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Feb. 22nd, 2008 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI bought a laptop last week at Best Buy. $650. Toshiba Satellite. Nice machine, good processor, good RAM, 17-inch widescreen. Fun, right? Slight problem: it runs Vista.
Now, I'm an XP person. I've been XP for a while. I know that eventually we're going to have to adapt to using Vista in the office, but until MS gives us no choice, that ain't happening. I'm currently torn: do I leave the laptop as it is and attempt to learn Vista through use, or do I format it down to the particulate storage level and install XP and all the necessary drivers? Has anyone had to do the wipe-and-change OS shuffle? Can you offer any advice on how to do so with a minimum of trouble?
(For those of you who wonder about such things, the laptop's name is Dion. Not for the lead singer of the Belmonts. For this Dion- specifically, because this computer might or might not end up being reformatted and getting an identity change.)
Now, I'm an XP person. I've been XP for a while. I know that eventually we're going to have to adapt to using Vista in the office, but until MS gives us no choice, that ain't happening. I'm currently torn: do I leave the laptop as it is and attempt to learn Vista through use, or do I format it down to the particulate storage level and install XP and all the necessary drivers? Has anyone had to do the wipe-and-change OS shuffle? Can you offer any advice on how to do so with a minimum of trouble?
(For those of you who wonder about such things, the laptop's name is Dion. Not for the lead singer of the Belmonts. For this Dion- specifically, because this computer might or might not end up being reformatted and getting an identity change.)
