[Shop-talk] New PC (was Dead PC)

[Wayne]

Wow, surprised to hear so much animosity towards Dell. Sorry if I gave 
bad advice; but I've only had good experience with them. Guess I need to 
give Win 7 more of a test drive (oh shoot, 8 is out now or soon,) It was 
doggy slow when I used it, but that was on a little HP netbook and 
another laptop, neither of which were high end to begin with. I do still 
like Win XP, and have boxes running it that stay up for months between 
reboots. Killing the unneeded services and other tweaks make it run 
excellently for me. Tho' I do use Linux to backup and load it... hmm.
   -w

On 8/20/2012 11:05 AM, Karl Vacek wrote:
> Amen on both avoiding Dell and kudos to Lenovo.  Dell USED to be great, but
> they've cheapened beyond acceptability in random areas, plus having moved
> their support to India.  Unfortunately, HP cheapened their stuff beyond
> acceptability long ago too, and like Dell, so much is proprietary.
>
> I was given a year-old Lenovo ThinkPad a few years ago - it's a well-built
> unit, and once I maxed out the RAM to 4 GB, put in a fast 500GB HDD, and
> Win7 Pro, it still flies.  Unlike Wayne, I really like Win7, though I
> skipped over Vista.  I've installed it on quite a few clients' older XP
> machines, most with RAM upgrades (though as noted DDR2 is expensive) and a
> new HDD for insurance, and even with minimal RAM (1-2 GB) it runs much
> faster with none of XP's blue screens of death or "what the heck is it
> doing" stalls.
>
> Karl