New Vista on Old Hardware
If you haven't heard enough about Microsoft Vista (the latest Windows version released back in January) to make you cling to your XP version for dear life, here's a little more fodder for your fears. Ars Technica (great techie web site, by the way) did an informal experiment on what happens when you upgrade a variety of older PCs with Vista. The surprising part: the fairly new IBM Thinkpad did not fair as well as the five year old desktop for the home user. Sinatra was right. It's just a crazy, cuckoo world.
Renee Oricchio is a technology writer and former supervising news producer for CNN Financial News. She has been covering the computer industry since 1987.
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