XP or Vista on a laptop?

[latino]

I have been looking at the dell website for a decently priced laptop (Inspiron 15) to use while I am on the road mainly for sorting out the pics and deleted the crap ones and maybe some minor PP work.

The laptops come with Vista premium, will this be good enough for my purpose of is vista a complete dog?? I've always used XP but they are not available anymore only on business laptops.

Cheers

[pgbphotographytas]

I have been looking at the dell website for a decently priced laptop (Inspiron 15) to use while I am on the road mainly for sorting out the pics and deleted the crap ones and maybe some minor PP work.

The laptops come with Vista premium, will this be good enough for my purpose of is vista a complete dog?? I've always used XP but they are not available anymore only on business laptops.

Cheers

Vista should be fine as long as you turn off most of the "eye candy"

[latino]

Vista should be fine as long as you turn off most of the "eye candy"

Pardon my ignorance but could you explain the eye candy your talking about?

Cheers

[pgbphotographytas]

Pardon my ignorance but could you explain the eye candy your talking about?

Cheers

Sorry, basically you can turn off the nice effects that look cool but slow down Vista very badly.
If you right click on my computer, properties, advanced system settings, performance and then select "Adjust for best performance" that will make a difference.

[hoffy]

I also believe that there is no reason why you can't buy the small business laptops. They tend to come with less bloatware (I.E., the trial versions of software that you probably don't want anyway)

[Kym]

Pardon my ignorance but could you explain the eye candy your talking about?
Cheers

Aero I think.

[Kym]

For reasons that are complex I've switched to Vista (Enterprise) at work on my notebook.
Running ok, some things better than XP some slower.
I will be going to Win7 ASAP via MSDN (hopefully in the next few weeks).
MSDN get Win7 soon after RTM; but the rest must wait till october 22nd.

[ch00su]

G'day everyone. First post...

Windows 7 works a treat otherwise go with Ubuntu

My first choice would be OS X, however, Windows 7, I dare say, is equally as good in terms of stability and speed. I think MS did a pretty good job this time.
You can download it for free from MS site and use it until March or May next year and when it expires pay for the upgrade which, rumour has it, will be around U$50.
Just get a laptop with dedicated graphics card if you wanna use CS4 and video processing.

Cheers,

Young.

[Kym]

G'day everyone. First post...
My first choice would be OS X, however, Windows 7, I dare say, is equally as good in terms of stability and speed. I think MS did a pretty good job this time.
You can download it for free from MS site and use it until March or May next year and when it expires pay for the upgrade which, rumour has it, will be around U$50.
Just get a laptop with dedicated graphics card if you wanna use CS4 and video processing.
Cheers,
Young.

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