I am now poised with a slipstreamed XP install, with Toshiba’s driver base, to go XP and Linux.īut Vista’s eye-candy is like the Voice of Saruman…Got to summon up enough plain Hobbit courage and common sense to resist…(just a bit of hairy-footed humour)…Įdited – It strikes me I may get some feedback along the lines of ‘why didn’t you just get a laptop without an OS’? Just to say, for information, I tried this option, but even with the Vista tax, the hardware specs I got on this machine surpassed anything I could expect from going down that route, unfortunately, although the process did throw up some interesting small-scale suppliers. So, now (despite previous posts to the contrary) I am currently a Vista user…I went with the Toshiba in the end though since they very usefully still supply XP drivers (at least for the model I got). Trying various outlets was like hitting your head against the proverbial brick wall – Couldn’t get an off-the-shelf machine with XP, and I was told categorically in various laces (cough PC World, Dixon’s cough) that were I to load XP myself I would void my warranty, etc. However, I was informed by a reliable tech (who I have been using for some years) for example that the HP XP downgrade download had ‘just disappeared’ from the HP site in the UK. I was angling to get an HP or Toshiba laptop since after some research these companies *appeared* to hold out the most sraightforward downgrade/XP supply options, sometimes depending on model. At the beginning of this year I understood that the cut-off point for supplying machines preloaded with XP was 31 Jan. *Not really a business problem for a monopoly, as there is no need to compete. Perhaps this is one of the primary causes of the release buggy, fix later problem* that Microsoft has fallen in to. Most of the software world uses RC to mean “Candidate for Release”, and potentially, hopefully, no code changes. Error code 43 appears if your AMD graphics card drivers have not been updated. This shift unfortunately extends backward. The release candidate is the one you buy. Then they change the code, and release the final without a real RC. This “release an RC as a beta” applies to almost all of their software. This isn’t just with their Service Packs either. An example was RC2, where the build number is placed in the My Computer’s properties instead of “Service Pack 3”. “Release Candidates” are released with the foreknowledge that there are still bugs to be fixed, and there will be code changes. Unfortunately, with Microsoft you have to shift all development cycles one step to the right, with RC falling right off the track altogether.
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