T&T: MS Vista, A marine PC train wreck?

[Troy Leek]

You can always format the computer and install XP on it, but you will have to
have a copy of XP on hand to use.
I would seriously consider waiting for service pack one to come out before
upgrading to Vista, XP was quite a mess when it first came out.



> From: jmlejets@gmail.com> To: meedy@sympatico.ca;
trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:15:12
-0500> Subject: Re: T&T: MS Vista, A marine PC train wreck?> > Good morning
listees!> It is a train wreck and probably going to be worse than we think as
we get> to know more about it.> I'm in the market for a new computer, probably
small form factor, but maybe> just a small off the shelf from Dell, etc. My
understanding is that all new> computers will have Vista pre-installed very
shortly. Is that the case, and> if so will it be easy or even possible to
uninstall Vista and reinstall XP?> I don't see Vista working on board, and
especially for long range cruisers,> in the foreseeable future. We are not
likely to have regular, and certainly> not continuous, Internet connectivity.
I want to be able to use my computer> at all times and with whatever has been
working with it so far, as well as> with all those wonderful gadgets and
utilities I haven't added to date.> Where do we go with this?> Best regards to
all,> Michael Liddle> captmike@SharetheCruise07.com> > SNIP> <One issue for
the marine enviroment is that VISTA needs an internet > connection to validate
the installation.> There are also reports surfacing on the message boards,
that if VISTA loses > connectivity to the Net, it will start to shutdown after
a period of time.>> > > Mike Eedy> North Bay ON>
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