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**Terrister** · 07-16-2007, 08:26 PM

I bought an Acer laptop earlier this year. It came with Vista. It ran ok. The User Account Control got on my nerves. Kept second guessing me several times a day. Finally I turned it off. The power management needs lots of work. Xp lasted a 1/3 longer on battery than Vista.

Also ran into problems running some programs. They either did not run at all or correctly with Vista.

I was lucky with this laptop. It had full driver support for XP. In fact, a month or 2 earlier, it was sold with XP on it.

I would hold off on getting a laptop with Vista until the 1st service pack is released. It should fix some of the above problems.

07-16-2007, 08:26 PM	#7 (permalink)
Terrister Moderator Hardware Forum Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: West Georgia, USA Posts: 7,098 OS: Xp	Re: If you were buying a NEW laptop would you ??? I bought an Acer laptop earlier this year. It came with Vista. It ran ok. The User Account Control got on my nerves. Kept second guessing me several times a day. Finally I turned it off. The power management needs lots of work. Xp lasted a 1/3 longer on battery than Vista. Also ran into problems running some programs. They either did not run at all or correctly with Vista. I was lucky with this laptop. It had full driver support for XP. In fact, a month or 2 earlier, it was sold with XP on it. I would hold off on getting a laptop with Vista until the 1st service pack is released. It should fix some of the above problems. __________________ Last edited by Terrister; 07-16-2007 at 08:29 PM.