Or don't buy an OS at all. There are a number of vendors out there that
sell OEM notebooks without OSs. I picked up a Compal IF90 with
WSXGA+ (1680x1050) for a good price.
--paul
Yi Zhou wrote:
> I think we are all using Linux, so just choose the cheaper OS (you have
> to delete it anyway).
>
> Yi
>
> On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:11 -0500, deena wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I am about to buy a laptop and find that the XP is twice the price of
>> Vista. Does anyone have positive experience using Vista for
>> crystallographic packages: CCP4, Coot, O, X-plor? or must I still
>> avoid it?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Deena
>>
>> Deena Abells Oren, PhD
>> Manager, Structural Biology Resource Center
>> Rockefeller University
>> 1230 York Avenue
>> New York, NY 10065-6399
>> phone: 212- 327-7429
>> fax: 212-327-7389
>>
>>
>
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Research Associate
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The University of Texas at Austin
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