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Posted in Vista on March 28, 2007 at 1:37 pm

I’ve just handed over money for a laptop. I won’t be able to actually lay hands on the thing till Sunday — and I only belatedly realised it’ll be April Fool’s Day, so there will undoubtedly be something hilariously wrong with it — so in the meantime I’ll just be stewing in anticipation.

There’s one thing about the soon-to-be-mine computer that both excites and worries me, though. While the Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB of RAM are thrillingly up to date when compared with my current set-up, the problem with buying a new computer nowadays is that they tend to come preloaded with Windows Vista.

Happily, I’ll be running Home Premium, rather than the cheaper Home Basic, so it shouldn’t be an entirely unpleasant experience. It might even be kind of fun; after all, even Micro Mart’s own damning cover feature on 2007’s most pointless upgrade concluded that if it were cheaper and worked with more hardware, Vista would be quite a good thing.

And since Simon’s even gone and bought a PlayStation 3, at least I won’t be alone in the using-technology-generally-not-considered-to-be-worth-the-asking-price camp.

Chalk this one up to “cautious optimism” for now, then