Xp & Sp3 & Rdp

[_Iz-]

During one of my rare visits to the office this month, my boss looked at the yellowing keyboard and worn out plastic on my circa 2005 Compaq and said "How about we go get you a new laptop?".

He said this the way you may say "Lets go to the toy store" to a four year old. He was flabbergasted when I said "Umm no thanks. I like this one" (I am known as a major tech whore in my company).

I am going to try to skip Vista entirely. I'm hoping MS learned their lesson and will make the next version much more XP like. I just don't have the time to learn a new OS at the moment. I'm also used to using XP on a 3Ghz machine. Every Vista machine I have touched has felt intolerably slow (including a dual core machine maxed out on RAM).

ARE YOU CRAZY!!! Take the new machine, wipe it and put XP on it...

[steeb]

I'm checking out the threads at the moment on my new Vista laptop.

Much prefer XP, having all sorts of weird problems accessing my Workgroup PC's/NAS etc with Vista.

Think where possible I'll stick with XP and hope the new/post Vista O/S is more friendly

Steeb

[_Iz-]

My new laptop came with Vista. I tolerated it for awhile to see if I could get used to it. I find it really "dumbed down", they've gone out of their way to hide everything a power user is accustomed to accessing. I had to dig deep for everything I needed. So between that and the constant nagging everytime I tried to change a system setting I threw in the towel and went back to XP.