Linux, the other OS.
Does Vista have the new microsoft portable document program?
I just updated my nVidia drivers last week for my XP Pro SP2 system and wound up rolling back based on everything that suddenly wouldn't work. Can only imaging how it'd work with Vista.
Those Mac commercials are lookin' real good.
Lesseehere...you've got a popular video card from a major manufacturer, and you have to "turn down the eye candy" and stop playing graphics-intensive games and turn the computer off frequently and suffer long load times...that sure as heck beats a Mac how exactly?
A maxed-out Mac Mini with big flat-panel is about $2500. And it works. Methinks it's time.
As for Vista's new security model, you may want to go read some more about that.
Did the pod people show up yet?
It is sad that you have to buy the most powerful computer loaded with tons of memory and high power graphics card just to run the operating system. I can understand having to upgrade computers to run the latest high-powered applications, but not just to run the operating system. Nothing but bloatware.
Here's another little FYI:
No need to upgrade to Vista right now.
Yessss ... kissss the nice worm thing that crawled in your ear and extended its tendrils onto your spinal cord, your gut, and your heart.
What elsssse can you do.
You're trippin, dude.
Another Vista thread.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
If you don't get it by reading the Executive Summary, you should scroll down to the Indirect Disabling of Functionality part, then read the Elimination of Unified Drivers part and the Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation part. Yes, nVidia probably does have problems getting completely functional drivers for every version/release/upgrade/service pack of Vista, but that is not really nVidia's fault, as you can read in the article. There probably isn't going to be any hardware company that is going to get it right, because the OS software won't let them get it right. Read the part about Increased Hardware Costs and security/DRM having to be approved by "Hollywood and other content owners", rather than technicians and security experts.
Gutmann states that "This document looks purely at the cost of the technical portions of Vista's content protection" not the "political issues". He also states "Vista's content protection must be able to violate the laws of physics, something that's unlikely to happen..."
Go ahead and scream and kick and cry about everything except the OS... all you do is exhibit your abject ignorance to all and sundry. You can try to blame the hardware/driver suppliers all you want, but in the end it is technically impossible for them to provide reliable, quality products for this OS. Some may have a system that actually works, because their particular build/release of Vista just happened to get installed on marginally compatible hardware with marginally functional drivers/firmware, but that won't last long. As soon as the first "update" is loaded without the user's knowledge, things start to break.
You can drink all the MS koolaid you want, but technically this OS version is not going to work, and it may put some hardware manufacturers out of business through no fault of their own because they tried to "comply" with the OS requirements.
Have fun with your anti-nVidia rants. Have fun with all the problems you are going to have with Vista. And believe me, it will be Vista that is the problem, not the hardware/drivers/applications. I can't wait to hear your rant about how some hardware/application "blew up" your computer, or shut down/deleted your application, or outputs a fuzzy image or krappy sound... or no sound or video at all. And when Vista shuts down your hardware, applications and deletes your files. I'm sure it will always be everything else's fault but Vista's. Good luck, you're going to need it.
Yup, class action lawsuits against the hardware manufacturer because they cannot possibly comply with the OS/MS requirements. I agree, nVidia labeled some video cards as Vista ready/compliant, when they should never have even released a piece of hardware for the OS.
It would also help your credibility (such as it is) if you'd learn to spell and use reasonably understandable grammar and punctuation, so people could try to understand what you are writing. As it is, you come off as an illiterate who probably has trouble finding the on/off switch on the computer, so no wonder you have problems having drank the MS koolaid. Examples: learn the difference between to/too, their/there, just for a start.
I'm using Onboard Nvidia GeForce 6150 Video without issue...
Although I do like ATI better(for video quality reasons), I will be switching to them when I get a dedicated video card, Along with an ATI TV tuner card... To use with Vista's Media Center ;)
XP's load time is quick?
There is a myriad of driver support problems with Vista. Both ATI and Nvidia had open letters explaining that they were given little or no support by MS in the development phase. Many other hardware companies said the same thing, and from I've seen in the field I tend to believe it.
The wise move for now is to wait. Driver support should be up to snuff in about six months.
Maybe this has already been said, but the more I hear of vista, the more I think: hasta la vista