Digital BW, The Print

One leaked Best Buy memo "puts a date on when people can start buying
Vista-based machines and qualify for a free upgrade to Windows 7. According
to the memo, June 26 is the magic date--and I'm hearing that date is
correct."

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10258259-56.html?tag=mncol;posts

 

I'll echo that 64 bit Vista would be the way to go now, with hardware
supporting well over the 4 GB limit in 32 bit OS's.  That's not exotic or
high end like it might've been a year or 2 ago.  You'll do better on the
computing power per dollar with a desktop over a laptop.  Not that I'm not
pleased with my T400 Thinkpad --  T9600 CPU with 4 GB now.  Maxing it to 8
GB requires RAM that's still quite expensive and disk drive performance is a
weak point in laptops. 

 

Bob

 

 

 

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If you can wait Windows 7 will be released in October. If you buy a Vista PC
before Windows 7 is released, Microsoft may provide a free or low cost
upgrade from Vista to 7. The cutoff date has not been firmed up but probably
after July 1 will get you the free upgrade.

I just bought a custom built PC on EBAy - Intel i7 940, 12 meg RAM, RAID 0
15000 RPM drives, eVGA GTX 285 PCIe video for $1900 including Vista Ultimate
64 bit.

If you can afford it, go with a 64 bit capable system with at least 6 meg or
more RAM

 



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