Help Jae Find A Good Laptop

[Ray Jones]

Don't whack me over the head if this sounds dumb (I know far more about eyeballs than I do about anything computer-related), but couldn't you partition the hard drive and put XP on one of them?

Yes, that's possible, but depends.

 

(A) HP notebook don't come with an installation DVD-set, you have to use the HP "backup"-software-tool to create your own DVDs. The thing is, you don't get a complete Windows-installer, more like a reset-to-defaults thing. Basically you cannot even chose a partition to install to, it will just restore to what you had before the first power on and with that you might lose any other installed OSs, too.

 

I mean, it's a good thing for people who know more about eyeballs than about installing Windows on a notebook, but bad for people (like me) who didn't knew that eyes have balls, but know where to turn a computer on properly.

It's also kind of unfortunate for having two or more OSs installed.

 

(B) Buying a notebook which is Vista capable, and installing XP on it should give you a good performance boost. The software you already have is for XP anyway (assuming you already had XP) and why buy new buggy Vista software when you have something that works and that you already know at hand?

 

© Don't waste your time with maintaining two OSs to do the same thing, decide for one, do a proper setup so you can do everything you want and stick with it. Else you will sooner or later end up booting between the systems because system 1 has Outlook on it but system 2 has a working printer setup. Of course *I* have two systems installed, but one is to do everything fun and work, and XP for the couple of games I cannot get to work properly with Linux.

 

(D) Either way, make sure you're not using Norton for anything except to throw it somewhere far, far away.