OT: Vista users and wannabe's

[amalventano1 at tds.net (Allyn)]

That system I mentioned earlier could be had for not much more than your motherboard quote.
Al 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:18 PM
> To: Allyn 
> Cc: Scirocco-l@scirocco.org; peter@thescirocco.com
> Subject: RE: OT: Vista users and wannabe's
> 
> On 11:37 am 03/13/07 "Allyn" <amalventano1@tds.net> wrote:
> > Buy used.  Get a system with a core2 duo and a gig of ram - with xp 
> > installed - for cheaper than a brandy new vista machine, yet more 
> > capable. hth Al
> >
> Yeah, this is a used machine, and had pretty hard use from 
> the PO. I'm not sure I want to do that again (hubby bought me 
> this one, so  had no say).
> Not do I have any clue how to buy or replace the motherboard 
> in this one and Dell quoted me nearly $700 for that. Nope, 
> sorry, not doing THAT. This one came with no software at all 
> except what was loaded, and it DID have the wrong touchpad 
> software, which I just recently realized, after I had 
> replaced the palmrest once. So I'll pony up the bucks, ans 
> hopefully I'll be able to wait till the new version of 
> Windows gets its bugs ironed out.
> And I will not be buying from the store that this one came from.
> cathy
> 
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