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Originally Posted by Kihon Kata

(I posted this on my own site but I thought I'd post it here also)

Windows Vista is a piece of...

Ok, there I said it. Windows Vista is officially a piece of crap, IMHO.

Here's the story: I was running a 2 year old machine in my office and here was it's specs:

Intel CPU 3.6 ghz EXTREME Edition
ATI 850 video card
2 gigs of ram
2 Terabytes of hard drive storage running on Raid 0

ON this ^^^ machine, I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade. Cost me $259. After installing it, I noticed that it was roughly 1/2 the speed of Windows XP Pro, IF NOT SLOWER. After going through every performance tweak I could find, I finally gave up. So being pretty pissed off, I then purchased an ENTIRE NEW SYSTEM.

It's specs currently are:

Intel Quad Core CPU (FOUR processors in one), not 2 but 4, there isn't a faster computer available right now.
Gforce 8800 GTX 768MB video card
4 gigs of RAM
3 Terabytes of hard drive storage running on Raid 0

I actually bought a new machine in HOPES that VISTA would run faster!!. I figured by buying a new QUAD CORE (computer with FOUR processors) would help it's slow down issues. This last weekend was the last straw. I like to do allot of video editing, every time I loaded up a video of ANY SORT into ANY VIDEO program(Premier or even WMP), the system would slow down beyond beleif, to the point of having to restart the system.

So, I consider myself a computer expert and in this case, pretty much a Windows Expert, a definite POWER USER of computers. I reverted BACK to Windows XP Pro. Going backwards sucked hardcore and was very difficult to do, took me hours. there are many things I hated about Vista and will not be touching it again any time soon. In fact, I've decided that my next computer will prolly be a 8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation, but am waiting for the OS Leopard to be out for a year or so before I jump.

Don't jump on the amd vs intel bandwagon either, I installed it on another AMD system last week and still, slow as hell.

Hail to MACS

You can send me those old systems then as mine won't even run XP. LOL