Dell High End Computers Don’t Work With Vista - Yet!
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If you take a look at Dell’s website and check out their high end systems, you will notice that the systems are still running Windows XP and not Vista. Also of note, there is nothing mentioned about future upgrade disks being provided for Vista.
Dell does have a message posted which states:
“Windows VistaTM Coming Soon
While Dell continues to validate the compatibility of Windows Vista with popular gaming software & accessories, we will continue to offer XPS 710 customers Windows® XP operating systems.
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Offering easy photo editing, video management, access to online content providers, optional TV tuner1, DVD playing and more, Media Center helps you turn your PC into a complete entertainment solution. “
Seems that even Dell can’t get the correct drivers to support Vista for their hardware configurations. Which is a good indication that us ordinary folks may have trouble also. Though most new operating when first released are expected to have some compatibility issues as well as some delayed hardware drivers, it is still amazing to me that some hardware vendors have taken their sweet time releasing Vista drivers. I have said this before, for 5 years we knew Vista was coming, why was it such a BIG surprise to the hardware manufactures?
Comments welcome.
2 Comments
Kevin Wilson
July 4th, 2007
at 7:53am
I purchased an XPS 710 in March of this year, and never received my Vista upgrade. I was an avid user of DELL products before this, and over the years have thrown thousands into their coffers.
The number of hoops to jump through only to find out I still could not get the Vista Home premium upgrade I’d paid for, were all for not, and ultimately and foolishly I went out and paid for a copy. After doing so, I found out that this practically brand spanking new Quad core machine had upgrade nightmares with Vista. How is this possible more than 6 months into this OS’s lifecycle, and after all of the beta time?
DELL and it’s hardware vendors really put it to the consumers on this one. I may well have purchased my last DELL machine.
Ron Schenone
July 4th, 2007
at 9:21am
Hi Kevin,
It is strange that with all of the testing that went and also Dell getting Vista in November, that they were not aware that the XPS systems were not compatible with Vista.
Thanks for your comments, Ron