No Vista for our house

January 28th, 2007

I spent the weekend trying to recover a friend’s lost pictures from a hard drive failure, so I had lots of time to kill while waiting. I figured I would use the time by installing a shiny new copy of Windows Vista on our trusty old Dell Dimension XPS R400 that we’ve had forever. It’s the last Windows machine in the house.

I thought I would just plow forward with an upgrade from WindowsXP SP2 when Vista stopped me before I could get too far. It seems that the trusty old Dell supports APM and not ACPI, and Vista will not load without ACPI support. Bummer. I figured I would give it a quick run and see how it functioned, but this may signal the end of the road for Windows in our house as we have no plans to purchase another PC any time soon.

There is a chance I will purchase a new MacBook Pro in the next month or two, so ironically I may only get to check out Vista through OS X and virtualization with Parallels or VMWare.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2007 at 10:09 pm and is filed under Apple, Microsoft.