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Keep it or trash it?

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I bought a notebook second hand the other day off of CL. I was not informed it was broke. So take a look at the picture and tell me if you would trash the machine or not. The machine is still under warranty yet Acer will not fix it unless I pay them almost $300 dollars. The damage does not effect the machine's use except I thiunk the SD card reader is not working.

Thoughts?

 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting kona0197, reply 22
No I don't have a legit copy of 7. The one I have is a copy of a friends so I really don't want to use it. This machine gets a 4.5 score with Vista. I have 3 GB RAM. Is Vista really that bad or what should I do?
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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting kona0197, reply 22
Is Vista really that bad
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No, Vista is not that bad.  Just because a few journalist and armchair experts said so early in the piece, don't make it so.  I currently have Vista Home Premium SP3 running on this rig in a dual boot configuration with Win 7, and I can honestly say that I can hardly tell the difference, performance-wise. 

Besides, why run the risk of using a pirated copy of Win 7?  Apart from the zero tolerance thingy that Jafo alluded to, I read a few days ago that law enforcement in the US has been visiting the homes of people and seizing machines that MS detected as running illegitimate copies of Windows and Office. 

 

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting starkers, reply 27
Besides, why run the risk of using a pirated copy of Win 7?
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Vista is better than a pirated copy of Windows 7. (If you can't say something nice about an OS, do not say anything at all).

And that is all I have to say about Vista.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Vista :X I'd rather go down a razor filled slide naked

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Dr, reply 28
Vista is better than a pirated copy of Windows 7. (If you can't say something nice about an OS, do not say anything at all).
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I've been running Vista since the first public beta and I have never found it to be the pig some people claim it to be, and thus have nothing bad to say about it.  In fact, I quite like using it... especially in 64 bit and the way I have it set up to suit myself.  I'm using Tweak Vista to eliminate the annoying quirks of UAC, for example], and for me it is more than just usable. As stated above, I found little or no difference in performance  between Vista and Win 7 on this machine... though I'd say the recent addition of a SSD would have upped the performance of Win 7 somewhat.

Why dual boot between Vista and Win 7?  I like to  keep Vista on my rig for MS Office, Photoshop, PSP and other art/photo manipulation programs, and Win 7 for music and video editing, etc.  Hence I've not bloated either OS with too many programs all at once and therefore keep a sleek fast machine with fewer registry nightmares.

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Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top

Agreed with Starkers. I found Vista to be a big jump over XP, and 7 to be only a small improvement over Vista.

 

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Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting tazgecko, reply 29
Vista I'd rather go down a razor filled slide naked
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You´re funny |-)

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well I ended up back with the Acer due to issues with the HP. No big deal I guess. Sooner or later I will get a newer notebook.

Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Kitkun, reply 31
Agreed with Starkers. I found Vista to be a big jump over XP, and 7 to be only a small improvement over Vista.
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It is (a big jump) and so is 7 (a minor bump).  7 is Vista with the bug fixes.  I used Vista for 18 months and am not sorry to see it go (just upgraded to 7 last month).  The difference is very refreshing.

Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top

Personally, my only complaint with vista was the 2gb ram usage.  I like both OS' other than that.

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