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I wasn't sure if this went in the hobby forum or here, but anyway: what's everyone think of windows vista? Anyone planning on going for the upgrade? It looks sweet on those big plasmas on tv, but I need some upgrades before I can give it a try. Discuss.
heard it sucks for gaming, but everything looks amazing i guess...
i still need to research it a bit
I'm going to wait for them to release Vista "Service Pack 2" before installing it. Had a beta copy running, looked like a pimped up XP Pro. Personally, I'm beginning to get ino linux. the newer distributions are very very good, compatiblity with lots and lots of hardware. And it's FREE!:)
Yea, I've heard of a lot of people moving to linux lately. I've tried it out a few times and it was ok. Still too much work for me to just sit down and play.Quote:
Originally Posted by shilling
Have you heard of Mac OSX. It is nearly an exact copy of what is on my apple. Sorry I hate microsoft, but had to sell out for the 360.
Yea, if I could afford to have a mac I would. I just can't stand paying for software when there's so many freeware ones out there that work even better. If I ever hit the lotto or something, you bet your sweet ass I'd have a mac with me at all times. I just can't afford the software I need for work on a mac :oQuote:
Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
I just bought a new desktop with a free vista upgrade, so I'm gonna czech it out soon. I'll let you know if it's worth anything. :thumbsup:
They have gone down on price, my macbook didn't cost anymore than a mid range windows lap top. I'm not a huge mac fan, I have come to the conclusion all computers suck...Quote:
Originally Posted by benagain
Screw Vista. They're going to have special built-in things in the OS itself which helps protect against software piracy and music piracy (not that it can't be thwarted... but it's bullshit nonetheless). Fuck that. I'll stick with FreeBSD, NetBSD, Gentoo Linux, and Windows XP. Though, Vista does LOOK nice, I don't like the restricting ideas.
I will let the masses decide,,,I'm not loosing XP anytime soon...
It doesn't suck for gaming, it requires more gpu processing speed and mem. But it configures itself to your system and the features that require this extra speed can be turned off. I will get it(im a bit of a computer geek) but ima pirate it, fuck paying.
It also isn;t anywhere near an exact copy of what is on OSX. M$ is offering the ability to use vista on macs by the way(a genius move).
Give it a year. Or two. Or just wait until you get a PC with it pre-installed.
This is Micro$oft, we are, after all talking about,
the company that coined the phrase "security patch" ???
du0d, 3y3'm m0r3 0f a c0mput3r g33k th4n yu0.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2600HERTZ
g00d 3y3-d34 4b0ut pir8'ing it, s1nc3 1t'z n0t g0ing tw0 b3 w0rth th3 m0n3y 4nyw4y.
vista came out last nite at 12 and its $400
I Get It For Free
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Were you a beta tester???Quote:
Originally Posted by ju99al0b0mb3r
Nah
I Bought A Laptop And I Get A Free Upgrade Lol
OK cool if it were free for me I would try it but ,,, Ima not pay 4 beans for it...Quote:
Originally Posted by ju99al0b0mb3r
I got a new gateway notebook from bestby for christmas and it comes with a free upgrade to vista. Not the core upgrade thought the full vista upgrade but, i want to upgrade my ram first before i upgrade to it since my computer only came with 1gig
IRALOL?Quote:
Originally Posted by mfqr
I just tried to order my free vista upgrade and I had trouble with the COP; it wouldn't let me finish, lol. I gotta try again in about three hours. They send it throught the mail, and you have to pay shipping $9.95, but that beats the hell outta 4 bills...
Yea. I'm not gonna be paying that for it anytime soon. After I get my rig upgraded the way I want I may pitch the idea of the upgrade to the work peeps. Maybe they will re-imburse. Prolly not.
I wouldn't count on it, but it's worth a try, eh?
It sure is. I know they're not gonna buy a Wii for me, so I gotta try and squeeze some more blood out of the stone one way or the other :cool:
I gotta do it before a certain time, or the offer is void, then I'll have to shell out 4 bills just to get it.
What kind of Desktop did you get, man? I got a Gateway GT5224. So far so good. It sure beats my old Dell deminsion, lol!
Why should i join the hoard of Sheep jumping off a cliff :confused:
M$ Windoze Vista is a DRM riddled pile of stinking bloatware :toilet_claw:
I have only gone as far as win XP Pro and win2k. :D
I my self are going for a nice shiny mac pro :cool:
I just change/upgrade my computer about every 5-6 years
So i don't mind the expense but vista was the final straw with its
massive overhead on the hardware/DRM :bonghit:
I was a long time windows user but M$ now is realy gone for a crap with this stinker. :eek:
I have started playing with a Mac and it seems great for what i need. :cool:
Which is recording and mixing music :stoned:
So i will be one of the switch crowd :D
I have it installed on one of my machines at home (I have several :o ), and I actually like it so far. I dont like the fact that you cant do a "clean" install with an upgrade license.
