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(More customer reviews)I bought this computer for a 3 person law office where one of the 2 lawyers is:
(a) an unrepentant miser "How often would we save 30 hours of re-typing?Not often enough to compensate for a $50 investment in OCR software!Never mind what the error rate is!",
(b) technophobic "I only have 10 years until I retire and I'm not going to learn computers!"
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(c) suffering from narcissistic personality disorder "How dare you suggest to me that business is about profit and not about cost!"
And the other lawyer is basically a saint.Opposites attract I guess.
For me, working for free, this kind of "Denial, ain't just a river in Egypt!" environment is pretty demanding.Anything you touch, you own.Anything you touch, you broke.Anything you change can and will be used against you in a court of miser-technophobe-narcissist-boy criticism.You know the drill.
The task should you choose to accept it is to pull 10 year old, a hopelessly virus infected ("Virus infected?How can it be virus infected? We didn't have it connected to the internet, we just used floppy disks and USB thmb drives to move files back AND FORTH!" to our other Windows XP machine with 2-year-expired anti-virus!") Windows XP machine, to re-insert a replacement.With miser-technophobe-narcissist-boy throwing gorilla dust in the air and the full pomposity of his gravitas around, the entire office runs with brains downshifted to the Limbic system (i.e., the part of the brain that re-plays reptilian behaviors during layoffs).
So, what I need from this computer is very important:
- It must be a true Windows XP box
- It must downgrade cleanly from Windows 7 Professional
- It must not look or behave in any funky alien ways to the Windows XP milieu.
I'm DELIGHTED to report that this Veriton X275 machine meets all my requirements!It has the same 5 pin DIN ports on the back for mouse and keyboard that the old XP machine had.It has plain vanilla VGA video out.It has gobs (7) USB ports.It even has a 9 pin Serial port!!! W00T!
What you need to know:
- The instructions on Acer's web site for downgrading are non-existent.I found a way to make the downgrade happen, but it isn't smooth.
- The trick is to set up an account on Windows 7 Professional, then run the install disk backup for XP, then change the boot drive to the CD, then boot off the windows restore DVDs (2 for XP) and restore Windows.No, this isn't in the manual or on Acer's web site.
- You are on your own.If your reinstall DVDs are toast, you will be hung out to dry and when you are, there is nobody to call and no help that I could find on the internet for getting you out of the fix.But, fortunately, I did not have this problem.
Machine is quick, quick, quick, running XP.The reboots to try and figure out how to get the downgrade to work (*Hint* neither of the + keys (on keypad and on top row) work in getting into restore mode in the firmware.Or, maybe I found the restore mode and only Windows 7 was available.YOYO: You are On Your Own.You have been warned!
No support, but this computer box rocks!I would have given it a perfect score if Acer had: (a) made downgrading to XP smooth, or (b) if Acer had valid instructions on how to downgrade to XP on their site.So, no love, no perfect score Acer!
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