Windows Vista --> Windows 7

[rowanp25]

not completely legal (from what im told) but look up the Osx86 project! mac os on x86 hardware

[Big G]

which shortcuts are irritating?

[Dunc]

Maybe you and I define hardware differently. I thought a chip/processor was a piece of hardware?

Admittedly I don't know the details and maybe there are some subtle differences to the main hardware components, but I still think your statement of "mac's don't use PC hardware at all" is far fetched.

Please don't think I'm trying to knock Apple users or computers, just expressing an opinion.

Originally Posted by Dizzie

Dunc show me a windows based laptop that has exactly the same internals as my macbook pro then.

the OP said macs are using the same hardware as PCs now. which they aren't. it's just made by the same company. it might use the same chips, but it's not the same hardware.

[Kit Jones]

If you are at or about to start University for a computing degree then try to find out if your Uni is part of the MSDN academic alliance. If they are then you may be able to get Windows 7 (and Vista / XP) without directly paying for it.

Better still, 7 has already been released to MSDN so it is already possible to get the release version which I am currently using as I type this!

[Danosborne6661]

I haven't read through this thread, just your first post Cris,
If you purchased a laptop with Vista on from June 2009 onwards your entitiled to pick up Windows 7 for free

Your laptop has to have Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate though, if it only has Home Basic you don't qualify for a free 7 upgrade.

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by c0sie

So let me get this right....

I spend £500 on a laptop last September for Uni, comes with Vista which im lead to believe (at the time) is better than XP yada yada yada.

But now Vista is being phased out as its actually shite and at some point in the future ill end up having to buy '7'?

Without getting into the boring "Windoze is teh sh1t3st" debate, what are my options with Vista? Will their still be updates and support or is '7' the only way to go?

Should have bought a mac and used boot camp to have two hds and installed windows xp on one which only cost me £60 as vista is not all its worked up to be. Xp is still at amazon so may be a good alternative.

Windows are phasing out all old hardware so they can make more money from us, which is why im now going down the apple route as they dont change as much and updates are free.

[Big G]

old apples on current OS releases still work really good. Mine at work is a 1.8ghz with 2gb of ram and it performs flauntlessly.

I have this macbook pro running boot camp with XP on the other partition for playing Left 4 Dead when I feel the need to kill some zombies hehe

42 days uptime now hehe. Will probably only restart when I upgrade to Snow Leopard