I was scared to install it fearing I will have to replace all my programs and our 2 YO HP-all in one printer. My husband also went to different web sites reading new Vista user comments and reviews and there were more negative than positive. I haven't heard any good things about Vista at all. I think the only good feedback I have heard was from Brent. I am kinda glad you started this thread though because I want to hear other peoples opinions from here as well. I would love to use our new software but Im scared to install it because of all the 'bad talk'. I guess I will sit on it for a while or so until they come out with something better. I would research it some more online before you buy.

Kelarie · #16 Postby **Kelarie** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:19 am

Vista is Mac for Windows. For me the best OS that Microsoft ever put out was XP. Vista is okay, but takes alot to run it. Go XP.

lurkey · #17 Postby **lurkey** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:26 am

Kelarie wrote:Vista is Mac for Windows. For me the best OS that Microsoft ever put out was XP. Vista is okay, but takes alot to run it. Go XP.

Mac for Windows?? Based on what I have heard about Vista: Vista may "borrowed" a lot from OS X, but OS X is better than Vista. I will agree with you on XP though. I use on Parallels (VM machine) on my laptop and at work. Never had too much trouble with it. It doesn't have the fancy eye candy of Vista, but it works.

#18 Postby **Canelaw99** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:05 am

I was very anti-Vista until I finally had enough of my low RAM old laptop and broke down and bought a new HP notebook. The one I got has 2 GB ram, and 1.63 Gh processor, with Vista Home Premium. Honestly, I haven't had any issues with software, except PC Anywhere that I used to use for work (I just use go to my PC now). I've gotten used to Vista, and think it's pretty good now. I can also tell it's much easier to start out with a new comp. that has Vista than it is to upgrade an existing comp. We upgraded one of my mom's laptops to Vista and it was such a pain to find the old documents that were on the comp., etc.

Basically, as long as you have enough RAM, Vista won't be that bad for ya....

Website · #19 Postby **Brent** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:12 am

I have had no problems with it(I have Home Premium actually), I've had it for 3 1/2 months now(I got a new laptop with it the day Vista came out!). . I only have 1 GB of RAM on this and have had no issues, although most of what I do is just surfing(a lot, lol) and a little editing on Movie Maker.

Rainband · #20 Postby **Rainband** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:59 am

Thats what I was thinking if I get 1Gb of ram that should be enough. I am stuck between the intel and the amd though and what size processor. All I do is surf??

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