Laptops sound issues........Vista???????

[Bill Yanaire]

Oh my GOD, the village IDIOT wants to be left alone. Stop posting such crap
and maybe WE will.

 

[Andy [Ex-MSFT]]

WTF??? I do not want to win people in here... If I wanted to be popular I
would say how great vista is all the time!
I want to expose vista for the crap it is! Vistanoids dont like that....

Well, still... you could cut down the "crap" and "poo" comments, but
interesting points.

Many of the programs that are made to compose music either dont work at
all, or have a horrible performance...

Yeah, I've noticed, I'm missing my Audigy2, seperation on that card just
always seemed more noticeable with those cards, I'm considering an X-fi for
my XP box.

MS did this in hope to make MUSIC copying harder from outside sources or
sound playing from the actual computer... of course it can be changed..
http://blogs.technet.com/aralves/archive/2006/09/11/455366.aspx
but you have no idea how much frustration this has caused people....

Well I do have a bit of an idea... I try to stay informed.

The way vista handles sound is hiddeous, the mixer is disfunctional.. and
the startup sound is hardwired into a frikin DLL!!!

Yeah, I was thinking that's kindda silly, BUT isn't XP the same way? I mean
you can't really change the XP window look, and the bootup screen, etc. I
remember changing all that stuff in Win98 with a little effort, but pretty
much gave up on "skinning" with XP and just suffered along with it.

MS says this is a BRAND thing... they want to promote a brand by using a
friken unchangable sound?

Well, it is kind of unique. Always stutters on my system at work (plays
under heavy loading), I mean you can't mistake it for something else.

Also most drivers included WITH vista have a horrible performance! People
try to play dvds or videos and the sound lags or the video skips!

Quicktime, I love playing movie trailers on the apple site, but up until
recently I had all sorts of problems. Quicktime still crashes my system at
work.

I have not found one thing good about vista... it is total crap and MS
should take it back, fix it, and re-release it to the world when its
ready.

That's not a good thing. Windows XP was worse when it came out, but then
again, so was Windows ME. Soon as Linux implements DirectX or convinces
everyone to start using OpenGL/AL again, I'm there. (Gaming thing)

/rock
-A.

 

[Andy [Ex-MSFT]]

Don't argue with Carl. His is mentally challenged. Poor fellow.
Released from the home a week or so ago and has nowhere to go

Not argueing, I'm debating. It's like argueing, but more civil. Carl isn't
quite civil with me yet, but I like to give one the benefit of a doubt.
Occasionally mud slinging is OK, I kind of threw one across his bow with the
"Mr. Green House" comment earlier.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Jim;
What model of laptop?
I have an older Toshiba Tecra S1 and the sound is fine.
There is a physical knob on the left side that sometimes gets bumped
so that causes low volume sometimes.
My 2 speakers are small, about 1/2" diameter, and they sound good for
their size.

Have you checked with others who have that same laptop model with
Windows Vista?

If the laptop came with Windows Vista Home Premium, have you asked
Toshiba?
As the OEM, it is up to them to make the system they sold you function
properly.
Ask Toshiba, the laptop should still be in warranty.

 

[Lang Murphy]

OK I have said 1000 times that vista is crap... everything about vista is
total crap

for once I tried to not focus on vista crap and I get a lecture about
morality!!!

<snip>

And how, exactly, did you "...get a lecture on morality?" We must be reading
different threads... Oh... even though the op agreed with the gist of what
you were saying, they disagreed with the way in which you said it. Hmm...
not a huge surprise that you would recognize it as such.

Lang

 

[Jim]

What a waste of bandwidth asking a question here..........it provokes
petty arguments with very few REAL possible solutions to my question.
I think I'll look elsewhere....thanks anyway !!