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Hurricane Andrew
Way to be specific there, Skippy. It's clear you have quite a bit of
learning yet to do.
learning yet to do.
Stephan said:Oh let's see....useless eye candy...
Ridiculous hardware requirements...
Restrictive environment..
Software and hardware incompatibility....
Less resources available for your apps...
Lang said:So speaketh the expert on all things Windows...
Hurricane said:Likely the graphics card, I'd wager. Since Vista uses a new display
model, the graphics card can be the most "visible" (pardon the pun)
sign of "sluggishness". In fact, under the hood, Vista is doing a
lot more on a regular basis, from indexing, to superfetch, etc. I
run Folding@Home on all of my systems, and on my dual boot Vista/XP
boxes, it is quite easy to measure the true speed difference between
the two OS's, and consistently Vista processes work units 6-10%
faster than XP on identical hardware.
Lang said:Stephan,
Wow, thanks for the extended reply... much appreciated.
As to Vista and the high hw requirement... I'm not sure I understand. Are
you saying one shouldn't need a card with pixel 2 shading or whatever it's
called, to get Aero or the other "benefits" of WDDM?
Vronans said:One could argue Microsoft invented such exclusive "capabilities" such as
DX10... which will likely end up in XP some way or another.
Lang said:Stephan,
Well, your points all seem rational... unusual for a Linux geek ;-D
Of course, I'm just "ribbing" you... I fully appreciate your detailed
responses as they surely are food for thought.
Right -- Often enough I suggest to clients the 'one OS back' rule.around 10 XP licenses =P
See when MS released Vista and expected everyone to switch operating
systems, well..I did what they wanted me to. I switched OS. I just didn't
switch to Vista. =)
BSchnur said:Right -- Often enough I suggest to clients the 'one OS back' rule.
When Microsoft releases a new OS, it is time for them to move up to a
newer OS. So they are looking at the move from Win2K SP4 to WinXP SP2
as they deploy new systems.
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