Meanwhile, her 4-year old iBook runs Leopard 10.5.2 just fine; the only thing it won't do on hers is the translucent menu bar (which she can't stand anyway).
My laptop came with VISTA.
It wouldn’t run a lot of my programs and I finally formatted it off the drives and UP graded back to XP.
I found it to be very slow booting and loading and a resource hog.
VISTA also froze my laptop up on several occasions.
Upgrading Windows makes little sense. It actually takes a year or two for hardware makers to catch up with new versions of Windows. When XP came along the cheapo computers were delivered with 256 megs of memory. This was a big mistake.
Since Vista was first delivered, CPU power per dollar has increased by 50 percent, more than offsetting the performance drag of XP. It is also possible to get a decent video card for $70. Not a game quality screamer, but one capable of displaying Vista’s features.
I’ve been told Vista has all sorts of problems. I plan to stick with XP until someone whose opinion I respect tells me Vista is now OK.
I’ll be buying a new computer later this year, and I’ve already been promised by Dell that I can buy it with the new XP AND NOT with VISTA!!
the remote desktop function was dramatically better. a few other features were infinitely nicer but the entire ‘cancel or continue’ thing is something I’d like to personally beat some MS programmer over. Having to ‘continue or cancel’ is like having to press 1 for English.
That being said, I’ve got both MAC and Dell laptops and I still use the Dell more for business. Maybe I’m just not hip enough to really like MAC or I haven’t made enough effort to have it ‘grow’ on me.
Yep, it has NOTHING to do with cost.
None the less, all my other PC's still have XP on them. I see no advantages on my Vista machine.
Maureen Dowd?
After working with Vista for six months, I trashed it and returned to XP. It is slow, especially for gaming, as compared to XP and the security in it is way overplayed. It is cumbersome and unwieldy to work with. I personally do not like it -— and it is gone. Am now back with XP Pro and doing just fine.
Hey, I’ve got a piece of fresh frozen dog crap my dog dropped in the snow. I will sell it to you for $500.
What, you won’t buy it?
OK, I’ll drop the price to $350. How does that sound?
No?
OK, I’ll throw in some yellow snow for free! From the same dog, too!
Did anybody else read “Fire in the Valley”? How about see the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley”.
Gates is a High School drop out who bought MS DOS from a brilliant programmer in his garage who was too stupid to know what he had for a couple of grand.
The rest is history.
Is this a great country or what?
I’ve got 2 complaints with Vista, that are really inexcusable.
1. No OpenGL support. OpenGL (Open Graphics Language) is a largely unregulated, but very powerful and common approach taken by gamers and by workstations. AutoCAD, OrCAD, Doom, Quake, AutoCAD Inventor, AutoCAD 3D and Photoshop, to mention a few, all use OpenGL.
To intentionally drop support for these programs that are ESSENTIAL to several classes of industry is to sabotage your customer. Imagine the startup where a man invests his retirement to buy new machines in the hopes of realizing his dream - only to discover that his dream is doomed because Microsoft abandoned OpenGL without warning, notice or a disclaimer of any type.
2. Same game, same hardare but different Operations Systems have shown that now only does WinXP perform faster, it also is less prone to system errors. So, buy a new game for your $2,500 PC and you’ll find that this machine with VISTA plays your new game slower than your 3 year old PC. This is not an upgrade - this is theft by deception.
And run Vista 64 Ultimate
The OS runs just fine. It starts fast and runs without a hitch. I do have a few programs that are not compatible. To solve this problem I run XP on a virtual machine.
I think most people who cry about this OS just don't have the computer to handle it, or do not have the technical know how to “make things work” when they have to.
It's a new OS, in a year or so most of the compatibility issues will be a thing of the past.
Hopefully, I will be able to skip Vista entirely (just as I was able to skip Windows ME). I am convinced that MS will throw a few service packs at Vista and then replace it entirely with something that works.
A few months ago I built a new machine to manage all my video, tv, music, HDTV, etc. Core 2 Quad, 4 gig, NVidea EVGA, etc. etc. Vista Home Premium was on sale for $80. Vista indeed was horrendous the first few months after I had it. It ran fine after I first installed it, but just bogged down every time I tried to install stuff, but it “learns” and speeds up after a while. My games scream on the new machine. Streaming HDTV from the internet is flawless. The only real problem I had was with old hardware. My 1-year-old router didn’t work on the new machine and I had to buy a new one. I will withhold any further opinion on Vista until after Service Pack 1 is installed which is due any day now.
I recently bought 2 different PC's with vista premium.
My only complaint is slow reboots
I could really use some help, Please!! I know absolutely NOTHING about this program
My son was given a new computer fro graduation last year with Vista.
He is n “A” school right now and his Word program trial has expired so he has no word processing. Is this normal? Does he have to buy an upgrade or is there a way he can work with this Vista crap?
The issues I have seen is when Best Buy, etc. were selling marginal laptops and their McDonald's Employees were stuffing Vista into them. Of course they all came back. I actually saw one that was sold to a neighbor that had 512 Meg of Ram installed; It was so slow it was not usable.
I noticed on my relative's new monster machine that 750 megs (3.25 Gigs free) of Ram were in use, with only a browser open...So no wonder my nieghbor's machine was paralyzed. Well, it DID have a Vista sticker on it.
As I upgrade my machines here, I put stickers on them, too. They have a Penguin on them.