On Dec 9, 2007 11:21 AM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2007 11:06 AM, Mario Mendes Jr <piclist@mmendes.com> wrote:
> > While Vista is nice looking and all, I have no current plans to migrate to
> > it for good.  XP is leaner, and apparently, according to this article, a lot
> > faster:
> >
> > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22031691/
> >
> > My test machine only had 384 M of ram, so I could not really tell the
> > difference since even XP Pro is slow on that much ram running on a Celeron
> > 1.8GHz.
> >
>
> You should read this. 384M RAM is too little for Vista. Even 512M is
> also too little.
>
> *********************************************************************
> http://www.dell.com.sg/vista
>
> Genuine Windows Vista(R)  Capable
>
> System Memory    512MB RAM
>
> Great for...
> Booting the Operating System, without running applications or games
>
> *********************************************************************
>
> Is this a joke? ;-) What is the use of that system?
>
> http://www.dell.com/vista does not dare to tell you the truth. But Dell
> Singapore is apparently telling the truth.
>

Therefore Dell Singapore actually offers XP now.
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=sg&cs=sgdhs1&l=en&s=dhs
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