Windows Vista

#26
#26
I wish their SQL like filesystem that was originally planned for Vista had made it. I guess they never got it working how they'd like but it sounds cool and a potentially good idea.
 
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#28
I know i'm digging up a really old post but we did end up going with a pc and so far I really like vista....anybody have tips?
 
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crazyguy said:
I know i'm digging up a really old post but we did end up going with a pc and so far I really like vista....anybody have tips?
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Vista is a resource hog like XP was when it first came out. Let the hardware catch up for about 6 more months from now and I think I will probably go with it. :good!:
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
Vista is a resource hog like XP was when it first came out. Let the hardware catch up for about 6 more months from now and I think I will probably go with it. :good!:
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I doubt it.

Microsoft's developers still haven't caught up on how to effectively develop their stuff to multicore processors. Apple has far surpassed Microsoft in this respect.
 
#32
#32
The resource hog thing is a farce. The majority of people look at their memory used as being higher than XP's memory usage and draw a direct correlation to high resource usage as being bad since Xp performed so bad with high memory usage.

Vista memory pre-caches things it expects you to use, so when you do use them, they are pre-loaded into memory already, making it faster overall.

I've been using Vista since RTM (Nov. 06) and it was good then and has only gotten better as hardware vendors got their act together and wrote better drivers for it.

SP1 will be released in mid-March to the masses and fixes some performance issues like network file copies, etc.

Don't base your opinions on what you read on the intertubes however. Alot of bad things have been written about Vista because of how it "feels", and a good portion of those have been refuted with hard numbers.

The security enhancements alone should be a major factor in upgrading if you're one to go anywhere links lead you to.
 
#33
#33
If you like to game though, stay with XP. Gaming is still too buggy on Vista. Most games are still built on DX9, so until DX10 is what the developers chose to run things on stay with XP.
 
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HawaiiVol said:
The resource hog thing is a farce. The majority of people look at their memory used as being higher than XP's memory usage and draw a direct correlation to high resource usage as being bad since Xp performed so bad with high memory usage.

Vista memory pre-caches things it expects you to use, so when you do use them, they are pre-loaded into memory already, making it faster overall.

I've been using Vista since RTM (Nov. 06) and it was good then and has only gotten better as hardware vendors got their act together and wrote better drivers for it.

SP1 will be released in mid-March to the masses and fixes some performance issues like network file copies, etc.

Don't base your opinions on what you read on the intertubes however. Alot of bad things have been written about Vista because of how it "feels", and a good portion of those have been refuted with hard numbers.

The security enhancements alone should be a major factor in upgrading if you're one to go anywhere links lead you to.
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Agreed. People hate Microsoft every single time they release a new OS, but after a few years, people are fine with them. Same will probably happen for Vista.

The only one that has stood the test of time and sucked every minute of it is Windows 2000/ME.
 
#35
#35
ME was usefull because it was basically 98SE with a ton of updated drivers. I preferred using it the last year or two of installing 98 operating systems. I never had a problem with it myself. It gets a bad rap.
 
#37
#37
our company gave us all new laptops for xmas loaded with vista. i personally don't like it as much as the previous versions, as someone said earlier it boggs down to many avail. resources and i don't like the basic functionality of it.
 
#38
#38
From what I hear, the service pack is nigh and will fix a LOT of Vista issues.

The big thing Vista has against it right now is support for third party drivers, things like printers and such.
 
#39
#39
VolfanMike said:
our company gave us all new laptops for xmas loaded with vista. i personally don't like it as much as the previous versions, as someone said earlier it boggs down to many avail. resources and i don't like the basic functionality of it.
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If you got new laptops for business use and it's slow, something's wrong. I use a 1 1/2 yr old Dell that released before Vista (Sempron 3500+ CPU) and it performs very well for business use.

I've setup Vista laptops for several businesses and have always done a clean OS load before delivery. The crap the Vendors put on them is a large source of issues.

Don't look at resources used in Vista and make a direct comparison to XP's resource usage. They are not directly related.
 
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