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On my home laptop I run Windows 7 Home Premium - Service Pack 1.
My corporate laptop is still running XP.
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I am just decommissioning our last XP PC.
That leaves 2 on Vista, 2 on W7 and 1 Lion.
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Got XP on the home PC, which is now 5 or 6 years old and slowing up rather, and got Vista :silent: on the laptop.

Might be getting a new PC at some point fairly shortly....not sure what yet, but it'll obviously have Windows 7 on it, which I've been told is way better than the aforementioned!!
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JAG wrote:Goes to show what a flop Vista was i forgot to mention it ooooohhhhhhppppppsssssss but please include Vista anyone

Luckily, the laptop with Vista is only used as backup and browsing etc now!! I thought XP was better, not that I'm at all experienced with this kind of stuff!!

I am looking forward to seeing what difference Win 7 will make though?!!

I've also got an Android smartphone!! :)
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win 7 home premium on 3 desktops (one 64 bit others 32 bit) and an acer timeline laptop on win 7 too. Quite like win 7, was happy on xp before that.

Main PC (dads!) is a 6 core phenom with 16gb ddr3 two 2tb hdd and a radeon 6870 with the OS on a SSD. You get a lot of Pc for not much money!
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Vista on the HP laptop i use for messing about on the web and pretty much everything else "home related" so online banking, paying bills, ordering watches 8) and that sort of thing. I run XP on a small Samsung netbook which i used to use when I travelled a lot for work and my employer has given me an old Dell running XP but its set up to run straight into the email server and shared drive at work so with a dongle or wireless connection i can access stuff wherever I am. By the way, work has promised to give me a new bit of kit of my choice and at the moment I'm edging towards one of the very thin lightweight laptops with a 13" screen. any suggestions?
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Leo David wrote: By the way, work has promised to give me a new bit of kit of my choice and at the moment I'm edging towards one of the very thin lightweight laptops with a 13" screen. any suggestions?
My work pc is a HP Elitebook - 13" screen - quite light and very robust. Perfect travelling companion. If I was getting a new one today, I go for a solid state drive - fast boot up and even more robust.
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Primary home office computers Windows 7 Home Premium.

My old laptop, now in my shop, is still running XP.
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2x desktops on Windows 7
1x laptop on Windows 7
1x desktop on Vista (keep meaning to change it as it sucks)
1x laptop on Vista
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Plus various iPad, iPhone, Samsung, etc.
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Main laptop on Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
Main desktop on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 x64
Media Centre on Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
2nd laptop is a Macbook Pro running Lion - only used for demos with VMWare as Apple is not that great
3 Physical Servers running Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2
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And Vista wasn't that bad. I used it a lot before upgrading to 7. It just got a bad press whereas Apple can do no wrong even though certain bits of the OS suck big time.
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JAG wrote:I think you will find if you install windows 7 on your Vista machine it will speed it up and make it a lot more stable "you may not have to buy a new 1" Think the £ you could save :lol:

The laptop is the one that's working fine though, although I wouldn't mind getting W7 on there.......isn't that gonna be a faff getting Vista off & W7 on??

We need to replace the main desktop though, which is old & slow now. I could happily stick with the laptop, but Mrs M types at about 300mph & hates typing in the smaller keyboard on the laptop!! :computer:
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You can buy a laptop and plug it into a bigger monitor and have an external keyboard and use it as a pseudo desktop with the advantage of taking it elsewhere to use as a laptop.
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ianblyth wrote:You can buy a laptop and plug it into a bigger monitor and have an external keyboard and use it as a pseudo desktop with the advantage of taking it elsewhere to use as a laptop.

Yeah, could do that, but quite often we'll both want to use it, so its very handy having both!!
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