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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3490720" data-attributes="member: 32740">Bought a new Gateway laptop with Vista a week and a half ago.&nbsp; Took it with me on a week-long visit out of state to start playing with it and quickly concluded that it would require extensive &quot;re-learning&quot; to know where MS moved options and tweaks for EVERYTHING, on top of which it fought everything I started to load on it.&nbsp; I have no time or use for that.&nbsp; New drivers for hardware are not available/not adequate.&nbsp; New software is BARELY available and old software, I.E. games, are problematic at BEST and required immediate time and effort spent tweaking things just to GET them working, etc.&nbsp; I mean - who NEEDS that kind of CRAP?Worse problem is, I then bought a copy of XP to load on it but it can't come up with drivers to even get the nic card working.&nbsp; Spent most of Saturday searching for drivers and trying to simply find HOW to change things that I know instinctively where to find in XP to beat the thing into submission.&nbsp; Needless to say I'm frustrated and HIGHLY disappointed.&nbsp; And yet try buying a NEW computer WITHOUT Vista on it right now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 3490720, member: 32740"] Bought a new Gateway laptop with Vista a week and a half ago. Took it with me on a week-long visit out of state to start playing with it and quickly concluded that it would require extensive "re-learning" to know where MS moved options and tweaks for EVERYTHING, on top of which it fought everything I started to load on it. I have no time or use for that. New drivers for hardware are not available/not adequate. New software is BARELY available and old software, I.E. games, are problematic at BEST and required immediate time and effort spent tweaking things just to GET them working, etc. I mean - who NEEDS that kind of CRAP? Worse problem is, I then bought a copy of XP to load on it but it can't come up with drivers to even get the nic card working. Spent most of Saturday searching for drivers and trying to simply find HOW to change things that I know instinctively where to find in XP to beat the thing into submission. Needless to say I'm frustrated and HIGHLY disappointed. And yet try buying a NEW computer WITHOUT Vista on it right now. [/QUOTE]

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