Was hoping someone could help me out with a quick question. The gf wants a new Dell laptop. She's got it narrowed down to the Studio 15 with the
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6400 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache).

The system comes with either the 32 bit or 64 bit OS. Is it better to go with the 64 bit with regard to upgrading to Windows 7 or shall I bail on Vista altogether and go with XP instead. I've been following the Windows 7 thread and there has been some discussion about possible problems upgrading to Windows 7 from Vista?

Help me out here? I'm a business analyst / programmer but I don't know much about putting systems together.

 

is your gf pretty?

 

post nudes.

 

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64 bit should be better performance than 32. With respect to Win7, it shouldn't make it easier or harder to upgrade.

If you plan on going to Win7, I would stay on Vista right now. I think Vista is better than XP anyways, other than its performance. But you've got a new machine so the performance part shouldn't matter a whole lot (unless she's playing video games or using photoshop).

There shouldn't be any problems upgrading from Vista to Win7. There might have been upgrading from Vista to Win7Beta (but thats part of the reason why its a beta).

 

 

For me, Dell tech support has been the worst in the business, on one expensive laptop, we spent more repairing it than it cost

 

i have a mac (thank god), but everyone i know who has a dell says that their dell is a piece of shit. my sister has a 2 year old dell laptop (i dont know which model), and her 2nd battery is about to die, and it freezes when you close it.

macs ftw.

 

My old Dell laptop has been running fine for over five years now. It's had the mb replaced once due to the fans running all the time, a new keyboard and screen but that's it. Oh, and the keyboard and screen (and whatever else they replaced - it cost me nothing) was due to a bottle of water being poured into if by a seven year old turd - not mine. Little fucker is lucky I wasn't there when it happened.

I have no problems with Dell, and to be fair I've seen my share of Sony, HP, etc. laptops take dumps too.

Disclaimer: My personal machine is a MBP.