Re: Vista reference in Newsweek's article


"Chuck" <cdkuder@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The biggest problem I've observed is that too many OEMs sold P/Cs &
Laptops that marginally meet the requirements for Vista.
(And worked quite well with XP.)

The early XP machines were marginal also. Usually a lack of enough memory.
But back then, memory was expensive.


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