It is amazing how many computers wind up in the trash because they didn't
keep up with Microsoft products. In the auto industry, they called planned
obsolescence.

There is a reason the Vista doesn't work on your 5 year old computer. IT WAS
PLANNED that way. Bill Gates and his buddies want you to get rid of your old
boxes, and buy new ones.

This is a windows box. I share it with people that don't want to learn
anything new. I figured out that every time Windows updates, it gets a
little slower. I think that is part of the plan, too.

Older computers run just fine on new versions of Linux. My 1998 500mhz
Celeron, runs good on a 2007 version of Xandros. My workbench computer is a
1.6ghz AMD Sempron box. You would think it would work with Vista. It runs,
but is horribly slow, and none of the fancy video effects work. That is my
ubuntu box. My laptop came with Vista. I ran Vista in it because of warranty
issues, but the warranty is going to run out soon. I wanted to install
ubuntu, but ended up with Mandriva because of hardware issues.

I went to a coffee shop a few days ago with the Vista installation. It took
8 minutes to start up, and 5 minutes to shut down. The whole time I was
there, it was downloading updates. It took forever to load web pages and
download mail. That was the last straw. I went there today with Linux
installed, and it ran great.