Sunday 06 July - A day when all Americans are hung over from two days of celebrating their independence, and a day when I took a step backwards in time, OS wise.

ecchi · 2014-07-06, 08:41 AM

From tomorrow I'm house sitting a friend's place for eleven days. This means I will be using the laptop rather than the desktop. The laptop is Vista, and I am so sick of Vista that I went to a computer fair this morning looking for a cheap XP install disk, or a cheap post Vista install disk. All post Vista disks were a bit expensive, and as I will be using the laptop for website design XP would have been better anyway (most people still have XP/IE8, so I design for that). Unfortunately no one had old XP disks for sale, so I ended up spending a little over the equivalent of $100 on a second hand laptop with XP already installed.

That a mean skinflint like me is prepared to pay over $100 to go backwards one generation shows exactly how shit Vista must be!

2014-07-06, 08:41 AM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Sunday 06 July - A day when all Americans are hung over from two days of celebrating their independence, and a day when I took a step backwards in time, OS wise. From tomorrow I'm house sitting a friend's place for eleven days. This means I will be using the laptop rather than the desktop. The laptop is Vista, and I am so sick of Vista that I went to a computer fair this morning looking for a cheap XP install disk, or a cheap post Vista install disk. All post Vista disks were a bit expensive, and as I will be using the laptop for website design XP would have been better anyway (most people still have XP/IE8, so I design for that). Unfortunately no one had old XP disks for sale, so I ended up spending a little over the equivalent of $100 on a second hand laptop with XP already installed. That a mean skinflint like me is prepared to pay over $100 to go *backwards* one generation shows exactly how shit Vista must be!