{"id":175,"date":"2007-05-13T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-05-13T19:45:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T02:45:37","slug":"more-laptop-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"More laptop issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d gotten it all figured out, but apparently not. I was going to get a Vista-equipped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopping.hp.com\/series\/category\/notebooks\/dv2000t_series\/3\/computer_store?jumpid=in_r329_personalization\/browse1\/home_SDP\" target=\"_blank\">HP dv2000 series<\/a> and downgrade it to XP. Now I see a story that says <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/techblog\/archives\/2007\/05\/hp_driver_dance_from_vista_to_xp_youre_on_you.html\" target=\"_blank\">you can&#8217;t necessarily do that<\/a>. Now, the dv2000s used to come with XP, but I have no guarantee that the parts have not changed since they started shipping with Vista. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumpc.com\/article\/It--s-Hard-Out-There-for-a-Power-User\" target=\"_blank\">Will Smith<\/a> warned me of this potential problem). I asked HP if the machine I was looking at could come installed with anything other than Vista, including nothing at all. I was told, robotically, that they come with Vista.  So I have no way of knowing if my plan would work or not. If there are no drivers for XP, I&#8217;d be screwed &#8212; especially since they don&#8217;t give you Vista on a CD. It&#8217;s just on your hard drive. If I install XP instead and wipe the drive, then I&#8217;m left with a Vista-only machine but no copy of Vista. Is it me or would that totally suck?<\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m back to looking at Dell, which has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/products\/features.aspx\/latit_d620?c=us&amp;cs=04&amp;l=en&amp;s=bsd\" target=\"_blank\">a model for about the same price<\/a> that can come preloaded with XP and can store two batteries at the same time, which I loved on my earlier Dell. (I wore it out.) They use D620s at work so maybe I can get some hands-on time for an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m terribly vexed. And I guess I&#8217;m not ready to buy after all, even though I have some business trips coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d gotten it all figured out, but apparently not. I was going to get a Vista-equipped HP dv2000 series and downgrade it to XP. Now I see a story that says you can&#8217;t necessarily do that. Now, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}