Windows XP

[cornflakegirl]

Bad boy!
My husband does his computer shopping in secret too. Not whole computers, but bits for them. He doesn't tell me about them, because he knows I'd give him the third degree about why he needs it! Hence why we're only just upgrading to XP. He has a hard life!

 

[Smitty]

Emma, for what it's worth, I have Vista/Office 2007 Ultimate on my home laptop and have no problems whatsoever.

However, as mentioned with upgrading from XP, we did that to my wife's computer and all hell broke loose. She does mostly web work and her core programs like Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects, etc., weren't working right, so we reinstalled XP.

She does have Vista on her laptop and loves it though and it's good for her with regards to testing on other platforms.

I think her next step will be to run both on a virtual machine.

 

[RoryA]

He has a hard life!

Yeah, all husbands do...

 

[cornflakegirl]

You just wait four months, boyo - you ain't seen nothing yet!

 

[Richard Schollar]

It is lovely, but I just couldn't spend that sort of money. (And I'm not as weak-willed as Mr Schollar )

Weak-willed? I'll have you know I already have a devious and cunning plan to acquire Apple goodies gratis through luring an Apple fanboy out for a drink next week and nicking his iPhone when he's not looking....

 

[cornflakegirl]

Nonono - you can't have Rory's phone till January!

 

[RoryA]

Hah - rumbled!

 

[Richard Schollar]

Just to engage in a bit of Truby-esque thread misdirection: I really like the look of the 2nd gen iPod Touches. So the question is: can I live without web access?

 

[RoryA]

They do look good, and you can get 32GB.

 

[Richard Schollar]

or possibly wait a month or two and maybe get a 64Gb one (assuming one gets released). Then again I could be saying 'ooh I'll just wait a little longer to see what gets released...' every few months.

If only my trains offered WiFi - I wouldn't need to consider an iPhone then...

Sigh.