Alteer and Vista

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Tom,

I bought a new desktop last month, with Vista (XP was not an option unfortunately), and Alteer

works ok on it. Just a few issues with logging in and closing Alteer on

that machine, and some different icons/numbers showing up on menus, but

otherwise ok.

A. Eads, M.D.

Pinnacle Family Medicine, PLLC

phone fax

P.O.

Box 7275

Woodland

Park, CO 80863

www.PinnacleFamilyMedicine.com

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Piergallini

Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 9:39

PM

To:

Subject: RE:

XP vs Vista etc

People hate vista because you have to spend $1500 on a new PC to

make it run.

I bought a quad-processor 2.6 with 4GB memory last

December. Vista runs great.

Some of my peripherals? Useless. My $200 portable

scanner is unsupported. Period.

High end graphics? Good luck. Does an EMR need

graphics? No.

Our practice runs on 512MB Pentium 2.4 Ghz.

Shall I spend $200 per PC for memory upgrade? No.

My practice vendor Alteer, does not support Vista,

for 2 years now since vista Beta?

Terrible. Silly Alteer.

Vista is

awesome. But my advice? Buy a macintosh if you can, windows only if

you must.

Much advice on this forum using linux. Too much time for

non-geek to set up linux.

Buy your new system with Vista

installed, you will have little problems.

Upgrade to Vista,

HA! Just say no.

Laptops? JUST SAY NO! If you can avoid them, do not

use them. I have gone through 5 laptops in as many years. They

simply wear out and break.

Check out the Asus linux laptop if you need to carry something

in the exam room with you…

-tom

From:

[mailto: ]

On Behalf Of Malia, MD

Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:04

PM

To:

Subject:

XP vs Vista etc

I'm

considering new laptops as 3-yr warranty for my Toshiba Tecra is winding down.

I'm not up-to-date on pros/cons for the systems available. So I'd love to

get feedback from the group's many experts.

I've heard so many negative things about Vista,

but I really don't understand what the details of the problems are.

Looking through the Toshiba laptops online (I'm really considering getting

another Tecra model), I see that most all of them have the Vista Business

system installed. I could customize so the XP system is installed and

ready to go ($50 option).

I wonder if the Vista problems have been

ironed out, or are there still a lot of problems to watch out for.

I wonder if getting the Vista, but having the

XP system ready to go makes more sense.

Thoughts?

Thanks for any help.

Tim