HP and Vista

More woes from HP. I, as many others, bought a HP laptop with an AMD64 processor. Vista was in beta and the 64 bit version promised a breakthrough in memory management and even some in speed. The beta works great. When Vista is released, I purchase Vista Ultimate and am rudely surprised to find that MOST of the hardware on the machine is NOT certified, even though it worked in the beta. Of course, I contact HP who offers to sell me a NEW machine, but tells me I am out of luck with that one. The 32 but version installed fine and the drivers worked just fine, but the 64 bit version was hosed.

Oh well, back to the Thinkpads when it is time for my next purchase.

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