Aah the joys of Vista

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[imaplanck.]

How much of your system resorces does vista take up?


XP is pretty expensive already(On my system running XP, I sometimes get the feeling that Pong would run slow on the left over resorces).


Microsoft product are a JOKE!

[Fatstep]

I have Vista and it basically is the worst OS I have ever used. VB6's compiler does not work for some reason, and some of the programs I make require moe than 10 sockets, so it blocks them, rendering my perfectly working programs worthless.

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by imaplanck.

...Microsoft product are a JOKE!

True. But nobody's laughing. :/

I have a new (one year old) HP desktop at home, running XP. Now, on the bright side, it crashes far less than any version of Windows I have ever run. And only slightly more often then the last version of Mac OS that I ran back in 1995.

But I turn it on, go for coffee, log in, go take a leak, open Exploder--woops, I meant Explorer, go discuss what's for supper with my wife, come back and click on Hypography.com. Frustrating. If Vista is worse, then For Get It. Ain't no Way. Sayonara Laura. I'll go back to my sliderule, first.

[Fatstep]

How is your computer so slow? I am running XP Pro, from the time I press the button until the time I have Firefox opened and on its homepage is less than 45 seconds...

My computer has over 100 Gb of DVDs and music, I just cannot comprehend how peoples' computers are so slow.

[C1ay]

This says it all....

[alexander]

lol C1ay, that is pretty true too...

Originally Posted by imaplanck

How much of your system resorces does vista take up?

aside from 470 megs of ram upon boot (670 if you are running the shiny interface and with transparency and stuff). It will probably lag on a P4 2.4Ghz proc and dont try running it without at least a 64 meg graphics card as now even solitare requires 3d acceleration... it requires like 6 gigs of HD space...

Pyro, you probably can run OS X on your HP desktop... I'd research, my friends are running it on a Dell Lattitude P4 laptop and a P4 OptiPlex Desktop and also an Acer Turion64x2 laptop.

Originally Posted by fatstep

My computer has over 100 Gb of DVDs and music, I just cannot comprehend how peoples' computers are so slow.

Firstly i'd keep that to myself, and secondly it has nothing to do with how fast your computer loads. unless you are running less then 256 megs of ram and a lot of programs start up and the FS is really, really fragmented, then it may cause longer load time, but in all reality its how people manage their environment, what they allow to start up, and all that. I've been able to cut people's loading time from over 5 minutes to under one...

[schlik]

Ah, finally someone who agrees with me, I'm fed up with people telling me how great Vista is, while all logical reason tells me how terrible it is. I can't count how many things I've read about the various glitches and other problems. As for "Service Pack 1" being released within of month of the Vista release, that just shows how glitchy it is, besides, tons of problems have appeared since then.

Anyone looking to buy Vista, I strongly urge you to reconsider. Most software/games designed for XP won't correctly operate on Vista.

Forget about Microsoft buying out the devil, Microsoft IS the devil. (Anyone who gets that reference, you rule.)

[alexander]

You guys want to hear a great story?
so today at work we got a dell restore dvd of vista and we decided to put it to use on this dell laptop (its like a 1.4 with 512 megs of ram)

so no aero glass (and that is the shiny interface addon) it takes up 7 gigs of HD space and 370 megs of ram. Fine its going whatever nobody cares, cpu is being used for no reason in the middle of it just sitting and idling there....

So one of our techs has a bright idea of connecting the machine to the internet and getting updates. It immediately flags a copy of vista is not verified to be genuine, but then while it attempts to verify the OS, it turns out that you cant do that with this particular build of vista and we get kicked... joy... so the control panel now opens to a blank screen or just blinks, no properties are available and at reboot you are prompted to either buy vista or enter another license number and try to register and verify it again. You cant even reach your files!

Developers, developers, developers, developers. (anyone gets that reference, you youtube. )

[Killean]

Hahaha! I just saw this ad on TV. At first I just shook my head with their commercials, but after this one, I think I'm starting to like them.

http://images.apple.com/movies/us/ap...ty_480x376.mov