[Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school

[ken price]

For what it's worth, a while back Harvey Norman had some laptops
reduced to $499.from about $800

I asked what was wrong with them

The store guy told me that they had Vista preinstalled and only 1G of
RAM. They ran really slowly with any decent application unless you
upgraded the RAM. HN were stuck with a warehouse full of them. So  -
discount time.

A few people here bought them, installed XP (bit of a hassle getting
some drivers apparently) and they ran brilliantly.

So perhaps the hardware requirements for decent performance make XP
look a better proposition for many schools at this stage?

Ken Price TASITE Tasmania.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jock Garnsworthy
> To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:06 PM
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] VISTA and your school
>
> Hi all,
> Slightly off topic, but I would like opinions with what schools are doing re
> VISTA.
> It was deployed over the Xmas holidays here and we have had no end of
> problems mainly with very slow speed issues. I am trying to convince powers
> to be to roll back to XP.
>
> Any comments ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jock Garnsworthy
> Williamstown High School
> Williamstown 3016