Dell can't make hand-built Vista machines

PUNTERS WAITING for Dell to custom build high-end hardware with Microsoft's new Vista operating system might be waiting for Godot.

According to Information Week, Dell has been forced to admit that two of its top end custom built gaming machines can't run Vista.

Two of Dell's high-end PCs, the XPS M1710 notebook and the XPS 710 desktop, both gaming computers, are still shipping with XP because of driver incompatibility with Vista.

A spokesDell said that there were some compatibility problems with some of the peripherals. Dell said that this was the same sort of problem that every hardware outfit has when there is a major shift on an operating system.

However that has not stopped Dell recommending Vista for products that can't use it. Information Week tells the sad story of a bloke who wanted to buy a Latitude D420 notebook because it was recommended as Vista compatible. Then he discovered that all he could have on the laptop was a Bluetooth hardware, a DVD burner and an Intel processor with biometric reader, nothing else would work.

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