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Will you buy Vista or stay with XP?
Old 08-13-2006, 04:38 PM   #1
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I was just curious as to how many people are planning on upgrading to Windows Vista when it comes out later this year and how many will stay with XP?

I'm probably going to upgrade myself. I just bought an extra 512mb of RAM to bump my sytem up to 1 GB.
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Old 08-13-2006, 05:00 PM   #2
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Forget about windows, I will be getting OS X Leopard.
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Old 08-13-2006, 05:03 PM   #3
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I'll probably upgrade our family's PC to Vista.

I'll be getting Leopard also! Rawr!
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Old 08-13-2006, 07:02 PM   #4
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XP. I probably won't buy Vista for a year or two once they buff out all the bumps and bugs.

On a side not, it's going to be interesting seeing what happens with Apple. AMD and ATI are pals now. And with dx10 and AMD making chips for PCs....well, we'll see. Compatibility might be an issue, it might not.
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Old 08-13-2006, 08:14 PM   #5
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I'll probably upgrade. Vista seems to do better from the bat compared to the hell XP had getting off the ground (compatibility issues with older apps, etc..)
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Old 08-14-2006, 07:42 AM   #6
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Default Re: Will you buy Vista or stay with XP?

i probably will upgrade if i can get it for free. Otherwise, i'm more than happy with XP
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Old 08-14-2006, 11:44 PM   #7
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Forget about windows, I will be getting OS X Leopard.
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Old 08-14-2006, 06:00 PM   #8
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I was looking forward to the database feature where everything would be in btu they took it out so...
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Old 08-14-2006, 08:10 PM   #9
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Default Re: Will you buy Vista or stay with XP?

What's the best way to back up files and settings prior to performing a reformat?

We've had our PC for about 3 years now and I haven't done a reformat on it yet. I think it's time.
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Old 08-14-2006, 08:28 PM   #10
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If you have a second hard drive, it's pretty easy to copy all the files. You only need to back up things like music, movies, documents, emails, ect. If you don't have another hard drive you can just go the DVD route...but if you have some 300~400gigs of music like myself, that's a pain.

As far as settings go, there's no real easy way to go about doing that. You can import bookmarks real easy with firefox. And make sure you have all the drivers you need before you reinstall anything.

If you have any super critical settings, like Network stuff, write it down. More oft than not, I find the only difficulty I have is settting up my networks and ISP settings. But computers are pretty smart these days.

Formating sucks. I can't wait for blu-ray when I can dump 20gigs of info on a disc.
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