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(More customer reviews)I bought the VOT132 without a Windows operating system installed in order to use it as legacy Windows XP computer. (I had a valid XP license and installation disk from an older computer I had retired.) Unlike ViewSonic's subsequent PC mini, the VOT125, the VOT132 has full driver support for Windows XP. I had to download the XP drivers from the ViewSonic website, but everything that I needed was there. Unlike some folks, I have had basically no noise problems with this computer.
My biggest problem with this computer is that it is underpowered. I mean this in two ways: first the processor (but that I can live with) and second the actual amount of power that seems to be available for the USB ports. (A computer this small has no COM ports or PS2 ports so everything depends on the USB ports.) About three months after I bought it, I started having the computer freeze during boot up. While this may possibly be a driver problem (although I am not sure how), it feels like the machine fails to boot properly because it doesn't have enough power. The workaround for the situation that I have at present is to unplug the USB cable that goes from my VOT132 to my KVM switch BEFORE I boot up in order to keep the computer from hanging just as the XP flash screen is displayed. Once the computer is booted up I can reconnect the cable and use the mouse and keyboard via the KVM with no problem.
While I am still confused about the source of my problems, it appears likely that using most of the six USB ports (as I am) is an invitation to start up problems.
(After close to two decades of using PCs running Windows, over the last two years I have moved to Mac OS X and Linux machines for almost all of my application and server functions. It is, however, unavoidable that some archived material-- such as old email-- can only be read on legacy Windows applications and a few programs-- like my current income tax and genealogy software-- only run under Windows. So this machine will both permanently archive materials that can't leave Windows and will provide a bridge for the next three or four years for running software I am not ready to replace with Mac compatible programs.)
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