New XP netbook pinpoints Vista problems

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After a year with Vista it seemed to be well tamed, and
I had very few problems.

I just bought a very small/light netbook on which XP was
pre-installed. I use only office and web applications
with no games, and the netbook is 100% satisfactory with
6 hour battery life, 3# weight, and a brilliant LED
screen. WOW!

After two days I realize that there are two fundamental
differences between XP and Vista.

My Vista laptop has a T7700 dual-core processor at
2.4GHz, with 3GB RAM. The netbook has a single-core N270
at 1.6GHz, with 1GB RAM. The netbook boots and shuts
down in almost exactly half the time, and loads apps
more rapidly as well. I expected a serious time
differential between that high-speed system and the
little netbook, but the winner surprised me.
Speed.

When doing things with this new XP laptop, I never "hold
my breath". Everything just works. I now realize how
uncertain things were with Vista, how often I
automatically avoided certain things or did workarounds
to prevent problems. The XP netbook is 100% solid.
Confidence.

My assistant, who will inherent that $2.5k T7700 laptop,
will surely install XP on it.

Hank
 
Hank said:
After a year with Vista it seemed to be well tamed, and I had very few
problems.

I just bought a very small/light netbook on which XP was pre-installed.
I use only office and web applications with no games, and the netbook is
100% satisfactory with 6 hour battery life, 3# weight, and a brilliant
LED screen. WOW!

After two days I realize that there are two fundamental differences
between XP and Vista.

My Vista laptop has a T7700 dual-core processor at 2.4GHz, with 3GB RAM.
The netbook has a single-core N270 at 1.6GHz, with 1GB RAM. The netbook
boots and shuts down in almost exactly half the time, and loads apps
more rapidly as well. I expected a serious time differential between
that high-speed system and the little netbook, but the winner surprised me.
Speed.

When doing things with this new XP laptop, I never "hold my breath".
Everything just works. I now realize how uncertain things were with
Vista, how often I automatically avoided certain things or did
workarounds to prevent problems. The XP netbook is 100% solid.
Confidence.

My assistant, who will inherent that $2.5k T7700 laptop, will surely
install XP on it.

Hank
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He will only if there are drivers for XP that will work with the
laptop's hardware.

Alias
 
My Vista laptop has a T7700 dual-core processor at
2.4GHz, with 3GB RAM. The netbook has a single-core N270
at 1.6GHz, with 1GB RAM. The netbook boots and shuts
down in almost exactly half the time, and loads apps
more rapidly as well. I expected a serious time
differential between that high-speed system and the
little netbook, but the winner surprised me.
Speed.
Click to expand...
In all fairness, the specific disc drive and the chipset
drivers make a vast amount of difference in read speed. What is the
difference between the two?

Also, are they the same brand? There's a world of difference
between, say, a Lenovo and a Gateway.
 
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