Re: downgrade a notebook from Vista to XP

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of customer service...I bought a new iMac Saturday. Jon's
post about the version of Parallels prompted me to go to apple.com
Monday. And much to my surprise...new iMacs were announced! I called
the Apple store, explained my situation, and brought in my 2.4 Ghz
iMac and picked up a 2.66 Ghz iMac. No cost upgrade. Handled quickly
and efficiently. It's one of the reasons I use Apples. Same reason
that I use POWER systems running i.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Kurt Anderson <kjanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was tempted to do this with my Toshiba as well, but hadn't gotten
>  around to it.  Thanks for the post, I'll have to check to see if mine is
>  capable (though with the horrible customer service I've experienced at
>  Toshiba, I doubt I'll get any kind of sane answer).
>
>  Kurt Anderson
>  Application Developer
>  Highsmith Inc
>
>
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>
> On Behalf Of sjl
>  Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:42 PM
>  To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Subject: Re: [PCTECH] downgrade a notebook from Vista to XP
>
>
>
> Mark -
>
>  If this is a new laptop, check with the hardware vendor before buying a
>  copy of XP and attempting to load it.
>
>  My nephew reformatted his new Toshiba and tried to load XP from scratch
>  and received errors.  After a call to Toshiba customer service, they
>  indicated that his particular model will NOT run Windows XP, only Vista
>  - so he had to reload Vista again from his recovery disk.
>
>  Needless to say, he was mighty pissed off...
>
>  - sjl
>
>
>
>  "Mark Villa" <iseries.4.me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>  news:mailman.18.1209385032.26217.pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Has anyone here downgraded from Vista to XP.
>  Can I do it via an internet download?
>  I am just looking for a pointer on what to do first.
>
>  I had heard that this was free.
>
>  --
>  Mark Villa
>  Summerville, SC
>
>
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