![]() Vista really is a terrible resource hog worse than Windows XP, or Windows 7 or 8, but experience has shown me that if you feed it sufficient processor speed and RAM it can perform well. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer wouldn’t work with the McDonald’s Bell Wi-Fi sign-up procedure but the Windows version of Apple’s Safari web browser-shortcut right on the desktop-did the trick.Īnd did I mention the A900 was running Windows Vista Home Premium-the Windows 8 of its day? Windows was a bit fiddly about it but I was able to connect Colin’s elderly Compaq in only two tries! Not a half hour earlier an elderly couple could not get their iPad to connect to the McWi-Fi-par for the course at the Broadway and Granville McDonald’s. ![]() Would you prefer a Vista or a Windows 8 laptop? Ī 2008 review of the A900 by PCWorld Australia described the 17-inch budget laptop as “good enough” and seven years later Colin agrees. After the coal smoke cleared I could read the brand and model: a Compaq Presario A900-a 2008 “tank-top” produced seven years after Compaq “merged” with Hewlett-Packard. ![]() We fired it up at McDonald’s this morning. It’s a hand-me-down from a friend who got himself something better. ![]() Another binner friend of mine who’s been trying unsuccessfully to get himself a laptop for over a year finally succeeded last night.
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