>I have recently received some ads via email about a DELL Laptop called VOSTRO 1000; it seems like a good deal for $399, with 1 GB RAM, 120 GB of hard disk space. Has anyone else seen these ads? What do you think?
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>Are DELL's laptops any good any more? I own an HP Laptop and I like it but it seems way too slow for me.
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>You can choose either Windows XP or Vista. Which O/S would you think is best? I've heard so much bad about Vista, that it is slow when coppying files. Is this true?

And yes there is a serious Vista performance bug when opening Zip files and copying data across a network. Use something else for Zipping on vista for the time being (I use 7-Zip - it's free and works well).