Dude, don't go with Windows, it shall ruin your laptop. There are still wayyyy to freaking may problems with Vista and they only get worse by the day, best bet go to Linux. Better OS and better features and on the plus side it shall save you almost $200+(that is what Vista is now eh?) If you go with Linux try Ubuntu(http://www.ubuntu.com/) it is the beginners guide to the wonderful world of freeware
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just need dual heads for dual output. Your box is marginally faster than my new one. Q6600 chip as the 2.6ghz chips were hard to find at the time of ordering...tho I still need a vid card for her, don't think I'm gonna drop another ATI card in my box, gonna go nvidia for gaming and maybe a tv card...last 2 boxes had ATI AIW cards in them (8500DV + X600 Pro) respectively.
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I didn't think dual heads but maybe you might be on to something. Was at the Nvidia site a few weeks back and they have I believe a dual 1 gig gaming card, that most of there critics said preformed well but price was a facture. I don't do any gaming with my pc as well I am lazy and like the PS3 controller lol so I can't comment on a good gaming card
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Nah im gonna change my system soon. Btw im not bothered to overclock it, as Pentium D is not good for overclocking.
If u don't do much gaming, your current 512MB nVidia® GeForce® 8800 GT will suffice. I can actually run Crysis on my 7300 (not the best configs)!!
I grew up on Windows too(95 in fact) but I mean the switch is like a 3 day grace period and once you get WINE, you are flying.
Still and always will, they spent almost 7 years on the OS and it came out and what 4 weeks later a service pack. You'd think after that many years they'd have all the bugs out but nope Bill Gates is well (insert witty remark) LoL
crash a dual boot is the perfect solution, you have a chance to see what Linux can do without giving up Windows cold Turkey, plus most Linux's OS have a live disc so you can run str8 off the cd or install without formatting you entire drive. My opinion is to seriously check it out
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Pent D. had their day, tho its come & gone. It's the same chip I had put in Rainie's PC. Tho I had originally planned to upgrade it to a 3.+ Ghz chip later on down the road. Tho, those plans are obviously now nixed.
I do a TON of gaming. I just need to pick my card out, and continue to use my older P4 2.8 Ghz / 2 GB RAM / ATI AIW X600 Pro card for now.
It's the way it is. People are stuck/attached to windows. & since the *NIX community can't get their shit together, & bother to launch something very similar to get ppl to move, it won't happen anytime soon.
Vista has more than "some problems". Most large Corp.'s aren't even going to use Vista at all. Espically since most use VLK's anyway. Don't dual boot yet, use Virtual PC or VMWare to test the new OS. I need to load my Vista Biz in VMWare as soon as I find my VMWare software, or remote into work and grab it from there.
I just recently bit the bullet & traded up from Win 2k Pro to XP Pro. XP Still isn't my fav. OS, but its a hella lot better than Vista will ever be, and too many software titles are going XP only. Hence my forceful switch to XP. Meh.
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WINE's creators say that 98% of Windows software(including games). Here is the http://appdb.winehq.org/ to some of the games/software the WINE does, I'm sure if you google and play with words you shall find more.
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