Comments on: The Vista Bounce

By: greg laden

greg laden — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:11:58 +0000

I have one of those flat screen CRT’s in the garage. Want it?

By: Benjamin Franz

Benjamin Franz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:25:27 +0000

It occured to me after posting that you might be trying to spec a flat screen CRT monitor. If that is what you are trying to do, you are going to have to give up. CRTs of any type are becoming speciality items. The monitor market is now nearly entirely LCD.

By: Benjamin Franz

Benjamin Franz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:14:05 +0000

Greg: "a 22 inch flat screen monitor for 300.00?"Sure. Here is a good onehttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824001096

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:05:59 +0000

Holy crap, Ben, are you telling me I can get a 22 inch flat screen monitor for 300.00? Well, that clearly drops a grand off he sweet spot price for a nice computer. Is it for real? Are they sharp and crisp and clear ? I can’t use fuzzy monitors.

By: Benjamin Franz

Benjamin Franz — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:51:34 +0000

Greg: Video card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130291While short of gold plating by buying a 8800 series card (at nearly twice the price), it is still an excellent card.As for the monitor, I would be intriqued by what you consider a ‘good’ monitor. No specing $1000 monitors. Those aren’t anywhere near ‘the toe’.

By: greg laden

greg laden — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:15:25 +0000

Ben:Your monitor sucks, and your graphics subsystem probably does too. No fair building the system on your own, you have to buy it from Dell.Steves: You could begin by saying something less troll-like and making an actual point. In what way is what I said wrong? Why do you think they (economists) call this a sweet spot? Do you pay more than you need to unless necessary? Would you buy a 120 gig hard drive instead of a 400 gig hard drive because it costs ten dollars less? Huh? Get back to us on that, buddy.

By: Matt Penfold

Matt Penfold — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:33:19 +0000

Surely it depends on what you want to use your computer for ?If you want to edit videos, or play the latest games, then yes, you will need to spend a fair bit to get a pc with plenty of of processing power, a decent graphics card, plenty of RAM and a large HDD. But if all you want to do is browse the web, send emails and write a few letters then almost any PC being sold today will do. Indeed any PC sold in the last 5 years is probably going to do, especially if you add more RAM which is by far the cheapest upgrade you can normally do.

By: decrepitoldfool

decrepitoldfool — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:03:46 +0000

(comment broke for some reason) …all less than 4 years old. Only about 125 can run Vista effectively and many of the specialized business applications break entirely in Vista. The companies that make them are behind in updates.

By: decrepitoldfool

decrepitoldfool — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:00:44 +0000

Sorry, didn’t mean to be dense. Our experiments with Vista are not encouraging; we have 500+ computers in our building, running XP, all < 4 years old, and only about 120 of them can run Vista effectively. Many of the specialized applications we use in our business courses won't run at all in Vista and the companies that develop them are running behind in creating updates.

By: the real Fran Cisella

the real Fran Cisella — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:50:55 +0000

What about this laptop? It seems that it could have some nice residual Vista post-bounce ;-)http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/explore.phphttp://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.phpHave you followed the way that Microsoft wages war against this idea of One Laptop Per Child (running Linux)?