Why Aren't You Upgrading to Vista?

Yahoo! Tech ^ | 2/26/2007 | Christopher Null

[aft_lizard]

Yikes, XP is hardly a marginal leap from 95, its actually a whole lot different in many many ways.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Already have downloaded AVG...Thanks again

[NathanR]

I have been playing with Vista this week, and got one of those Blue Screens of Death. LOL I blew it away and started over. It is visually pretty, has some nice features like the sidebar, and seems faster than XP on the same machine.

However, it does not play well with others, and does not seem to be ready for prime time. I would not pay $100 for an upgrade just to get the features I like.

[NathanR]

Vista seemed to be faster than Xp to me.

[VOA]

Yikes, XP is hardly a marginal leap from 95, its actually a
whole lot different in many many ways.

Time to boot, intractable lock-ups leading to the need to shut down
and other annoyances...
no discernable difference between Win95 and Win XP from what I can see.

Sure XP has more bells and whistles...but in terms of user experience...
Gates and company have just engineered something that keeps the
status quo.

And don't call me a Gates/Microsoft hater.
I still use his products because some of the alternatives
also have their own constellations of downsides.

[aft_lizard]

I dont think you are a hater, dont see you much on these threads anyways. Anyways as far as changing the user interface, as far as I am concerned not much change is needed there. Pretty much every GUI since Win95 has remained pretty steady in that aspect, keeping the basic interaction between computer and user the same is a good thing IMO.

[aft_lizard]

I know but some people just really love the classic look. My sister uses the classic on XP and I imagine if she goes Vista she will immediately turn back to windows classic.

[kerryusama04]

I'm sorry... socialism isn't cool

I don't get it.

[theFIRMbss]

>you win today's "most ridiculous post award"

[lesser_satan]

I'm considering switching. How hard is it to make the transition? Will I be able to learn the Mac OS without any formal training?

[goldstategop]

Its not really that hard. Some of the buttons are transposed and you have to click differently but once you get the hang of a Mac, you'll wonder how you were without one in the first place.

"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

[lesser_satan]

Thanks. I'll have to fool around with one in the store and see if I can figure it out.

[kerryusama04]

I'm considering switching. How hard is it to make the transition? Will I be able to learn the Mac OS without any formal training?

Here are a couple links that will help, but I don't recall using them, yet. I've only had the thing about 2 weeks now and haven't had any trouble adapting. If you use a USB windows mouse, right clicking even works just like windows. It was tough to migrate pop email over, but other than that, the difficulty only comes when I have to use my work laptop, which is a Dell D610. My Mac boots, from pushing the on button to ready, in less than 30 seconds. My Dell takes about 4 minutes.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=153448

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

[lesser_satan]

Thanks!

[goldstategop]

I wonder if you've maxed out the RAM in your Dell laptop. Boosting the RAM speeds everything up.

"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

[kerryusama04]

You're welcome. Another thing, if you like to do the ctl-c, ctl-v to cut and paste on Windows, if you use the apple key on Mac instead of the ctl key, the commands are the same.

[kerryusama04]

The Dell booted much faster before MSIE 7. In fact, everything was faster before MSIE 7. It has a Gig of DDR and a 2G processor.

[CFC__VRWC]

Because I use a Mac at home, and the Vista decision at work is out of my hands. But from what I hear about Vista, I'm in no hurry to be upgraded at work. Vista offers very little that XP doesn't already provide, and it comes with a huge performance hit.

[LibKill]

Licensing is sucky as well.

[Richard Kimball]

I've had a Mac since OSX version 1. There are a couple of reasons people don't complain about the Mac OS price. First, it doesn't hurt to skip a generation or two. One of my daughters is on 10.3, and the other is on 10.2. I was on 10.2, but upgraded to 10.4. Mac still supports all the systems with security updates, etc.

The other thing is that when you spend the $130 for the Mac upgrade, it's a complete system upgrade. You don't have to already have Mac 10.3 to install Mac 10.4. You can install the new operating system over the old one and keep all your settings, programs and files, or you can format the drive and do a completely clean install. It never checks to see if you have a previous version. Finally, to get a fully functional copy of Windows Vista, you have to shell out $400 (that's retail, and there will probably be some pricing discounts), but that's still a lot of dollars. For $200, you can buy a family license for OSX, and completely upgrade five Macs, with no requirements for previous versions, etc, for $200. That's half the retail price of one fully functional copy of Vista, and there aren't the myriad "Windows rules" in the Eula. Basically, you agree to not reverse engineer the OS or run it on more machines than the license allows. Other than that, if the OS is capable of it, you can do it. There's no "don't run the system in a virtual machine unless you pay for the full version and even if you pay for the full version, don't run DRM content on the virtual machine" caveats.