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re: Question about Laptop & Vista or XP
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:22 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Joe
(40 messages posted)
If you are worried about XP vs Vista and you are really happy with XP, look for a
laptop with XP (home or pro). You can still get them. I bought one from Dell about
a month ago with XP home and it cost me about $700 total. No issues with Vista to
deal with this way. My other computers are XP home so they all network without having
to do heroic things. I'm happy and this will last me until Vista has all the bugs
worked out and is accepted like XP. Or, if it turns out Vista isn't the latest and
greatest, I don't have to worry with it.
Just my penny's worth...
On Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:03 am, outofpocket wrote:
>I agree w Alex. You will need xp drivers. A quick check of the Gateway site is
>not too encouraging. They have one driver for the card reader, and offer others
>that *may* work. I have seen several laptops that were made for vista NOT have
drivers
>available for xp. The vendors make components specific for an OS and don't always
>make drivers for earlier OS's. It's a good chance that that unit won't work under
>xp. A google check
>http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-44,GGLJ:en&q=Gateway+MX8738+xp+compatible
>indicates that there is a chance that all the drivers are available, but you would
>have to do the legwork of finding and loading everything.
>Good luck. HTH
>Outofpocket
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