Blackout Days at Best Buy

[itself]

With the release of Windows 7 this week, apparently next Wed, Thursday and Friday will be blackout days at Best Buy. If you don't like crowds, you best stay away!

Apparently Windows 7 is pretty amazing. I am looking forward to getting it on my new netbook.

Lisa

[Aggie_Ama]

We got a free upgrade with our new computers, what are blackout days?

[Zen]

My computer conked out and I had to get a new one with Vista.
Vista sucks hard.
I will probably upgrade to W7.

[Jolt]

My computer conked out and I had to get a new one with Vista.
Vista sucks hard.
I will probably upgrade to W7.

If you think Vista is bad, you must not have had the misfortune to have a computer that came with Windows ME--that one created an even stronger vacuum! My computer in college came with that OS and it was always crashing.

[ny biker]

I'm not having any problems with Vista. But I get a free upgrade to 7 since my laptop is only a couple of months old.

I plan to wait awhile to upgrade because I want to make sure all the drivers I need have been upgraded.

[Zen]

I don't think Vista is very good for photo filing. That's my major beef.
I'm really going to need it when I go back to school in January as a Digital Media major.

[Yelsel]

If you think Vista is bad, you must not have had the misfortune to have a computer that came with Windows ME--that one created an even stronger vacuum! My computer in college came with that OS and it was always crashing.

I had to support my mom's computers on Windows ME for quite a few years (she is an independent contractor). The only reason I didn't switch the OS is because I could fix most things through DOS at that time, and Windows ME sucked so much that no one bothered to write computer viruses for it (it was that different from the other operating systems.) So ME was kind of useful in its own way.

Now she's moved on to a Mac, hurrah! Now I can fix things in Unix if necessary... and remotely... and best of all I never had to deal with Vista / loss of DOS (My first OS was DOS 1.1, truly! But of course I've dealt with many OSes since then... VAX, Unix, AS/400... I switched over to the Mac platform for OSX / Unix).

[itself]

The Toshiba mini netbook is getting RAVE reviews, so check it out. Please be aware that some netbooks will only have Window 7 Starter Edition, so check out which version is on it before you buy!

Lisa

[makbike]

A silly question so I apologize upfront. How do you know if you get a free upgrade? I purchased a new computer in August of this year and it came with Vista, does it qualify?

[Cataboo]

It would have had a coupon in the box if it did.

My brother's been using win 7 for a couple of weeks, he loves it. He did the upgrade from vista.

I never went to vista, so I'm debating whether to make the jump to 7 or not...

[Kano]

my laptop has been misbehaving of late, and I can't figure out what's going on. The choice is to do the "restore to fresh out of the box" thing and reinstall everything -- and all the updates -- or to start with a new laptop. I still have to install everything and all the updates, but at least it's on new technology and new parts, if the problems were to turn out to be hardware related!

I'm leaning toward the new laptop. DH says, "you don't get a new computer!" I think he wants one too!

Karen in Boise

[Cataboo]

The netbooks have gotten so cheap - maybe you're allowed a netbook and not a computer.

Last christmas, I replaced my laptop (8 lb behmouth from 2001 that mostly worked fine, pieces of plastic case falling off) with a little dell mini netbook... and seriously, I've only booted the laptop up a couple times in the last year... because the mini is more than enough for what I need and sooo light in comparison. I do have a nice desktop though...