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Tim, just recently I saw a report that there is more power in today's cell phones than what were on board Appolo's computers at that time...WOW

Jeff -

Sorry 640GB of Hard Drive. It said 640, but I think it's two 320's.

My first HD was 20mb. What's happenning?


Sam

Jeff, 640GB is a perfectly logical drive size... plus it's showed up in my daily newegg spam a few times.

Yeah, it is likely to have two 320GB hard drives...that's a fairly common size today.

It's not a rumor. OS development never stops at Microsoft, nor are they working on a single OS at any one time.
Windows 7 (tentative name given by Microsoft) is due 1st half of 2010. Select customers and software vendors have been doing pre-"alpha" testing for some time now. IE 8 will come first, though.

well, yes and no. they originally started on Longhorn (Vista's code name) before XP was released and it was supposed to be a stopgap release until the Next Big Thing. over the next couple years, Longhorn picked up most of the features originally planned for the NBT and began to be intended to actually be that NBT. development dragged on and on and gradually a lot of those cool new features had to be scrapped in order to get Vista completed.

the end result is a prettier, more stable version of XP. with a ton of bloat.

then again, when it came out XP seemed quite bloated compared to 2000, which seemed like a slower version of NT 4.0... and so on. hey, if you don't need Plug & Pray or Direct X, NT 3.51 is a screamer! =)

i do it all the time and it's really not hard at all - takes under an hour with a standard install CD, less with a slipstreamed install CD. the only snag you're likely to hit is if you can't find XP drivers, but that doesn't happen very often on desktops and only a bit more often on laptops. we charge $150 to do it.

then again, that problem is only going to get more and more common as time goes on..

there are a few out there - Seagate and WD both make 'em, i'm not sure who else does. they're usually 2-platter designs and are very, very fast.

oops, forgot to add... we bought a Vista machine as soon as it was released for our test bench because we knew we'd have to support it and didn't want to be learning it in front of a customer.

we've used it with a wide variety of applications and games and i've got to say i don't understand what all the fuss is about. people act like it's functionally broken but i haven't had any trouble with it at all. it's got a few quirks, but no more than XP did for the first year or two..

one day we did manage to mangle the network stack badly enough to require a re-install, but it took a lot of intentional d.cking around to do that.

I've used Vista Ultimate (32 & 64) continuously since beta 1, and have had no problems whatsoever. It needs a lot of hardware. It also takes learning. As a complicated system it has to be treated with respect. Unlike the Mac, whose developers are almost always better disciplined (being in their vast majority, sub-units of large companies) and Linux (which operates with different licenses and is a much more "buyer beware" platform), there's a lot of crapware from small companies out there.
The Vista APIs (the "hooks" that software vendors use to design compatible software) are NOT for the lazy, or the occasional player. Balance this with the desire to have a "Vista Product" on the market, and the stress on the software testing labs which are bound to let substandard software slip through.