Dell

[RiverRat]

Just wait till you need that in home service. We bought 2 and both would last about 4 months. All the tech guy could do was replace the mother board. After the third replace on both they just take their good old time getting to you, like a week and a half. We replaced that garbage with HP and have had no problem in over 3 yrs.

[ReddyWatts]

I knew that all of the computer manufacturers were having major problems since the new Vista operating system came out. I still have not used it on any of my computers at this point.

[SJFE]

Steven I would return it just becuase of the line of crap the sales rep gave you on the deal. The last 2 machines I have bought for people have come from BestBuy. I started doing that becuse IMO it's easer to just take it to them or have the Geek Squad come out to the house for service. Another suggestion I have been giving is off leases from ebay. Primarily because you can get great machines with windows "XP". I have 1 or 2 people a month call me with questions about "vista". I refer them to the 1-800 Baboo tech suport system. I don't even want to learn it. Feel free to call me man & I will find you a sweet ZD8 or 9000 on ebay.

[mike a.]

We have 3 hp's and only one has had a problem which is my brothers. He called tech support and they sent him a new harddrive within 2 days of that call. But other than that all have been good computers. My computer has xp with a vista upgrade but im not going to upgrade it just because of all the problems that I heard and xp works just fine so there is really no need to upgrade

[Steven Vaccaro]

Well I called dell yesterday morning to speak to my sales rep to fix this issue, only to be disconnected by their phone service after about 30-35 minutes on hold. I gave up and called returns. Told returns I wanted to process the laptop for return, he ask the problem, I told him and within 5 minutes I had what the original rep said I was getting. LOL

[SJFE]

Good for you. With things going tht way they are I am sure losing a sale is not an option..

[ace028]

I upgraded my system to vista, and I REGRET IT. It has some cool features, but is slooooow. I had 512 mb of ram when I did it so I bought the max amount for my computer which is 2 gb of ram, and I didn't really notice a difference. I wish I could switch back to xp but the recovery cd was on the hard drive and when I installed vista it of course was erased.

[Rex R]

Ace try giving your comp's tech support a call, they might be able to supply you with a set of cd's(at a price of course). when my HP's hd was failing I was able to get a set of recovery cd's from hp(in preperation for a replacement hd). iirc for my system it was 9 cds(then it turned out the new drive already had windows, etc. loaded).

[ReddyWatts]

Microsoft is finally releasing the "Vista" Service Pack 1 next week. Maybe there is hope for this operating system???

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=985&tag=nl.e622

[SJFE]

The only hope I have is that it quietly goes away.

[Steven Vaccaro]

I like it so far. It is a bit glitchy, but I'm patiently waiting for the service pack.