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Re: Vista - Why so many flavors?

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
I'd suggest the opposite...my family has owned 4 dell computers since about 1999 or so.

We've had I think two major problems the entire time. One was that our newest was DOA. The first one we purchased would randomly die every hour or so.

Both times they shipped us brand new computers within 48 hours. You can't beat service like that.
You have had good experience with Dell service, I have only had the worst, maybe their service has changed since then but my experience with dell was them asking for 300 dollars to pay for a new motherboard to correct the problem of a on-board network card not working properly, all that was needed was a driver (the user deleted it by accident). This was not a one time occurrence, this happened with various components inside the machine. As for my comment about Sony, older models are great, I cant argue with that, however the newer models have a very bad habit of overheating and shutting down constantly.

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Anyway, the point of this thread has nothing to do with hardware, just Vista. Vista doesn't fry PCs. Vista doesn't get corrupted like XP does.
If you're buying a new machine, get Vista.
Believe me I have sampled every version of vista on my test machine (core 2 duo 6700, asus sli mobo, 512 mb nvidia video card, 4 gigs of ram) Vista crashes more than XP, has more system errors than XP, and more hdd read-write errors than XP.

I do have to say though, the blue screen of death is prettier :-)
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