RE: Alternative to MCE?

["Steve Morgan" <smorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ooh, that's a balanced article, eh?

I've been running Vista on two machines since November; a decent dual-core
Dell Precision 9200 with 4GB RAM and a bottom-of-the-range Dell Inspiron
1300 laptop with 1GB RAM.

The Vista experience on them is great, Media Center included (though I've
not got TV cards in either of them). Can't recommend it highly enough.

Driver support is better than it was when XP was launched, IMO.

Lots of people whinge about UAC. They tend to be the ones who think that
it's a good idea to do everything with administrative privileges. I find
UAC
to be one of the best features.

I'd suggest upping the RAM to 1 or 2GB and adding a pen drive for
ReadyBoost.

Then, enjoy. I don't think you'll find better.

Steve



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Jamie Bennett
> Sent: 29 January 2007 11:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Alternative to MCE?
>
> I've seen a lot of things like this
> (http://apcmag.com/5049/10_reasons_not_to_get_vista)
and to
> be honest I'm not sure that my media centers are up to it
> without upgrading. The most powerful one is a XP 3400+ with
> 512mb of ram and I've seen info saying that 2GB of ram and a
> decent graphics card are a must. Maybe it will be a suck it
> and see experience but I was kind of hoping that there was a
> _real_ Linux alternative.
>
>
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Mark McCall
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:07 AM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Alternative to MCE?
>
>
>
>
> > I've been using Microsoft's media center for quite some
> time now but
> > with all the bad reviews I've read about Vista I'm unsure
> whether to
> > upgrade or not
>
> I have only read good things about Vista Media Center.
>