Windows Vista is a piece of...

[popowich]

If you pay extra Dell will give you Windows XP

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-Raymond

[Code Monkey]

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

[margerine_12]

That's sorta' funny, mine run wonderfully on my old computer

(1 gig of ram, Radeon amd x300)

[Calash]

Quad Core is not the same as 4 processors

That being said I never really pushed my beta of Vista, however the resource usage was quite high....Aero is just a pig.

Been running Ubuntu for months now with an XP VMWare session and Cedega/Wine for my games. A bit of a challange now and then but the system is very stable and quite fast.

[G0F0RBR0KE]

God, your computer must hate you.

I'm running at least 504 MB of Ram and yet I'm running Window Vista. Not to mention it runs smooth.

I'm going to get a 2GB worth of RAM later on.

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by EvilAkuma

God, your computer must hate you.

I'm running at least 504 MB of Ram and yet I'm running Window Vista. Not to mention it runs smooth.

I'm going to get a 2GB worth of RAM later on.

You can probably never imagine the perfonmance difference i have between any linux distro and vista.

[derekivey]

Vista runs great on my computer:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2 GB DDR2 800 RAM
GeForce 7600GT
250 GB SATA HDD

[Ronak]

look @ my pc..its slowest of u all..but Vista runs perfectly in my PC

AMD64 Athlon 3000+
512 MB RAM
80GB HDD
GeForce4 MX4000 128MB Graphic Card..

Vista runs absolutely fine in my pc

[Norco]

Im running Vista Ultimate on a pc with 80gb hard drive, 2gb ram, Pentium 4 processor which was designed for XP, and it works very well. I haven't had any issues with my performance levels. The only thing I somehow manged to disable it from recharging the battery.. so to use it I have to plug it in every time. I have been using it for 3 months now too. The only thing I don't like is some programs aren't compatible with the graphics (areo) and boots it out to the old looking theme. But I haven't had any other compatibility issues, it runs smoothly, and I am a hard person on pcs!

But, when leopard does come out, I am migrating over to a macbook pro. Apparently everyone says to stick with a top of the line macbook because the pros over heat and such. I leave my computer on all day usually.. so it needs to withstand being on! I leave the laptop I am on now on all the time, so that would be a must. I personally thing mac is the way to go.. you can simply run bootcamp on it and access any windows program available.

Good luck with your next computer!

[da420]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

You can probably never imagine the perfonmance difference i have between any linux distro and vista.

This is truth.