Vista hater here as well!! Brand new laptop doesnt like any of my EFI software. This thing has become fairly useless as Im afraid of interface issues with customers cars. So yeah after spending almost $1000 on this nice NEW STATE OF THE ART ha ha laptop I need to go buy one of them OLD XP laptops LOL
windows vista
- Thread starter kingnothing3
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DAG
Yes, my balls tickled from that landing
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
i'll buy that new one off your hands... 1/2price of course
I'v been debating this switch myself, planing on getting a hp dv9500t, dv9700t or a dell 1700 series lappy here soon before grad school. I cant stand using 800MB of ram just sitting idle to show off its not so pretty graphics. and through school xp comes cheaply at $10bucks a pop. I might go dule boot untill vista can run everything. or i find no use for one or the other...
I'v been debating this switch myself, planing on getting a hp dv9500t, dv9700t or a dell 1700 series lappy here soon before grad school. I cant stand using 800MB of ram just sitting idle to show off its not so pretty graphics. and through school xp comes cheaply at $10bucks a pop. I might go dule boot untill vista can run everything. or i find no use for one or the other...
upgraded my media center pc (previously running winxp MCE). i was having a lot of trouble with XP and stability, and since it basically needs to run 24/7 reliably i decided to try vista since premium and higher all come now with the media center functionality.
installation was a friggin NIGHTMARE. video issues up the butt. tried 3 cards, 20 driver versions, and about 10 re-formats/reinstallations. tried 64bit and 32bit vista. basically all but gave up.
finally tried a SUPER OLD ati video card, and it worked. video performance is obviously laggy (actually not bad in media center though) but other than that the friggin thing has been running 2 weeks in and out of standby flawlessly recording TV while i'm away (not that there's nothing on).
in another year or so i'll future-proof myself with a nice new 100% vista compatible setup when digital TV tuners come farther along and vista SPs come around.
i like the interface though... a lot of it is pure aesthetics, but still neat looking. i'm not sure all the vista hatred is really founded on anything more than bandwagon posers who haven't even tried it. from an IT standpoint, there might be some substantiation, but even my 100,000+ employee company will be rolling out vista in '08.
i'd at least take advantage of a free copy...
installation was a friggin NIGHTMARE. video issues up the butt. tried 3 cards, 20 driver versions, and about 10 re-formats/reinstallations. tried 64bit and 32bit vista. basically all but gave up.
finally tried a SUPER OLD ati video card, and it worked. video performance is obviously laggy (actually not bad in media center though) but other than that the friggin thing has been running 2 weeks in and out of standby flawlessly recording TV while i'm away (not that there's nothing on).
in another year or so i'll future-proof myself with a nice new 100% vista compatible setup when digital TV tuners come farther along and vista SPs come around.
i like the interface though... a lot of it is pure aesthetics, but still neat looking. i'm not sure all the vista hatred is really founded on anything more than bandwagon posers who haven't even tried it. from an IT standpoint, there might be some substantiation, but even my 100,000+ employee company will be rolling out vista in '08.
i'd at least take advantage of a free copy...
btw... if you're ok with analog cable/antenna and/or antenna HDTV, friggin get a TV tuner if you have vista premium+...
it just friggin rocks... TIVO only oodles better and FREE. manage TV, radio, movies, mp3s, and everthing from a remote on your TV.
it is pure bliss... vista/mce running onto a 32" lcd tv via VGA/DVI is absolutely amazing. everyone who sees it loves it and wants one.
it just friggin rocks... TIVO only oodles better and FREE. manage TV, radio, movies, mp3s, and everthing from a remote on your TV.
it is pure bliss... vista/mce running onto a 32" lcd tv via VGA/DVI is absolutely amazing. everyone who sees it loves it and wants one.
Peter123
C-Note
- Location
- Houston, TX
I'm sure that after a couple of Microsoft conferences in the Bahamas and Bali, your CIO will probably favor that rollout. Our CIO approved the money to roll Office 2007 out to all of our machines, even though there wasn't money in the budget to upgrade the 1,000 or so machines that only had 512 MB of RAM. Have you ever seen a machine with 512MB of RAM run 2007? Get out and push.
WDKfan
Workin too much
- Location
- Lake Wylie, South Carolina
Vista doesn work with most of my gaming hardware and seems to have issues with Z-board products. I hate vista, Grif you still selling your PC Bro?
DAG
Yes, my balls tickled from that landing
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
yeah the gaming machin is getting kicked out the door.. need something for gradschool:chairfall:
Why,, you wont it?
