Need a new Laptop

[Thanee]

Vista Home Premium or Business 32bit (those are what you get with most current notebooks) should be fine for your area of application.

If you are worried about Vista, try to get a notebook with XP, but in my experience, Vista does work pretty well, when you have no fancy hardware issues, which you really should not have with a notebook that comes preinstalled with Vista.

I'm running Vista Ultimate since about a year now on my home PC and had almost no issues (and only rather minor ones, if any).

The bigger problem could be the choice of the Office Suite. You will surely need Microsoft Office, because of compatibility issues, but if you are very used to the Office 2003 and earlier versions, Office 2007 is vastly different from those. I like it better, but many do not.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Arnwyn]

The bigger problem could be the choice of the Office Suite. You will surely need Microsoft Office, because of compatibility issues, but if you are very used to the Office 2003 and earlier versions, Office 2007 is vastly different from those. I like it better, but many do not.

Not sure what you're saying here - Office 2003 doesn't work on Vista? (I.e. you need Office 2007 if you have Vista?)

 

[Rackhir]

Not sure what you're saying here - Office 2003 doesn't work on Vista? (I.e. you need Office 2007 if you have Vista?)

You will surely need Microsoft Office, because of compatibility issues

He's saying that you are going to need Office, because any other "office" package (ex. open office) will have compatibility issues with MS Office files. It has nothing to do with the version of windows.

 

[Mercule]

I've never been a fan of Dells. Personally, I like Gateways. They have killer battery life -- the two Gateway laptops I've owned have had 4-5 hour batteries, without getting the upgraded battery.

On the note of power management, though, Vista is bad about it. Overall, I really like Vista, but I ended up reinstalling XP on my tablet, just because Vista cut the battery by half or more. Of course, that means a Dell with Vista would run for about 5 minutes, so I guess it's all in the perspective.