Buy HP Pavilion dv9500t series, HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario Notebook PCs and Laptop Computers direct from the HP Home & Home Office Store It's on it's way! I loaded it to the gills. fastest processor available, 4 gigs of ram, 256 meg discrete video, high def monitor. Windows Vista ...
12-07-2007, 02:07 PM
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| Dirty Liberal  Democrat South Jersey 
| technology is neat Buy HP Pavilion dv9500t series, HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario Notebook PCs and Laptop Computers direct from the HP Home & Home Office Store It's on it's way! I loaded it to the gills. fastest processor available, 4 gigs of ram, 256 meg discrete video, high def monitor. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit. Wireless with 802.11-N and bluetooth support. It should be here before christmas! I'm psyched. I'm not sure about Vista, but you pretty much can't buy anything unless it comes with Vista. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 02:15 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur.  Reform Party NJ
| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 You can buy a lot without Vista.. XP is still a strong seller.. 
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12-07-2007, 02:24 PM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator  Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| You can always install XP or go ahead and dual boot of you have apps that won't run on vista. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 02:38 PM
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| For those about to rock...  libertarian Atlanta, GA
| *cough* Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu | ||||
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12-07-2007, 03:28 PM
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| Originally Posted by Ardentfrost Yeah if I ever have a need there is always that.
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12-07-2007, 03:40 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est  Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Vista is shit, and XP consistently outperforms it. If you have to use windows, stick with XP. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 03:46 PM
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| For those about to rock... libertarian Atlanta, GA
| Originally Posted by motivez Yeah, I heard that even with the much anticipated SP1 for Vista, XP still kicks its ass.
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12-07-2007, 03:48 PM
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| Originally Posted by motivez It's not even an option on HP's site.
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12-07-2007, 03:58 PM
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| For those about to rock... libertarian Atlanta, GA
| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 Then you have 3 choices:
1. Pay the MS Tax twice (once on having Vista pre-installed and once more for getting XP) 2. Live with Vista 3. Install a free OS like Ubuntu (or XP if you pirate it, you naughty boy) | ||||
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12-07-2007, 04:05 PM
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| Hamiltonian > Jeffersonian  Libertarian Party DFW
| Sheana and I have Vista on our new laptop (also an HP, got it like 6 months ago)... We haven't had any problems.  | ||||
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12-07-2007, 04:08 PM
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| Originally Posted by Ardentfrost Never saw this before, looks interesting.
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12-07-2007, 04:17 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Ubuntu is great for people who want to get into Linux but haven't ever used it before, it's a very linux-noob friendly distro.. even has an update manager for software packages. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 04:19 PM
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| Originally Posted by motivez Yea I never worked on Linux and I have no idea what "distro" means
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12-07-2007, 04:27 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur. Reform Party NJ
| Originally Posted by David Octavius Distro = Distribution. There are about a billion and one different Operating Systems that use Linux as it's core Kernel. Ubuntu is the most popular one due to it's ease of use. OSX is actually based on the Linux kernel.
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12-07-2007, 04:40 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Actually, OSX is based on BSD, which is a little different.. but still a UNIX environment. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 05:44 PM
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| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 why'd you get it?
just a toy? | ||||
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12-07-2007, 06:43 PM
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| helluo librorum The Lab Moderator Humanist Chicago Suburbs
| Originally Posted by motivez I have been so tempted to give it a try.
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12-07-2007, 07:01 PM
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| ipsa Scientia Potestas est Pragmatist Greensboro, NC
| Originally Posted by Scrum Most hardware manufacturers these days have some level of linux support, so I mean, unless you have some 10 year old computer that no one still uses, you probably wont have any problems getting your stuff to work.
You should try a Live CD to see if you like it, that way you don't have to commit to anything if you don't have a spare HD lying around (or don't want to partition) for dual boot. I only use Windows for gaming and school projects that require me to use Windows.. the rest of the time I'm booting Ubuntu, though I haven't been using it much lately because I've been doing more gaming to relieve stress as finals approach.. As Microsoft continues its crusade to strangle consumer rights I'll use Windows less and less. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 07:45 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur. Reform Party NJ
| By LiveCD he's basically saying the installer is bundled in a LiveCD. Just burn the ISO to a disk, keep the disc in your drive and reboot. It will load Ubuntu off the CD instead of Windows and you'll have basically a fully working Linux system with internet and everything. You can install drivers for peripherals like Printers if you choose to install it. I think it may even come with some HP printer support if my memory serves me correctly. It'll be a little slow considering it's running off a CD, but it works well. | ||||
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12-07-2007, 10:37 PM
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| Originally Posted by 7960
A toy? eh Yes and no. My desktop PC at home is getting a bit old. I built it originally back in 2002 and I upgraded the processor once and the video card once. It's been pretty solid the whole time but it's reaching a point where it won't run most of the new games out there and some of the newer video editing software won't run at all because the processor is old technology. So it's time for an upgrade. Usually 5 years is about all you can expect from a PC anyway. So since I need a new one anyway I figured what he heck. I could use a laptop with my night classes and stuff and I can keep this PC and let my wife use it to do her lesson plans and write e-mails and such. Plus it's sort of found money. The acquisition of my company was finalized today so they will be paying out all of our options early next week. It's enough so that I can spend a little extra on a top of the line notebook without feeling guilty about it  The rest we are just going to save. | ||||
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