Pro Vista

[Spirit]

Check these :

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/home.php

 

[xfile]

Hi,

One thing that may help you to work better/faster with Vista and CS3 (if you
overcome the usability issues) is that CS3 seems can take further advantages
of GPU capabilities provided by Vista.

Please noted that this is based on my poor memory of reading ealier CS3
documentations, so you may wish either to check What's New section of the
help file or go to Adobe site for more information.

If that's true, make sure you take full advantages of both.

If Vista works for you, that's good, and it's just a simple matter of choice


Take care and good luck!

 

[Rich]

Six months is early on Frank?

Yeah, six months is early on. Think where you'll be in six months

You don't seem to have much VISION do you? I can tell you've never
been up on a VISTA before taking in the bigger picture.


Rich

 

[Lang Murphy]

I've been reading alot of disses of Vista these days (including this
group) and I was among them a couple of months ago. I admit that it took
awhile for me to actually move to Vista. I've had my share of problems,
but now that I have customized it the way i want and researched and fixed
my problems (and learned alot while doing so), I absolutely LOVE it.

Don't blame Vista if old apps don't run -- i would think it's up to the
software manu's to keep up!! Adobe released it's CS3 apps in order to keep
step and it was well worth the upgrade as the apps are more stable and
more feature-rich than ever (and better integrated). The new Office 2007
took a bit of getting used to, but all in all -- a vast improvement and a
great upgrade.

I have 6 gigs of ram in my Vista (xeon) computer and am running 3-20" flat
screens (extended desktop), and it's fast, efficient, looks great, runs
snappy and hasn't crashed once!! My XP computer had 4 gigs of ram running
the same monitors and similar apps (CS2 stuff) and crashed constantly.

I personally feel that Vista is all-around a great operating system and a
BIG improvement over XP.

But, that's just me.

Susan,

Nice post. Glad you persevered through the learning stages to figure out how
to make Vista work for you. I've not made many tweaks to Vista and I like it
more and more every day I use it.

Lang

 

[Greg]

I will agree with you that Vista is much better than XP was when it came
out. It is a hundred times more stable and hardly every crashes. When it
does there's a much better chance of recovering data. It's faster and more
efficient.

However, there are some really serious problems with file handling that MS
must address, including some to look out for if you are using jpgs a lot.
Vista can strip the jpg markers (and other markers put there by camera
software, etc) and render them unreadable. This happens when copying from/to
USB devices connected via a network between an XP machine and Vista machine
because apparently it uses different "permissions" on the two operating
systems. I don't know whether this is a problem with Vista Business but it
certainly happens with Home Premium. This may not be an issue for you with
your setup, but it could be if a client transfers graphics files to you from
an XP machine over a network.

As well as this, even copying just straight from a camera to your Vista
machine using Windows Gallery to import the files, it can overwrite the
markers your camera software uses to tell that the picture is part of a
panorama thus rendering it unable to be stitched. I now no longer use
Gallery to import anything. It's dangerous and destroys data.

Greg

Will admit that i have no idea what the basic experience a general "home
user" encounters (not using the 'home' version -- am running Vista
Business).

Yes, i had some issues...irritating ones at that. Silly stuff like trying
to copy/paste a dumb font file out the fonts folder to another folder --
and i was denied access (that didn't last long though!!). That's just to
name one stupid one (but it made me mad at the time). Most were just dumb
things and personal preferences (how folders display, etc). My XP box is
nicely customized as well.

But, that said, the generation using computers now should know how to have
control...and limit it as well. Not a bad thing.

 

[Adam Albright]

Yeah, six months is early on. Think where you'll be in six months

You don't seem to have much VISION do you? I can tell you've never
been up on a VISTA before taking in the bigger picture.


Rich

Another Bozo that doesn't have a clue. This newsgroup is infested with
wannabe "experts" that are only expert at shooting off their mouth.

 

[Susan]

i have found that to be the case also.
we had to abide by the HCL when XP came out as well
and many people complained then too

i see nothing wrong with progress
if you aren't ready to upgrade -- then don't
but there's no need to complain about it.

 

[Susan]

running 2 nvidia cards
working fabulous...

Check these :

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/home.php

 

[Adam Albright]

i have found that to be the case also.
we had to abide by the HCL when XP came out as well
and many people complained then too

i see nothing wrong with progress
if you aren't ready to upgrade -- then don't
but there's no need to complain about it.

Actually the ones most not ready was Microsoft and it's partners.
Shipping a "finished" product with 500 known bugs is disgraceful.
Then we have the issue of hardware having undergone Vista
certification which is suppose to mean Microsoft tested the hardware
and certifies it works correctly, only to have said hardware
malfunction.

Plenty of blame to go around, but the lion's share is correctly dumped
in Microsoft's lap. Five years and Vista obviously wasn't ready,
wasn't fully tested, yet they shipped it anyway. I wonder... how many
millions of people all over the world have suffered and are still
suffering because of the bone headed decision to put profits ahead of
quality control?

Who do I blame? This idiot:

 

[Rich]

Another Bozo that doesn't have a clue. This newsgroup is infested with

wannabe "experts" that are only expert at shooting off their mouth.

Know thyself ...

Looks like you do.

Good show


Rich

 

[Ian]

People said that about every version of Windows ever produced but then
bought in their millions so why did you get it, just to complain. Format and
go back to XP is you best course. Complaining is just hot air.

 

[Adam Albright]

People said that about every version of Windows ever produced but then
bought in their millions so why did you get it, just to complain. Format and
go back to XP is you best course. Complaining is just hot air.

So why are YOU complaining about my complaining?