Since then, I’ve had registry problems, my mouse drivers consistently fail on startup and have to be deleted and reinstalled EVERY TIME I START THE COMPUTER, and frequently, for no reason at all, every program I use fails to respond for some reason.

I’m a Mac user since the very beginning, and I’ve NEVER had these problems with a Mac. When my last Mac died of old age and heavy workload, I ended up having to buy a Compaq Presario because I just didn’t have the dough to buy another Mac laptop. I had PC software since VISTA RUNS ON MAC, so I thought, “what the hell”.

After having made a living on both machines, I can now safely say that Windows Vista is the biggest piece of sh*t I’ve ever used, without question. I NEVER had these problems on a Mac. I never knew a computer could have problems like these. I spend 1/3 of my time troubleshooting problems on this crapbox, when all I ever did on my Mac was work.

I bought the Compaq out of desperation because it was way cheaper, but now I know why it was so cheap. I’ll never throw money away on another PC EVER AGAIN. The money I’ve lost wasting time troubleshooting problems and recovering from crashes (when I should have been working) would have more than paid for a Mac laptop AND a desktop. And I can never get my wasted time back. One thing’s for sure. I’ll never buy another one.

The point>>>>If you dont like vista dont use it. What else is there to say?

What concerns me about Microsoft and their MS Windows operating systems is that they have created a a monoculture.
I’m not unique in this claim (see http://www.blurtit.com/q337849.html ) but just imagine that a highly virulent and damaging software virus was created to exploit a common MS Windows vulnerability and started spreading throughout the world.
With so much of our modern way of life and businesses being dependent on computer systems continuous availability we could have a world crisis and recession.
It doesn’t bear thinking about should Al Qaeda get smart and develop such a killer virus.
So I will never migrate to Vista and have abandoned my Windows XP for GNU/Linux Fedora Core 6, soon to be Fedora 7. I can do everything on Fedora that I needed to do on XP with the exception of that Excel set of Macros I wrote for my financial investments that I need to convert to work on Open Office.

Microsoft is in trouble at home…They are fine in the corporations for now because companies cannot change their computer platforms too easily. It’s just too expensive a move for many reasons.

Anyway, I hung out at the local Apple store and the macbooks were flying out of the store. The people that bought them were giddy as they flew out the door with their new purchases. The store was packed full of people. My local Compusa has far fewer people shopping there than at this tiny Apple Store.

Bottom line: Vista SP1 will be the most important service pack in the company’s history IMO….

I’m using the ATP branded card. It was only $60 at Microcenter. It’s also compatible with my $20 ScanDisk 5-in-1 card readers.

The person you want to speak with is Eddie Ecklund in Peripheral Sales (Tustin, CA Store). He’s the man. You can email him at eecklund@microcenter.com.

Some of the benefits of this card is the claim it’s waterproof. So, if you take your laptop diving…

If I may offer another plug for Eddie who took exceptional care of me, he also sells 2GB flash drives and 2GB SD cards for $17 (1GB $9.99 respectively).

The SDHC card is a nitro-burning/forced-air induction sucking beast relative to the generic SD card. Best $60 I’ve spent in some time.

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All my old software ran on Vista Business except some OCR stuff that came with my Canon printer. Hardly any of it has a decent Mac equivalent.
Mark Davidson, what SDHC card did you get? I’m using a Dell Vostron right now as a stopgap until I buy a new PC in Oct-November, and what you’ve done sounds like what I want to do.