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houltmac · 06-06-2008

@Perpetualskeptic: I have tried Crossover, however only for productivity apps and the like. It didn't work well, if at all, and not much seems to be supported. I think the idea is fantastic, but the right team to pull it off is already working hard on Parallels and Fusion.

soapyfish · 06-19-2008

Gah! My house is no longer Vista free, we had an older XP machine that was used mostly for web surfing by my mum and brother since I switched to OS X but that farted a while back and decided it didn't want to work anymore.

I finally got fed up of people asking to borrow my laptop to go on the internet (I've no problem with people using it but they would always ask JUST as I had picked it up to use myself) so I popped over the eBuyer and picked up a £140 Vista machine.
Acer Extensa E210 Desktop, Amd Sempron 3800+ 2.2ghz 512mb 160gb Ati Radeon X1200 Graphics Hdd, Dvd-rw Drive, 5in1 Card Reader, Keyboard & Mouse Vista Home Basic - Ebuyer

To be fair, for £140 (£160 when I'd stuck another gig of ram in) it works fine and at that price I wasn't paying £80 to downgrade to XP Pro. Vista is certainly not as hassle-free as OS X but there's not much that kind of money can buy you computer-wise these days, certainly not for a brand new system.

I did have a quick scout around on eBay for a second hand imac g3 to possibly fill the gap but I'm not regretting going the route I chose......... yet.

philbowell · 06-20-2008

£140 for a laptop?!?! Sheesh, I hadn't realised Windoze machines could be so cheap!

**Yuiichi** · 06-20-2008

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Originally Posted by philbowell

£140 for a laptop?!?! Sheesh, I hadn't realised Windoze machines could be so cheap!

Actually, that's a desktop

But ... eh ... I wish you luck with that, soapy. I've heard nothing but bad things about Acer computers, but mostly laptops. Hope you don't have any issues with it!

philbowell · 06-20-2008

I should probably click links.

houltmac · 06-21-2008

Man, how does Vista run on that thing? I had a Dell in my workshop the other week with as .4GHz C2D, RAID 0 and 2GB RAM... ran like a slug.

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houltmac Mac Genius Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,121	@Perpetualskeptic: I have tried Crossover, however only for productivity apps and the like. It didn't work well, if at all, and not much seems to be supported. I think the idea is fantastic, but the right team to pull it off is already working hard on Parallels and Fusion. __________________ MacBook Pro 15", 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 320B 7200rpm HD \| iPhone 3G 16GB (Black)

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philbowell Mac Genius Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Over the road from the Queen, UK Posts: 952	£140 for a laptop?!?! Sheesh, I hadn't realised Windoze machines could be so cheap! __________________ My Mac's: 20" iMac Core Duo with 2gb RAM; 14" iBook G4 My Blog

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philbowell Mac Genius Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Over the road from the Queen, UK Posts: 952	I should probably click links. __________________ My Mac's: 20" iMac Core Duo with 2gb RAM; 14" iBook G4 My Blog

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houltmac Mac Genius Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,121	Man, how does Vista run on that thing? I had a Dell in my workshop the other week with as .4GHz C2D, RAID 0 and 2GB RAM... ran like a slug. __________________ MacBook Pro 15", 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 320B 7200rpm HD \| iPhone 3G 16GB (Black)

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06-19-2008	#12 (permalink)
soapyfish Cashier Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Yorkshire, England Posts: 23	Gah! My house is no longer Vista free, we had an older XP machine that was used mostly for web surfing by my mum and brother since I switched to OS X but that farted a while back and decided it didn't want to work anymore. I finally got fed up of people asking to borrow my laptop to go on the internet (I've no problem with people using it but they would always ask JUST as I had picked it up to use myself) so I popped over the eBuyer and picked up a £140 Vista machine. Acer Extensa E210 Desktop, Amd Sempron 3800+ 2.2ghz 512mb 160gb Ati Radeon X1200 Graphics Hdd, Dvd-rw Drive, 5in1 Card Reader, Keyboard & Mouse Vista Home Basic - Ebuyer To be fair, for £140 (£160 when I'd stuck another gig of ram in) it works fine and at that price I wasn't paying £80 to downgrade to XP Pro. Vista is certainly not as hassle-free as OS X but there's not much that kind of money can buy you computer-wise these days, certainly not for a brand new system. I did have a quick scout around on eBay for a second hand imac g3 to possibly fill the gap but I'm not regretting going the route I chose......... yet.

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