Karen Politte
EF5
Okay folks - it's late January, it's the traditional time for hibernating chasers to start stirring around in their great collections of cables, wires, antennae, monitors, radios and PCMCIA cards to see what random configuration of components will suffice for on the road 2007, right?
Okay. Help me, please!
To rephrase that - we just decided last night (after pulling out the old laptop from it's bag and plugging it in to find that it is now a very heavy, very ugly paperweight) that we need a new laptop - NOW. We have alotted up to about $600 for a basic laptop. We only need it to function well for chasing. We're not going to be playing games or anything intensive on it. We would prefer it to be new.
The trouble is - when we started shopping online last night for laptops - we came to the horrific realization that almost ALL new computers (be they desktops of laptops) are being sold with VISTA now instead of Xp or anything older. G-U-L-P. Now - I dunno about you, but buying a laptop for chasing that is running on a totally new OS that hasn't been debugged yet by previous editions makes me twitch.
Does anybody have any experience with this VISTA thing? Does it run chase-related software (GPS mapping, GRLevelX etc.) easily and is it user-friendly in doing so??? I don't care about the XM/WeatherWorx thing as we don't have it and don't want it.
The other question I have is - who now sells laptops with the old OS, not VISTA? Is there anywhere online that is still selling these neolithic Xp machines?!?!?
ANY input would be greatly appreciated!
KL
Okay. Help me, please!
To rephrase that - we just decided last night (after pulling out the old laptop from it's bag and plugging it in to find that it is now a very heavy, very ugly paperweight) that we need a new laptop - NOW. We have alotted up to about $600 for a basic laptop. We only need it to function well for chasing. We're not going to be playing games or anything intensive on it. We would prefer it to be new.
The trouble is - when we started shopping online last night for laptops - we came to the horrific realization that almost ALL new computers (be they desktops of laptops) are being sold with VISTA now instead of Xp or anything older. G-U-L-P. Now - I dunno about you, but buying a laptop for chasing that is running on a totally new OS that hasn't been debugged yet by previous editions makes me twitch.
Does anybody have any experience with this VISTA thing? Does it run chase-related software (GPS mapping, GRLevelX etc.) easily and is it user-friendly in doing so??? I don't care about the XM/WeatherWorx thing as we don't have it and don't want it.
The other question I have is - who now sells laptops with the old OS, not VISTA? Is there anywhere online that is still selling these neolithic Xp machines?!?!?
ANY input would be greatly appreciated!
KL
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