Posted on 10/08/2006 7:05:04 AM PDT by dennisw
Windows 95 was 32mb. Win98 was about 200mb. This new OS is 2.5gig? Unbelievable. I'm downloading now and will try it out but my comp is a bit underpowered for it
Thanks for the link.
You're a braver man than I am. I love betas, but I draw the line at loading betas of the MS operating system.
I'll not be Bill Gates' guinea pig, thank you.
I have an unused hard drive so what the heck. I think my video card doesn't have enough oomph to display all the new eye candy. I run Win XP in the classic look so there better be more to Vista than visuals
The Akamai downloader never worked for me. I downloaded it straight and took me chances
Maybe the reason it's so slow is:
Are you logged in?
Interesting that you have to burn it to a DVD.
Is that how it's going to be sold ?
Be sold on DVD but CDs will surely be available. M$ is not going to miss out on sales. Many people have only CD players on their laptops. I have a few computers but only one has a DVD player (burns too)
How many laptops that can't read DVD's won't be woefully unpowered in every other way imaginable? I think my laptop is about 3.5 years old, and it has a combo (CD-RW and DVD-R) drive. It's a nice machine, and I'll keep it as long as I can (it has REAL serial and parallel ports, and can boot DOS off floppy; some bit-bang apps work faster under DOS than under Windows) but I don't think it'd be much good for the new OS.
What you say is 100% true but remember that Win95 came out on CD but on floppies too. About 16 of them. Those floppies were invaluable for laptop owners. Their laptops were likely under powered for Win95 way back when
Good luck. Vista is a monster on resources. I barely got it to run on a 3.4GHz PC with a gig of RAM. There was allot of click and wait when trying it out. It has a very slick installation and the environment reminds me a little of KDE from the Linux world. It will definitely be a learning curve for some of the less savvy windows users, because there's allot of changes.
If you like the CLI scripting available in Linux, you might what to take a look at PowerShell. RC2 came out about a week ago. Runs on W2K3 Server and XP SP2 with .Net 2.0.
I was reading about that just yesterday as a matter of fact. I wont be scripting much for awhile though. I hurt my arm this weekend and my left hand has been about 90% paralyzed since =(
Typing right handed only has been a bitch!!
It almost has to be sold on a DVD.
Been there. I always found putting my socks on one-handed a really irritating way to have to have to start the day. Hope it heals up soon!
I've been trying to find a decent DOS prompt enhancer for Windows that can usefully perform such things as "tee" with existing command-line applications. Yeah, I know there's a version of "tee" for MS-DOS, but since it requires the previous program to run completion before it shows any output, it's pretty useless.
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