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Ian M;26329 wrote:Justin, I seem to be having the same kind of problems running Windows Vista. I keep getting told by various 'experts' to move onto Windows 7 as it is much more stable.

Either that Ian or go back to XP which is more stable than Vista. If your computer has the spec then definately upgrade to 7. Vista is a poor operating system.

Justin, if you can get hold of a Mac for a couple of hundred quid go for it. You won't be disapointed. I use both and much prefer the Mac OS for photography and graphics. I have mine networked so that I can send the files over to the PC for printing. In the photographic industry I think I'm still correct in saying that most prefer to use macs for working on. They are more intuitive. Good luck.

Windows 7 is the best Windows yet.

My PC came with Vista, which was generally ok, but 7 is leaps and bounds better.

If your pc will run xp it'll run 7 - as long as there are drivers available for it.
There is an upgrade advisor tool on Micro$oft's website to check compatibility.

One thing to bear in mind though, if you do go the 7 route, is that you can't do an in place upgrade - you have to re-install Windows and all your programs again.
For some reason MS call this a "custom upgrade"!

Mark

I've read a lot recently about Vista being no good. Is XP Pro any more stable? Running that on my laptop and (touch wood) it's always been very good.

I've had a play with Win7 but decided to stick with XP....maybe I should play again?

Bit worried about having to start over again with Software for a Mac, CS3 prob. around £200 for a start?

If you have old printers by aware that they might not work anymore with win7 - some people have suggested work around's but I haven't fathomed out how to do it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Apple-iMac-2-GHZ- ... 23126ca519

This interests me, being sold with CS5 pre-installed.

I always thought XP Pro was the best I have ever used & a lot of companies still use XP today.

Ian M;26329 wrote:Justin, I seem to be having the same kind of problems running Windows Vista. I keep getting told by various 'experts' to move onto Windows 7 as it is much more stable.

coz it is
windows 7 is veryy good system. is sort of mix xp with vista all in good way lol

We still use XP but are migrating to 7 - have done around 30 now with no real problems.

Mark

http://www.webmasterworld.com/microsoft ... 231524.htm

There are still massive amounts of people out there using XP, so many that Microsoft extended the support for it for an extra 5 years. It is still a very good(for a Microsoft) OS. I did use windows 7 for a time before moving to Mac and found it to be considerable amount better than Vista, but i still cant work out why it updates all that time, It seams like every day i turn the laptop on at work and it configures more updates. Then the Anti virus needs up dating and the firewall setting are incorrect then there are those times where it just stops, and the questions. "are you sure?" "are you really sure?" "do you really want to do that?" "this might have been downloaded from the internet. are you sure you want to open it?" "updates are available for this computer" "windows need to restart in order to finish installing updates" and my fav one "windows update needs to update in order to install updates"

It did take me a little while to get use to using a Mac but I aint ever going back. once a mouth (at most) my mac pops up a little window that says" there are some updates available for your computer. Would you like to install them now?"

The only downside to the mac is that everything is still geared toward windows, although the software list available for Mac is getting much bigger there is still the odd one that you cant have, but in most cases there is a equivalent that is just as good or better.

Sorry rant over. yeah buy a Mac, I would still recommend a Intel over G4 or G5, mostly because Snow Leopard is just Awesome and the Intel's support more software, Including Windows for when your PC completely gives up.

I'd say price is another downside

Mark