SURVIVING WINDOWS VISTA #2: HARDWARE OBSOLESCENCE

Another major annoyance is the sudden obsolescence of hardware components. I "lost" a network card and my old and my old faithful Radeon 7500 to the Vista upgrade. Granted, my Linksys NIC was old for a network interface, so I was prepared to put it to rest. However, I am going to miss having 2 dual-monitor video cards in my computer, and being able to connect 4 monitors to it.

To be honest, I never used more than 3 at a time: 2 LCD screens and my 42" entertainment screen, but I was considering (although at the same time fighting the impulse) to add a third screen to my desktop. Fortunately I decided to postpone the acquisition of the new monitor, otherwise I'd have been really really pissed off.

Now I understand what people meant when they said you would need a new computer to run Windows Vista on it. Even though my workstations have always been "ahead of the curve" in terms of key hardware components, they have always been the result of recycling some of the older ones.

Some of the things I love about reformatting my hard drives and installing a fresh copies of the latest version of the operating system, is backwards compatibility: new OS installers will most likely contain updated versions of my drivers, and that would make it easier and faster to get started once the computer was operational. That's not case with Windows anymore.

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