Posted by jdemaris on December 27, 2010 at 08:18:32 from (67.142.130.38):
In Reply to: Re: Laptop posted by 550Doug on December 27, 2010 at 07:19:22:
I agree with the XP choice when possible. But, I'm now reluctantly using Vista on some new machines. Vista will support many older programs,whereas Windows 7 "Home Premium" will not. And, even if you spend extra money and get Windows 7 Pro, it still cannot always run programs that the cheapest Vista or XP can. Windows 7 Pro can only do it if it's got the correct hardware and suppports "Virtual Machine."
As to the solid-state hard-drives. I'd be MORE nervous using them, not less. We've got several lap-tops that have been dragged all around the woods for years. My wife uses them for home-schooling, while I'm cutting. We've had no failures worth mentioning. I just had to put a new HD in her 3 year old Toshiba Satellite. Stuck her's in the fridge, booted and cloned. Stuck in a new 500 GB drive for $50.
It is very rare when a hard-drive fails completely, all at once. Hard-drives are partly mechancial and often give warnings when they start to fail during the boot-up stage. Many times, all you have to do is stick a lap top in the fridge, bang it, then boot it up and save all the data.
Electronic drives - if they crash - lose everything, instantly. And, condsidering the price right now? A 1-gig solid-state drive can cost over $200-$300. I can buy a new conventional hard-drive at 500 GB for $50. I can buy a new 1.5 TB drive for $150.
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