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I wouldn’t recommend Vista.

XP. Home Edition or Professional.

Vista is ok once you get over the learning curve - but thats a good spec, i’m assuming homework doesn’t involve any graphical work on the computer otherwise you may wish to invest in a graphics card.

Other alternatives to vista are linux flavours with Ubuntu being the most popular - best thing is its free

Don’t touch Ubuntu, it’s a mess.
I’m not bad with computers myself but, frankly, it’s not worth the hassle.

The specs seem ok, though personally I’d look for a slightly better quality CPU and also a discrete GPU.

Vista hogs up RAM and crashes almost as much as a Mac does. XP is the safest bet. Linux is only good for die-hard programmers.

Ubuntu has a learning curve yes - but its not a ‘mess’ - you can download it for free and burn it to CD and try it without having to install a thing Linux used to be jsut for die hard programmers yes, but now it has a much better user interface and i would say it is better than vista

Vista is ok.
I use XP myself but there’s nothing wrong with Vista so long as your hardware is up to scratch.

silent moonlight wrote:
Ubuntu has a learning curve yes - but its not a ‘mess’

Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion but having used Ubuntu, I won’t be making that mistake again.

@Belle: the specs you’ve listed should be fine for what you need to do.

A GPU is a graphics processing unit - your computer listed above has intergrated graphics, which are ok, but if you want to do any gaming or anyvideo editing/ 3d modeling will not be good enought. You can buy cards called graphics cards or GPU’s which will give you better ability to render images onto the screen.

I am still using my etch a sketch!

littlenick wrote:
I am still using my etch a sketch!

Easy to reboot if something goes wrong ;-)

I am still using the old version etch a sketch. The one where you have lift up the paper off the screen. I did not know that they had come out with the computer where you could actually shake it and everything would erase. What will they think of next? A Computer with graphic cards? Nah! It could not happen!

Anthrax wrote:
Linux is really more for […] people who like to customize their computers beyond the possibilities of Windows.

Now that I’m afraid I take exception with - I can customise my Windows machine at least as much as you can tweak any Linux distro and just as easily.
Not to mention the plethora of free programs you can get for Windows that aren’t available on less commonly-used OSs.

He he.
Sorry, I’m not trying to be condescending or anything but WindowsBlinds is nowhere near the full range of what you can do.

But you touched on a very important point - you need to use the OS you find best/easiest.
It doesn’t matter what anyone else uses, so long as you’re happy.

I would always advise someone to look at all the options before making a decision, as it’ll make it easier for you to find what’s best for you.
But, as I say, once you’ve found that, the rest of it doesn’t matter.

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