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Posted by: pmp6nl
« on: August 22, 2008, 08:22:53 PM »

Vista works for me, but I prefer Ubuntu
Posted by: ajekt
« on: August 22, 2008, 03:02:51 PM »

Old topic I know.

Check out Window's Mojave Experiment

I have used vista and its not that bad.  I think all the bad stuff you hear is just part of Apple's marketing plan.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOIq7jG1Byc[/youtube]
Posted by: sscamaro1967
« on: May 25, 2007, 08:42:56 PM »

Just a quick tip to those who think they want vista,   I would strongly recommend reading up on the hardware support pages to check compatibility first.  I had a freind that has a compaq R3000 laptop with a Nvidia Geforce 4 vid card in it and it was not supported, so check some pages  first, the main thing is going to be your video card.   I just refurbished an HP laptop and put in a new motherboard with an X600 and it is compatible...I think X300 is the lowest compatible ati, and NVidia FX series. 
Posted by: pmp6nl
« on: May 16, 2007, 11:29:02 PM »

Cool.

Campus Connection doesn't work that well anyway.
Posted by: sscamaro1967
« on: May 16, 2007, 11:22:36 PM »

Most, some games....TMNT and what not.....also my g/f sometimes watches tv online and CWTV will only work in XP, also i coulnd't get onto campus connection in vista today, but got into it on xp on a friends machine... but programs such as nero, most games, windvd, itunes and almsot any other normal program work flawlessly.... even DVD 95copy, which i thought would for sure have trouble.....  I like vista too because when i fresh build a new pc it finds the drivers almost inmediatly as opposed to xp i've had to get the disks out, or search online, of worst case have to get drivers on disk from another computer (nic drivers) because it wouldn't connect.   So i think in a couple months there will be several new patches and the few problems will be fixed.
Posted by: pmp6nl
« on: May 16, 2007, 11:18:16 PM »

Quote from: sscamaro1967 on May 16, 2007, 11:16:52 PM
Its not to bad actually, i've been screwing around with some of the settings and it seams just a bit more needy than xp.  I dunno but i think its a lot better, i haven't booted into xp forever now.   

Do most programs work with it?
Posted by: sscamaro1967
« on: May 16, 2007, 11:16:52 PM »

Its not to bad actually, i've been screwing around with some of the settings and it seams just a bit more needy than xp.  I dunno but i think its a lot better, i haven't booted into xp forever now.   
Posted by: pmp6nl
« on: May 16, 2007, 11:09:09 PM »

Quote from: sscamaro1967 on May 08, 2007, 03:50:41 PM
I don't have a mac, so not sure on osx, but i know that if your weary of buying a new pc because your not sure if you can trust vista, its safe... I  prefer it now over xp.  I still dual boot because its nice having a choice sometimes, and i didn't want to lose all my settings and such. 

If you do upgrade, i would suggest you have a very decent computer, nothing under 1 gig, 2 if you can help it. you'll also want to have a dual core processor, I just got a 3800+ but dual core would be much smoother, Vista is pretty needy, also if your looking at upgrading vista the bare minimum to go with would be home premium, don't even consider home basic.

You wonder why Vista is so needy.  I really have not seen anything that cool.
Posted by: Sal Atticum
« on: May 08, 2007, 03:55:05 PM »

Haha, I'm not wary of buying a new pc because of Vista.  I have a Mac that works fine, and I don't see the need to run Windows at all right now.  In the future if I upgrade and get a MacBook Pro, I might use Parallels to dual boot, but I don't think I'd want to use Vista because it sucks down resources.
Posted by: sscamaro1967
« on: May 08, 2007, 03:50:41 PM »

I don't have a mac, so not sure on osx, but i know that if your weary of buying a new pc because your not sure if you can trust vista, its safe... I  prefer it now over xp.  I still dual boot because its nice having a choice sometimes, and i didn't want to lose all my settings and such. 

If you do upgrade, i would suggest you have a very decent computer, nothing under 1 gig, 2 if you can help it. you'll also want to have a dual core processor, I just got a 3800+ but dual core would be much smoother, Vista is pretty needy, also if your looking at upgrading vista the bare minimum to go with would be home premium, don't even consider home basic.
Posted by: Sal Atticum
« on: May 08, 2007, 01:48:26 PM »

ooOOOOooo.

The one thing that jumped out at me from that was how much I dislike the taskbar now that I have the dock in OS X.
Posted by: pmp6nl
« on: May 08, 2007, 01:21:13 PM »

Linux!

Here is a nice comparison:

[youtube=425,350]xC5uEe5OzNQ[/youtube]

Posted by: sscamaro1967
« on: May 07, 2007, 11:55:50 PM »

I have vista ultimate on my desktop and vista home premium on the laptop, I personally prefer windows vista over xp now, if your computer can handle the graphics that Aero puts out its pretty cool. I got it for the laptop first, it works ok, but you gotta have at least 1 gig or ram, its pretty needy on resources, i've only experienced a few problems, the first was trying to play a few games, there are known issues with vista that make some of them not work... The other is that there are limited drivers for some twain devices, ie: my friends epson printer wouldn't work. 

The nicest thing though is that when installing a fresh copy of vista it searches for drivers a lot better than XP did, also it seems more secure as i've not had a virus yet..

The folders such as my documents and downloads and what not also seem more organized.

Posted by: mburtonk
« on: April 03, 2007, 07:30:09 PM »

A friend of mine is using it, but he just bought a brand new computer so his experience will probably be somewhat different than someone upgrading.  It looks pretty, but I haven't been able to get my hands in to play with it.

He will, however, be running some pretty serious geology software on it, so if Vista is going to crap out, I'm sure I'll hear about it.

I also heard on the street that they removed some firewire support, which is just weird.

It's disappointing that an operating system has become so bloated.  They should be working to streamline everything, not make it bigger.  Of course, I say this, and I'm running Mac OS X Tiger, which takes up a couple gigabytes on the hard drive.
Posted by: amyc
« on: February 06, 2007, 09:32:23 PM »

Has anyone upgraded to Vista yet? I heard it is out.
realistic
anything