I read somewhere on digg.com, that you can add flash dirve memory sticks and use it as ram, with the new Vista.
I am wondering what kind of hoops we have to jump through to reinstall... I tinker a lot with my computers and secure wipe the HD's a lot... it is miserable having to call india to activate my freakin copy of XP...Quote:
Originally Posted by EmoRebellion
From what I heard, you only get 2 installs with the key that comes with the cd.After that you're shit out of luck if you need to reinstall vista.Gates expects you to shell out a few bills more for a new license key.And the last beta version of Vista looked slick, but was nothing but a resource WHORE in my opinion.I have 2gigs of ram and a athlon64X2 dual core CPU and vista sucked up 25% of my ram and 15% of my CPU just running the desktop and my normal startup programs like antivirus and firewall.
XP Pro uses less than 8% of my CPU for the same situation and about 8% of my ram.
if true, i think we have a new record for lameness.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebeancounter41
fuck all these giant companies who just want to make something flashy so people will buy it and they will make tons of cash for making a shitty product that everyone wants simply because of the hype.
I'll move to Vista when the whole digital rights feature is removed, if it doesn't budge then I'll keep an XP computer and Vista computer. I'll most likely use the Vista one for gaming, keep in mind by this time most games will be based on Vista. I'll keep my XP computer for all my other bits and bobs.
Windows is far more flexible than Mac. The way I see it Mac's are purely specialist computers used for Art and Music, anyone who buys one for anything else is a fool in my opinion. I'm a graphic designer myself (on the road to being one anyway) and I use Windows and find it perfectly fine to use. Although I have a friend who studies music at University and swears by Macs for that sort of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by JaggedEdge
In my opion I would tell everyone to wait atleased another year to upgrade to vista. Im a PC Tech and know my work very well, I myself will wait awhile for this upgrade if at all. If you remember back when XP first came out it had many bugs till the updates starting comming out a year later. I went to the Microsoft convetion and got the hole overview on Vista and to tell ya the truth nothing amazing about it. Just another bugy operating system, give it some time.
I'm dualbooting Vista and XP currently.
I do actually like the Aero theme a fair bit. I could give or take the "special effects", but the smoky glass is a nice neutral skin.
My favorite part is definitely the file manager. It's sooo improved! With breadbox navigation, customizable shortcuts (finally), and a whole shitload of flexibility in viewing files. I like it. Puts XP's to major shame.
But that's about it. I like Chess Titans. Shadow Copies is a cool idea that I really doubt I'll ever find myself using. The fast searching is very nice, but I rarely need it. Hmm.
Oh, yeah, the Flip-3D thing? It's dumb. And anyone saying it's a ripoff of Mac OSX for that (or anything else in general) is ridiculous. This is by and large Windows; refined, but hardly changed. It doesn't even aesthetically look like OSX.
On a related note, I am REALLY fond of the new Office 07 and the new ribbon design. (It would be nice if the ribbons were more customizable but since you can actually make your own tabs with a bit of work already, I'm sure it's only a matter of time.)
alot of uneeded security... i swear, at every turn it asks you for permission, even askes permission to ask permission lol... it kinda gets annoying, but you get used to it really quick.
erm, it has small compatibility issues with a wide arrange of programs... usually solved just by going to properties and checking off "run compatible with windows xp sp2." with one game so far (out fo quite a few) i have to right click and click run as administrator" to get the game to work right, but other then that, games really have no problems.
it has alot of bugs... they can be pretty annoying... i've told them in another thread (windows vista bugs), nothing really major tho, a simple restart takes care of 'em. there's been a few updates but not much... so i'd still hold off if you could o.0
New graphics don't make new OS. Gates is losin.. Its all about the google open source OS. WOOT Go GOogle FUck windowsQuote:
Originally Posted by Toupee
Spoken from a pc user.. I'm a heavy PC gamer. Built from ground up always. Once I got on my dual g5 with 97 inches of screen all around me... There was NO comparison.. Tiger whips xp's/vistas ass AND its yesterdays OS. Leopard is expected to be popular out of the gate. So being a PC guy, I bow to the macs power, Yes specializing in video, audio, and graphic work, but why would you use a pc if you have a power horse. Good luck rendering on a pc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nation_1ne
fuck it.
its over priced, requires most everyone to upgrade their hardware cause most people dont have that much of RAM or that fast of a CPU....and really the only difference ive noticed is looks and some random things that are 'neat'....nothing too...functional. Linux still wins out. But the reason i WONT be using it is because their extra 'security' layer. It looks suspicious and with their level of 'security', i wouldnt touch it or trust it. ever.
Vista looks good and there it ends its a total fucking nightmare on our new laptop, as soon as we can find out how we are getting it off our machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by benagain