Billy Smith wrote:
"clifto" wrote in message
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Billy Smith wrote:
"clifto" wrote in message
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Or the owner not being able to afford a 900 terahertz 16-core processor
with 100 terabytes of memory.

What makes this interesting to me is that I paid 200 dollars for the
desktop
computer brand new out of the box at Circuit City.

Details, please. At that price point I could justify having a laptop
myself.

The first computer I ever booted Vista on was a friend's laptop, a
quad-core
Intel something near 3 GHz. It took over ten minutes to boot this almost-
brand-new-with-nothing-added computer.

Its never taken me ten minutes to boot any of my computers.

It's never taken me ten minutes to boot anything, including mainframes
or minicomputers, until that Vista boot. The only thing that ever took
longer was loading BASIC onto minis from paper tape in the seventies.
That took about 45 minutes at about four characters per second.

What I will
recommend is not to have a lot of stuff in your start menu

This was a brand-new laptop given to me by the owner's boyfriend for a
once-over and recommendations on virus/spyware/etc protection. The only
things that had been added to it were Kodak software and about 50 pictures.
I did describe it as "almost-brand-new-with-nothing-added".

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