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Hiya
My daughter is in the process of choosing a new laptop, ready for uni in Sept.
What a nightmare. All the big stores only stock laptops with Vista. It’s a conspiracy to make you have that operating system. The salesmen say that it’s no problem taking off the Vista and installing XP if you want, so go ahead and buy their nice new computers!
I am suspicious. Has anyone else had experience of changing a puter from Vista to XP. Is it tricky? Would it be better to try and find a laptop which has XP (increasingly difficult option).
It’s a jungle out there.
Ta for any advice you can give.
fay
Vista is ok.
It works and just takes a bit of getting to know.
But remmber what trouble we all had with xp a few years back?
She will just have to spend the next few years up grading it like we all did and are still doing with xp.
I would say this:
Buy her a usb tv plug in (about £40), so she can watch tv on her pc, in her room.
Buy her a copy of microsofa office for her class work too. (about £400)
She will need both.
Thanks for replying and for your advice, doa. Hmm, thats expensive getting Office 2007 on a Vista laptop when it costs so much already.
Maybe I can get a student version of it or something.
Still a nuisance trying to get all the software I have on my computer to run on Vista I bet…hmmm. Shame it’s come at a time when she needs a decent working computer and not one that needs updating with drivers and patches everywhere. (By the way she’ll be doing Advertising with Design, so graphics are important).
Any more input from anyone welcome – thanks
Fancy a Night out Fay ?
What’s that got to do with my question?
Stick to the point pleeease, lol.
vista should be ok on new machines
the problems have been upgrading to vista from xp machines as all the drivers don’t like to play with Vista
The main problem with MICROSOFT OFFICE HOME AND STUDENT 2007 is that very year you need to buy it again.
I know its about £100, but I feel that you would be better off just buying the MICROSOFT OFFICE STANDARD 2007 for £330
I did have a word with people who have “Vista” and they tell me they “love it”.
Vista is better for things like “ipods” and media stuff.
But I am told that people who are doing “design” all use Mac’s.
The APPLE iMAC20 INTEL CORE 2 DUO PROCESSOR 2.16GHz APPLE iMAC ( £1000) seems to be the main one for most art students. (The laptops cost more and start at £1200).
I know its not cheap and its not a laptop, but its better for design work, and runs all of the art packages they will be using.
I would ring your daughter uni and talk to one of there teachers about sofaware pack’s or wait untill she starts in Oct and see what they are all using.
Remmber you will still need to spend about £1000 on more sofaware, them art packages are not cheap!!!!!!
With you next child make they do something like “dance”, its much cheaper to fund.
Oh by the way, if you think this costs bomb, wait untill she starts, its gets much worst.
When she move’s out of halls, she will need house deposits (£500), money to live on untill her loan comes thru and new cloths.
One of the people who work for me has a son at Hull, its costing him about £1000-2000 per year to keep him there, the loans don’t last long or cover much.
Well, I think we are finally arriving at some sort of decision. The market is determining which o.s. you use basically. I have corresponded with the uni techie guys and they reckon a laptop with Vista, with a big Ram and Harddrive, will be the way forward. The uni are upgrading to Vista anyway. Also to get Office 2007.
Also, her course is more marketing than design, despite it’s title and hopefully won’t be too graphics intensive!Yup, I know all about the cost. Our son finished uni last year and is now working to pay off debts! We helped out as much as we could.
It’s worse for kids now though. Whereas before, the fees were £1,000 a year, but now they will be £3,000 a year, for which our daughter’s had to get out a second loan. Her first loan won’t even cover the cost of her accommodation.
No pressure eh!
:?
Cheers for your input doa.
@fay wrote:
What’s that got to do with my question?
Stick to the point pleeease, lol.
oh you`ll get to the point alright Hubba Hubba :P :lol:
Hi Fay,
For what it’s worth, everyone jumps on the new operating system band wagon as a sales pitch, we’ve had the same with 98, 2000, XP etc etc, Billy Gates wants to corner the market with his latest OS and that gives the retailers a chance to flog more of their machines as they seem to think we all want the latest, industry is still going over to XP and Vista? give it time I guess
Buying a machine is very much what you want it to do eg, graphics,office or home use etc, you should also consider the choice of manufacturer, some laptops a very well constructed and others suffer from being easily damaged. At best, most are lobbed into back seats of cars, dropped onto beds and used on wobbley laps, plastic or aluminium chassis are prone to warping, even cracking, whereas a more expensive but more solidly built machine will not suffer from this and will not demand costly repair bills, talk to the salespeople by all means but speak to the guys on the repair desks and they will tell you more about the makes, plus odds on are that they will have more experience, if your talking to the Uni, talk to the tekkies.
Dru
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