I'm sorry I must have miss understood. You write for the Register but don't have the ability to read the specs of a €2k+ machine? *
Obviously your are getting too used to getting machines delivered for review.
IDE drives are being replaced with SATA slowly but surely you should now this. We are at SATA II now. Why would you want to put old technology in a new machine? The idea was to get rid of IDE because quite frankly it just isn't good enough, the fact that SATA still supports the PIO command structure is laughable.
Why was the buzzer Dells' problem? Sorry was that section relevant?
You should know better than most the issues surrounding Vista and driver support. Those people that use Linux have been suffering similar problems for years. Deal with it. Check the spec first and order something that is going to work.
Again, you say that everything in XP worked fine. Why upgrade if you don't need to. Vista has introduced a whole host of issues. Wait for them to be resolved like any sensible person and install it after service pack 1 or 2 and leave the beta testing to the home user.
* The Reg is obviously paying well, I'd love a job. If I can afford to order the wrong hardware because I can't be bothered to read the spec it sound like the job for me. And obviously you don't need to know the first thing about PCs or current technology trends. Oh bugger, I do...
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I'm sorry I must have miss understood. You write for the Register but don't have the ability to read the specs of a €2k+ machine? *
Obviously your are getting too used to getting machines delivered for review.
IDE drives are being replaced with SATA slowly but surely you should now this. We are at SATA II now. Why would you want to put old technology in a new machine? The idea was to get rid of IDE because quite frankly it just isn't good enough, the fact that SATA still supports the PIO command structure is laughable.
Why was the buzzer Dells' problem? Sorry was that section relevant?
You should know better than most the issues surrounding Vista and driver support. Those people that use Linux have been suffering similar problems for years. Deal with it. Check the spec first and order something that is going to work.
Again, you say that everything in XP worked fine. Why upgrade if you don't need to. Vista has introduced a whole host of issues. Wait for them to be resolved like any sensible person and install it after service pack 1 or 2 and leave the beta testing to the home user.
* The Reg is obviously paying well, I'd love a job. If I can afford to order the wrong hardware because I can't be bothered to read the spec it sound like the job for me. And obviously you don't need to know the first thing about PCs or current technology trends. Oh bugger, I do...