Comments on: Take Off Your Beer-Goggles: Windows XP Wasn’t A Blockbuster! http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/21/take-off-your-beer-goggles-windows-xp-wasnt-a-blockbuster/ The Musings of Paul Ellis Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:53:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Paul Ellis http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/21/take-off-your-beer-goggles-windows-xp-wasnt-a-blockbuster/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Paul Ellis Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:54:35 +0000 http://pseudosavant.com/blog/?p=189#comment-783 You know what, $500 computers are getting better all the time. I just bought a cheap (~$460, including tax and shipping) Gateway laptop for my wife that came with Vista Home Premium, and it runs fine. For that price it is dual-core, has a pretty decent ATI GPU, DVD-Burner, Webcam, etc. The only thing it doesn't have that we may have wanted is Wireless-N and Bluetooth. So $500 laptops when Vista came out, yeah that's a problem, but everyday it is out it becomes less of a problem. You know what, $500 computers are getting better all the time. I just bought a cheap (~$460, including tax and shipping) Gateway laptop for my wife that came with Vista Home Premium, and it runs fine. For that price it is dual-core, has a pretty decent ATI GPU, DVD-Burner, Webcam, etc. The only thing it doesn’t have that we may have wanted is Wireless-N and Bluetooth. So $500 laptops when Vista came out, yeah that’s a problem, but everyday it is out it becomes less of a problem.

]]> By: Bob Caswell http://pseudosavant.com/blog/2008/07/21/take-off-your-beer-goggles-windows-xp-wasnt-a-blockbuster/comment-page-1/#comment-782 Bob Caswell Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:46:47 +0000 http://pseudosavant.com/blog/?p=189#comment-782 But XP was fruitier than 2000. :-) Seriously, though, I agree that change in corporate IT is always a difficult hurdle and not necessarily the fault of the new software (even if the software itself is often part of the problem). I also agree that Vista isn't bad at all if you have at least 2 gigs of RAM. But putting it as the default OS on the millions of $500 bargain PCs is probably not a good idea. And I don't know that I'll ever understand why I should take seriously (as a fair comparison) the sales numbers of one year of a new OS versus the install base of another OS that's been around for seven years... But XP was fruitier than 2000. :-) Seriously, though, I agree that change in corporate IT is always a difficult hurdle and not necessarily the fault of the new software (even if the software itself is often part of the problem).

I also agree that Vista isn’t bad at all if you have at least 2 gigs of RAM. But putting it as the default OS on the millions of $500 bargain PCs is probably not a good idea.

And I don’t know that I’ll ever understand why I should take seriously (as a fair comparison) the sales numbers of one year of a new OS versus the install base of another OS that’s been around for seven years…

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