> From: Boris Liberman <[email protected]> > > I've Win7 x64 for my desktop at home and WinXP x64 for HTPC also at > home. Both work just fine. Now, being a programmer and not wanting > bleeding edge, my motto - if it ain't broken, don't even think about > fixin' it... >
We see things the same way, both being developers. :) > It seems that Win7 is stable, well supported and in general probably the > best OS MS ever produced. So I plan to stick to it for as much as I can. > My thoughts as well. Except maybe I could be persuaded to have an all-flash 15" Retina machine. In which case it'll be purely for photography related pursuits. > > I think that most of modern laptops can be downgraded from Win8 to > Win7... But you might want to triple check that once you zero on the > specific model or series that you'd fancy... It's the pain in the butt factor regarding that which is causing me to wince, unless it comes pre-configured. > >> However in that arena, I'm a little chagrined that they apparently no >> longer offer a 17" display. > > That's not Steve Ballmer's fault, you know... Though now that Sinofsky > is out, may be his aversion to Win7 will subside and 1-7" :-) displays > will be back en vogue... > > Boris Thanks. :) Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
