Are you looking forward to Windows Vista?

[ginger44]

MacPro is cheaper even in my part of the world with currency exchanges and many levels of mark up than the comparative PC.

I suppose that when the Mac ver of Xtreme is ready the good folks at Xara will be offering a generous cross platform upgrade ?? :-)

I'm afraid MS will not be getting anymore money out of me, they had a good run, I started withh Dos 2.2 !

[BlueFlare]

MacPro is cheaper even in my part of the world with currency exchanges and many levels of mark up than the comparative PC.

A few weeks ago I upgraded an old Pentium III 1GHz to the latest Core2Duo. Motherboard and CPU didn't cost me more than $275. That is for me the one and only reason never to buy a Mac (I also have to feed 6 people )

[remi]

Found this video about "Vista install in 2 minutes"

Remi

[aridzone]

I bought a new computer just before the vista release.
Couldn't resist 1024 MB ram, 200 GB hard drive for $350
considering my old system was happily running win 98!
I will be getting a free upgrade to vista but I don't think
I'm even going to install it with all the bad press I've read
about this new OS! Anyone want to buy it

[Don't have one]

Vista sounds like Win ME did. All talk and little real advantage. All at a price of course. Vance Packard wrote a book called The Hidden Persuaders many years back, about planned obsolescence. Seems Microsoft are aware of the concept.
Think I'll stick with XP for now, and learn Linux -- perhaps ubuntu.