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| Re: What do you hate about Windows Vista/What can be improved/added on Windows Vista to make it bett [message #332812 is a reply to message #332613] |
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| R315r4z0r wrote on Sat, 31 May 2008 20:02 |
Everything about the system just seems completely unnecessary. I can do everything I need to with XP and it runs better. So why should I have to upgrade a PC to us an OS that lets me do less stuff than XP?
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You shouldn't. I'm not a Vista supporter, but i'm not a Vista shunner either, because I havn't used Vista for more than 5 minutes (i was in a store for a few minutes playing about with it whilst waiting for my brother to buy something). I don't use Vista because I don't need to, I have no DX10 games.
| Caveman wrote on Sat, 31 May 2008 14:43 |
The only thing you have with Vista thats even half decent is DX10 and that at the moment is being ported for XP..
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Where did you find this out? If Microsoft are indeed porting it to XP, then there goes one of the big selling points for Vista for many people.
| Caveman wrote on Sat, 31 May 2008 20:39 |
You run Vista on a 2.4Ghz w/1GB ram and it runs smoothly and I run XP on a P2 400 w/256MB DDR133 yet we're getting the same things. I'd prefer not to spend money on upgrading that computer to do something its already doing perfectly fine.
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That's because XP is 7 years old. A very little percentage of computers now in use are P2's, so why should Vista be designed to run well on them when it should be designed in the knowledge that most systems are atleast P4 standard.
However, I agree that if Vista does make un-needed features compulsary then that's crazy. I will need to try Vista for some time and establish my own opinions before judging it. All that I have posted here comes from me not having used the OS, so I concider myself unbiased.
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| Re: What do you hate about Windows Vista/What can be improved/added on Windows Vista to make it bett [message #332888 is a reply to message #332613] |
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Those RAM hogging effects are optional (The Aero interface) and setup disables them if it thinks you won't manage with your PC!
Also, SP1 made things go funny here too, only third party software was a copy of Delphi 7, AVG 7.5 and Ren really - I think the fact my OS debugger got set to the Delphi 7 one may have caused the issue. Anyway, installing the OS, then SP1 then everything works just fine.
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| R315r4z0r wrote on Mon, 11 October 2010 15:35 |
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the hell is that?
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| Re: What do you hate about Windows Vista/What can be improved/added on Windows Vista to make it bett [message #332913 is a reply to message #332876] |
Sun, 01 June 2008 09:15 |
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| Blazer wrote on Sun, 01 June 2008 01:08 |
| {SB}Lone0001 wrote on Fri, 30 May 2008 19:07 |
The fact you require 1GB to even use it and 2GB to use it without it slowing down your computer
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Thats funny because I had Vista installed on a machine here that only has 512MB of RAM, and it ran perfectly fine, including playing C&C3 and Call of Duty 4 with ease.
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I can confirm that. I used Vista with 768mb of memory for awhile and it also ran perfectly fine. Sure I was bottlenecked by a 478 socket so games didn't run hardly, but the Vista experience itself was just fine.
I have found that Vista is hardly different from XP, and as a matter of fact I have found that I like the features in Vista quite a bit more.
Vista is also much better than XP when it comes to system diagnostics, self repair, and troubleshooting thanks to the awesome diag. team at MSFT! (Thanks guys!). Vista should be more stable than XP actually.
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| Re: What do you hate about Windows Vista/What can be improved/added on Windows Vista to make it bett [message #332932 is a reply to message #332925] |
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| {SB}Lone0001 wrote on Sun, 01 June 2008 11:42 |
Of course it would run fine on a 2.8Ghz processor why wouldn't it? 2.8Ghz is pretty high.
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Well what I suggest is that you read about the architecture of a processor. The external frequency is hardly what matters. Your Centrino is most likely runs on 800MHz front bus(s) which is much faster than a Pentium 4. Plus, you'll gain some nifty knowledge in the process and benefit in the end.
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| Re: What do you hate about Windows Vista/What can be improved/added on Windows Vista to make it bett [message #333045 is a reply to message #332613] |
Mon, 02 June 2008 16:45 |
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i'm still an XP boy but what I really want to know is if I should wait for Windows 7 or get Vista.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
I read that Windows 7 may be out in Jan. of 2010 so thats only a year and a half away.
Me, being almost 40, remember having to play the latest games on dos then it seemed like from '95 to '97 running games like CIV2 just sucked on Windows until Windows '98 came out. Is Vista going to go down in history as just a waste or will Windows 7 be the new thing to cry about until something better comes along?
My guess is Microsoft will try to fix the unpopular side of Vista features with Windows 7, while trying to sneak in as much copyright spying as they can into the new OS.
u du da thinkin' and i'll do da drinkin'
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