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- Location
- Rincon Beach
We still run windows 2000 pro on all our puters,
never crashes ,
runs all our high end Cad/cam software,
networks easy,
why change ???
never crashes ,
runs all our high end Cad/cam software,
networks easy,
why change ???
oxnard111
Creative RE Purchasing
- Location
- so Cali, Ventura/Oxnard area
I haven't tried any different video cards, but watching TV on my Vista media center looks horrible. I also have problems with drivers. Practically every time it restarts it wants re install the video capture card drivers and audio drivers. freakin sucks. so b/c it re installs the capture card drivers it makes me re setup the media center settings every time in order to record video.
I hate VISTA
I hate VISTA
ger87410
How did I get here?
- Location
- Fort Worth
Peter, my machines only have 512MB of ram, and they scream when it comes to office 2007 apps. It's something else that's causing your machine's at work to run office slowly.
aqua
the taco
- Location
- Jefferson City, MO
i bought a new pc from best buy a few months ago that had vista on it. i tried and tried to like it but ended up just installing xp on my new computer. couldnt get vista to work with alot of my stuff and it used way too many resources so out it went. after i installed xp my boot up time went from 3 minutes to 30 seconds.....no joke. at work our new computers also come with vista.......that gets wiped with xp.
douglee25
m3booooy
- Location
- South Jersey
I don't have Vista on my machines, but my brother, dad, mom (2 machines), and gf, all have it on their machines. They had some initial troubles with drivers when it first came out, but even then they were able to get everything working just like XP. I am somewhat dumb founded as to why everyone is having so much trouble??
Doug
Doug
my opinion is that vista is the direction you will eventual want to go.
xp had the same problems, and Me before that, and 98 before that, and 95 before that, and 3.1 before that.
get your voucher, wait a year for more soft/hard-ware support and drivers, maybe a service pack, and load her up.
xp had the same problems, and Me before that, and 98 before that, and 95 before that, and 3.1 before that.
get your voucher, wait a year for more soft/hard-ware support and drivers, maybe a service pack, and load her up.
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romack991
homebrewed
- Location
- Warsaw, IN
I finally quit on Windows. XP has been giving me fits for the last couple of weeks. I've installed and used Vista at the girlfriends and don't have anything good to say about it. Formated and installed Ubuntu tonight. Things look promising so far, biggest concern is just the compatibility factor but we'll see. Definitely much quicker install/up and running than any Microsoft product I've ever dealt with.
Vista is the direction we'll be forced to go to, unless you go Mac or Linux. I'm Linux at home, and if it weren't for a couple of Windows only apps, would be pushing it at work also.
I'm on Vista on my new laptop right now, trying to get used to it and decide how I want to roll it out at work, how I want it configured security-wise, etc. We have no reason to upgrade, it doesn't offer anything that will benefit a corporate environment over WinXP IMO.
Completely agreed.
Also, as a developer, I have to deal with dozens of the issues (under XP) which IE7 introduced. Hundreds of millions of webpages are "broken" today simply because MS pushed the IE7 "upgrade".
- Location
- Hokesbluff,al
we bought our 11 year old son a sony vio laptop with vista already installed. we havent had the first problem with it, everything works fine
douglee25
m3booooy
- Location
- South Jersey
I just got my buddies machine in for a little tweakin. It is a brand new AMD64 Cpu with 2GB of ram. It just blows my mind that this friggin OS sits idle at 586MB of memory while the my highly tweaked XP gamer that I am currently typing on with 2 browsers and 10 windows open sits at 215MB. I think it sits idle at like 120MB but I can't check right now.
I can get XP to run full featured and fully tweaked on 86MB!!!!!!!!
What a massive mistake MS made. I actually hate it and can't believe they did this to their customer base.
I have seen maybe 2 companies switch to it because they had no idea what they were getting in to and now deeply regret it. Its their own fault thought if they would have paid attentions in the tech forums they would have saved a lot of money and headaches.
It will never ever be a good Os no matter how many service packs and needs to be scrapped. It is loaded with such nasty BS. I can't even believe my own two eyes yet I sit here looking at 59 processes (verses my 19 and Vista has even more at times) running on this thing.
I can get XP to run full featured and fully tweaked on 86MB!!!!!!!!
What a massive mistake MS made. I actually hate it and can't believe they did this to their customer base.
I have seen maybe 2 companies switch to it because they had no idea what they were getting in to and now deeply regret it. Its their own fault thought if they would have paid attentions in the tech forums they would have saved a lot of money and headaches.
It will never ever be a good Os no matter how many service packs and needs to be scrapped. It is loaded with such nasty BS. I can't even believe my own two eyes yet I sit here looking at 59 processes (verses my 19 and Vista has even more at times) running on this thing.
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- Location
- Kennewick, WA
has anybody tried to play crysis in linux with wine....is this even possible?