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I'm going to buy a new PC in about 2 hours, so I need to know, what do you guys reccommend?

I'm gonna try to get 64bit CPU and at least 1GB of ram..
I want of course the builtin network card and such..

for Vista, should I get it or not..I've heard bad things about it, but should I just accept it as an inevitability and get it?

edit:
I have my own 256mb PCI geforce graphics card, so no worries on it

Vista has its drawbacks, but remember you can always revert to xp if you find its that bad, which I really don't think it is. However, Id recommend getting 2gb of ram, if you really want to see vista in all its eye candy glory.

I finally got it, and put on a lot of stuff like FF and such..
the bad thing is that it warns about..well everything, it even warns about itself(try going to computer management)

I only have 1gb of ram, but it enough.. The only thing that is slow so far is the thing for switching windows(where it tilts them)
this has a bit of lag..

I got a DualCore Athlon 64bit cpu also.. and a huge 250gb hdd

Also has lightscribe..but I have no idea where to buy media for it

you can buy media at newegg.com..

I love vista, it feels like it's just working better than xp.. I wouldn't say it's particularly faster, but it's I guess.. smoother.. And it's not running any slower.

I did some hardcore work on it for the first time today and I'm quite impressed. I only wish I had more workspace room on the start menu bar, with media player going on the toolbar i can only fit four windows on the taskbar, so my ie windows get bunched up and my folders do as well.. I can turn off grouping but then I gotta scroll which I hate worse

I dunno if one of those multi-desktop programs like http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ work for vista, but that would solve my issues if it were speedy.

Anyways, about the multitasking, I have dreamweaver 8 going w/ a bunch of ie windows opened up, and running gimp on and off to edit images. It works as good as xp ever does when I'm workin..

Only issue is not all software works for xp, but the software I use all works, so I don't have an issue.

You can dual boot w/ xp (which I'm doing), but I haven't needed to load xp for anything as of yet.

Oh yeah, and aero glass is the coolest thing since sliced bread I'm a sucker for pretty interfaces, which I think is almost (but not quite!) as important as usability.. This is 2007 after all, not 1985

Oh yeah and the warning prompts don't bother me in the least, I'm used to entering my password 1000 times a day at work, so it's cool with me to finally only have to push "ok" for once It does give you a sense (possibly a false sense? Hope not) of security.

And as for hardware recommendations.. Core 2 duo is the way to go, hands down. If you're getting vista, make sure you get the proper version for what you need. Also, from what i understand vista has a lot of issues w/ gfx cards drivers, make sure you research that yours will work properly before commiting.

What's the obsession with Intel suddenly? Why not an AMD 64 Dual Core?

I bet he just meant a multiple core processor...

only bad thing about it is that some buttons and such don't look good with some programs, because they relied on it being a usual color, and without the color, it just doesn't look as good

Because intel performs better for the money.

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Well, thats how linux works.. You can also disable the security, just like in linux.