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Re: Vista - Why so many flavors?

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Originally Posted by eshteyn View Post
P.S. If you may be thinking of getting a new machine, never ever ever go with Dell, in the two years ive been a technician i have seen hundreds of blown out dell motherboards and other computer components. I suggest a custom built PC, Gateway, or HP. (stay away from Sony like the plague)
I also have to agree with Cory on that. All computers are just as reliable as the next, except for Gateway(brand new and has bad cd drive, you have to slam it to close it). It just depends on how people take care of it. A lot of people buy Dells, so chances are there will be a higher number of people with problems. I have a Dell that my dad got from work for free, they were upgrading, and it is a P3. I'm not sure what year though, but it still works great. I also have a 2001 Sony laptop, only problem was the floppy drive and warranty covered it, so I'm happy. The only thing I upgraded was hard disk for more storage. Few of my friends have gotten HPs and they love them. I have a custom built PC that I put about $1000 total into now, I recently upgraded the PSU to 650W because hot weather melted the old 500W.

But back to the OS. I have been a PC guy, and I'm not really a fan of Vista. I was thinking about getting a Sony SZ laptop as my next computer, but the more I work with Vista, the more I hate it. Probably because I used it mostly on the team laptop, which is a Gateway *cough*. Using Vista on my friends' HPs though, I didn't really have a problem, just takes some getting used to. Hanging around the Apple Store more though, I'm beginning to consider a Macbook or Macbook Pro and doing bootcamp.

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