Topic: If you were going to buy a Microsoft operating system right now,

[Tony]

Well there you are, but again I reckon you like Sandra will have a well spec'ed PC. I've always had this vision of you Cammy, as being a man who has everything he needs or desires .........

[Camstop]

Well there you are, but again I reckon you like Sandra will have a well spec'ed PC. I've always had this vision of you Cammy, as being a man who has everything he needs or desires .........

Yes your right, when i replaced my 5 year old office helicopter with a snazzy new silent Dell (deal too hot to miss via hotukdeals), i did double the RAM to 4GB (and yes, windows only recognises 3GB  ) via another deal for £30 so that it was up to good Vista spec.

As for the "needs and desires", well that's another topic!  ':|   

[Sandra]

I started using it last November to see what it was like, before it came out on general release Tony and the pc its running on isnt that well speccd by todays standards, its not even dual core.
Its a 3.6ghz P4 660 CPU that cost a lot of money 3 years back with 2 gig of ram and a £30 8400GS PCI-e GFX card, so its hardly the fastest pc in the world 

[Tony]

I must remember to use the "notify" option 

I started using it last November to see what it was like, before it came out on general release

very interesting 

Tony and the pc its running on isnt that well speccd by todays standards, its not even dual core.
Its a 3.6ghz P4 660 CPU that cost a lot of money 3 years back with 2 gig of ram and a £30 8400GS PCI-e GFX card, so its hardly the fastest pc in the world 

Now then Sandra all this graphics card labelling 7600GT, 8400GS and such, I'm again thinking of putting another new PC together, grandson bags mine [ AMD 64 3700+ 2GB Memory. Geforce 7600GT 256MB graphics card] when he comes on a weekend. Leaving me with my original first build  [Athlon 2000+ 512 MB Memory. 32GB Matrox G45 graphics card]...so no gaming there then   

Trouble is to begin with I want to keep the costs down, I was thinking of a AMD quad core 9550 [only 6 watts more power consumption than my 3700+] 4GB 800hz memory [cheap as chips right now] and a Mobo with Geforce 8200 on board graphics with up to 512mb shared memory, oh and use a Sata HD. [my two previous PC builds use IDE HDD] do you think it should run games like "Call of Duty 4" ? its says min spec is a GeForce 6600GT....Am I right in thinking the 8200 on board wont cope

Plan is to move the 3700+ into the 2000+  PSU 350watt case. New Mobo, CPU into the 450watt case vacated by the 3700+

See I was thinking of delaying purchasing something like a 9600GT PCI Express graphic card until later. Because I have noticed when the next latest offerings  go on sale, prior offerings drop substantially in price. But may of course need to buy now, kissing goodbye to another £90, if the 8200 wont hack it.  Of course with MS validating, it would also mean me buying yet another OS grrrrrrrrrrr, jeez it never stops this parting with brass does it.


Should I go Vista, or should I wait until Windows 7 comes out, before I build another PC ? What I suppose I'm saying is, it just galls  me to have to fork out for yet another MS OS so close to Win 7 coming out. What I really need is a 12 months evaluation copy "cough" of Vista  

[Clive]

Most of us are skipping Windows 7 and waiting for Windows 8 now Tony.   

[Tony]

Most of us are skipping Windows 7 and waiting for Windows 8 now Tony.  

 

[davy51]

I had a chance to run Vista in the beta stages on this machine I'm on it ran fast as xp pro with no changes

Some where during the beta and the general release something was added that slowed it down

Now my graphics card is not fast enough and my 2 gig of memory just doesnt do the job

So I put xp pro back on it

I will wait for windows 7 and see how it does

[Clive]

THIS is why I shall be clinging on to XP Tony. 

[Sandra]

Not sure how much you were thinking of spending on the bits Tony but next thursday Aldi have for sale what looks like a very good value PC.
Quad core Intel cpu (blows anything AMD has into a cocked hat. 4 Gig ram and a teragig hard drive.
The only thing lacking really is a Blu Ray DVD.
It has a TV card in as well for terrestrial, cable and satellite.
£499 sounds like a bargain especially as it comes with Vista Home premium installed.

[sam]

I got a machine from aldi a couple of months back... well impressed (shame it came with Vista Home Premium  .. .first thing I did dual boot with Ubuntu - not that I've booted into Vista since...).

[mistybear]

Which one did you get Sam? I have have an old Medion 8383XL.

[daveeb]

I've just got a new pc with XP sp3. For my uses i've found vista premium to be hopeless as it just won't run the majority of programs i rely on even in compatability mode. It's also extremely flakey especially with wireless networking. Windows 7 by all accounts is merely vista in xp clothing so i could well be using XP for the forseeable future. 

[Sandra]

Theres a Computer Active review on the upcoming Medion PC from Aldi here :

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/hardware/2230968/review-medion-p7300d-desktop

[Tony]

Sandra this is the review I thought I had posted earlierMedion P7300D

[Sandra]

Looks good Tony, the review I posted said that it came with 64 bit Vista installed but your review says it comes with 32 bit installed and the 64 bit on a DVD. That would be better as you may still have problems getting the programs you want as 64 bit versions for another year or two yet.
Dont forget that the Medion PCs from Aldi have always come with a 3 year guarantee thrown in as well, not many PC manufacturers give such a good guarantee for free