On 2008-01-05 11:20:48 +0000, tony sayer said:

In article , John Rumm see.my.signa
scribeth thus
John Stumbles wrote:

Just before xmas I got a HP with 2G RAM and 120G HDD for about £350 from
Staples. I bought it there partly because I wanted to run Linux on

I had a DSG rep from PC World business offering me some similar sound
spec HP boxes at £200+VAT the other day - with a further £50 rebate!
They must be keen to shift them.

The other advice I would give is to make sure the system has 2Gb of
memory, any less with Vista and it will be sluggish.

I overheard a sales droid in Staples telling this to a customer and
assumed it was hype to sell better specced machines. My desktop at home

No, vista is a total dog on 512MB (even Home Basic), and fairly non
responsive in 1GB based on the machines I have tried. Number one
requirement specced by most of our customers seems to be "Can I still
have XP?"


I was in a local computer shop where they mainly repair than sell. Two
people had bought laptops from PC wurld and were almost begging matey to
put WIN XP on the machines, as they just couldn't stand another day of
the intrusiveness of Vista!..let alone the performance!...

This happened when people migrated from Windows 95 to 2000 as well.