Helooo
I’ve just treated myself to a new laptop after my old one decided to spit its dummy out bigtime
I have been going frantic for the last couple of days because i have been unable to get on to this site.
I had no idea how addicted to LB I have become… HELP!!!
Is there anything I should look out for / be warry of with this new vista software?
Very few things are compatible with vista yet outside the microsoft world. Partpoker, openoffice, GiMPshop to name just a few,
give it time and they’ll all come back, in the meantime download firefox and view LB on that.
I’m a total numpty when it comes to IT so please explain to me what firefox is?
I’m looking at you via IE7
It’s a web browser, way better than IE.
Gimpshop - what kind of websites do you look at??? 
It’s an opensource version of Photoshop.
Sticking it to the man geek style.
If you’ve never owned any technical equipment that you want to connect to your machine or used any software that you want to keep using you should do just FINE with buying a Vista Laptop from scratch. Vista is imho not the best OS but obviously sold with new laptops. For a total newbie I would ALWAYS recommend a MAC 
nice design and easier to handle for total beginners than Vista.
If you had equipment/software you want to use for Vista make sure they will work on the new OS. The same for when you buy something afterwards. But usually it’ll tell you on the package if it’s Vista compatible.
Good Luck 
Vista sucks the big ones. That’s the official line.
Get used to things working but at a walking pace and never will you be like “wow that was fast,” disable all the new graphic features and make sure you’ve got at very least 1 gb of ram.
Couldnt agree more. I am piloting it for work and cant do half my work!
Vista is a bit of a pain. I’ve just installed a Vista Business PC on my network to test software compatibility and to get used to using the OS. It is quick, it is pretty, but it is overly complicated in some areas. I’ve basically turned off the prettiness and have it running in “classic” mode which makes it more accessible.
Very easy to network and it is fast on the network but I’m not sure I’d have one at home. I’ll probably go with either Linux or get a MAC next time around.
I’m not feeling so confident about my purchase now I’ve read all this
What do you think I should do?
99% of laptops ship with vista now and the majority have more than 1gb ram. Also with the new hardware there is no need for dedicated graphics to run the vista ultimate with its flip 3D etc etc.
On vista make sure you download the patches regularly as at the moment its not the safest of OS…and IMO never will be. Looks the nuts and is friendly to use…
now office '07 is the dogs!
Will my office 2000 run on it ok?
stick to Win XP pro till you see Microsoft come out with atleast service pack 1 for the Vista, currently there are alot of issues with Vista
Should run A ok mate i reckon. office 07 would be better. 
with new OS it is always better to wait for a service pack but hey…you gotta go sometime. Personally i’ve stuck to xp on all my comp.s…not that its any good mind as its still crap…but will switcharoo as soon as the drivers for everything are available and i don’t have to hunt for hours
When I think my first PC was Windows 3.1 running 4Mb RAM
Where did it all go wrong?
When I joined the company I currently work for they had a 486 computers running MS DOS with less then 4MB ram 
Bah, youngsters… 
Don’t know you’re borne… my first work PC was a 286, had a stonking 20Mb hard drive, 640k of RAM and a 2 colour monitor - Green text (no graphics) on black background, plenty of the machines I had to support were 8086 with 5122k Ram
