Vista Appraisal

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philo said:
Yes...
and if one has some good H/W it would be fine.

I just happen to have old junk H/W...so I'm staying with Win2k, XP and
Linux.

I'm sure I'll be using Vista as soon as the quad-core cpu's with 4 gigs of
RAM
start ending up in the junk!
Probably a few more months though <G>
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Mine isn't exactly state of the art anymore, and wasn't when I bought it.
Back then it was AMD 64 3500, 1 GB and integrated nVidia 6100 video. I
bought an extra 1GB and a 256mb n6600 video card to get better running and
more detail in CFS 3, AOE III, Fable and Halo. It was running games under XP
that forced my hardware upgrades.

It just so happened that what I had suited Vista, and I have done no more
upgrades of any kind. It runs as well as XP ever did, and with the bells and
whistles in place. If anything does take longer, I just have a few extra
draws on a cigarette, but I have hardly noticed a difference.

There is one obvious visual difference however. XP was in the habit of
telling the user that a process had finished when it actually hadn't.

Personally, Vista has given me a lot less trouble than XP did, and when one
of the computers on the network gotten infected with something (down to user
carelessness), all XP machines had to be reworked, but Vista wasn't affected
at all.

There is an issue coming out of sleep mode which is down to the nVidia
169.25 video driver, but apart from that, all is well.

Anybody using this machine would wonder why all the Vista bashing. I think
that there is a desire by some to become anti-Vista heroes, but they will go
the same way as the XP bashers did, hoping that people will forget what they
wrote about Vista.

Oh well..

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Mike Hall - MVP said:
Mine isn't exactly state of the art anymore, and wasn't when I bought it.
Back then it was AMD 64 3500, 1 GB and integrated nVidia 6100 video. I
bought an extra 1GB and a 256mb n6600 video card to get better running and
more detail in CFS 3, AOE III, Fable and Halo. It was running games under XP
that forced my hardware upgrades.

It just so happened that what I had suited Vista, and I have done no more
upgrades of any kind. It runs as well as XP ever did, and with the bells and
whistles in place. If anything does take longer, I just have a few extra
draws on a cigarette, but I have hardly noticed a difference.

There is one obvious visual difference however. XP was in the habit of
telling the user that a process had finished when it actually hadn't.

Personally, Vista has given me a lot less trouble than XP did, and when one
of the computers on the network gotten infected with something (down to user
carelessness), all XP machines had to be reworked, but Vista wasn't affected
at all.

There is an issue coming out of sleep mode which is down to the nVidia
169.25 video driver, but apart from that, all is well.

Anybody using this machine would wonder why all the Vista bashing. I think
that there is a desire by some to become anti-Vista heroes, but they will go
the same way as the XP bashers did, hoping that people will forget what they
wrote about Vista.

Oh well..
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My main macine is an AMD XP-2800 with 1.5 gigs of RAM and
and an n6600 video.
Though it will run Vista...I use Win2k as the machine is a lot faster.

Other than the win3x version of Tetris I've probably mentioned somewhere...
I don't really use it for gaming.

As a matter of fact, most of the time I'm just on Usenet so I could get by
just as
well with win95 on a 386 <G>

However last year I had a few major projects...
the biggest one was a Publisher document that grew to over 1 gig!
The machine got rather slow in saving the data to say the least.

I guess to be fair...I'll have to try running Publisher on a Vista machine
of the same specs
 
cgd said:
Well, I'm using Vista since it came out in November 2006, and after a
short time of getting to know it (with, i must admit, some mild cursing
from time to time...) i've grown quite fond of it.
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It's known as the "Stockholm syndrome". Read about it here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

"Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an
abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the
hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which the
hostage has been placed."

Cheers.

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Frank, hard at work on his Vista computer all day:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/compost.htm
 
NoStop said:
cgd wrote:




It's known as the "Stockholm syndrome". Read about it here ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

"Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an
abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the
hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which the
hostage has been placed."
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A great description of you, the linux fanatic.
Maybe you need to look up fanatic.
Frank
 
Bob said:
Is it possible for someone to give objective reasons why they think Vista
is better than XP?
Please try to keep emotion out of replies
Bob
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No.

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Is it possible for someone to give objective reasons why they think
Vista is better than XP?
Please try to keep emotion out of replies
Bob
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Thank you all for replying. Except for some Linux bashing many were able
to keep to the topic. From all the responses there were a few positive
and some negative, but many seemed resigned to the inevitable. On the
whole it appears like the main reason for upgrading at this time is
because it is being forced onto us.
I'm the type of person that does not like to change. I hung on to win 98
SE until business forced me to upgrade to win 2K and I loved it. I
finally had to change to XP last year. It was not a difficult transition
and works well, although I find no real advantage. Now I would like a new
Laptop and it appears I am forced to get Vista. I will play with it for a
while, but probably put XP on it. The company I contract for is not yet
converting to Vista so I am not forced to upgrade "yet". I have high
hopes that win 7 will be a definite improvement.
Bob
 
Bob said:
Thank you all for replying. Except for some Linux bashing many were able
to keep to the topic. From all the responses there were a few positive
and some negative, but many seemed resigned to the inevitable. On the
whole it appears like the main reason for upgrading at this time is
because it is being forced onto us.
I'm the type of person that does not like to change. I hung on to win 98
SE until business forced me to upgrade to win 2K and I loved it. I
finally had to change to XP last year. It was not a difficult transition
and works well, although I find no real advantage. Now I would like a new
Laptop and it appears I am forced to get Vista. I will play with it for a
while, but probably put XP on it. The company I contract for is not yet
converting to Vista so I am not forced to upgrade "yet". I have high
hopes that win 7 will be a definite improvement.
Bob
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Dell sells XP laptops.

Alias
 
Is it possible for someone to give objective reasons why they think Vista
is better than XP?
Please try to keep emotion out of replies
Bob
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It has a really cool UI and is an excuse to upgrade hardware.
 
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