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| Thread ID: 81719 | 2007-08-05 00:49:00 | Is Vista Really Worth It All? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 576595 | 2007-08-05 03:20:00 | Look its called the endless upgrade cycle and it means Intel, AMD and Microsoft can continue income streams. Its called capitalism where the objective is to get all the money you can get out of people whether they need the item or not. Heard of upselling, well upgrading is a similar concept :p People who purchased one galvanised Nail also purchased 1 automatic opening garage door 50 litres of paint to paint their house 1 new kitchen 1 new bathroom “The reason we come up with new versions is not to fix bugs. It's absolutely not. It's the stupidest reason to buy a new version I ever heard. When we do a new version we put in lots of new things that people are asking for. And so, in no sense, is stability a reason to move to a new version. It's never a reason.” Gates was explaining that people buy software to obtain perceived value, and that users commonly don't see value in paying for fixes to a product's outstanding flaws. People generally expect to gain significant new features. Of course, even there Apple has Gates beat: it has delivered three paid OS upgrades in the same period Microsoft has struggled just to deliver Vista." www.roughlydrafted.com |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 576596 | 2007-08-05 03:34:00 | FCP2 :) www.pcauthority.com.au PhotoshopCS3 www.pcauthority.com.au I can't see a single shred of relevancy in your links, perhaps you can explain? Cue-Uninformed irrelevant babble. If its just to showcase that some Mac application can work with HD video then you need to re-read my comment, Its not 1938, Plenty of video editing suites work with high-definition video, Thats not the issue. Apple isn't special, Though I dear say many of its users would have been labeled with the tag. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 576597 | 2007-08-05 03:37:00 | Yep, totally . What Surferjoe seems to have done is confuse advances in hadware with Operating Systems . MS would like you to think their O/S is necessary for improved gaming and so on but it isn't . Well very small parts of it maybe, certainly not the entire package . What I was looking for was the parallel of the new OPSYS and the new hardware to fully appreciate and run it . I see it as closely associated with each other . . . at least from Madison Avenue's and Billy's perspective . What I really think is that even though there are advances in hardware . . and admit it, some are for the sake of newer programs and vice-versa . . . the real problem is overselling and hyping NEW = BETTER in all phases of computers and programs/systems . If it were just gaming, then I think running a specialized computer is prolly the best route . . . not unlike the Segas and Vic20s of many, many years ago . . . and just leave the web and things www to the computers that we already have . Just think of it as a specialized system that could be rather easily updated, have hardware and firmware changes all the time till your eyes bug out, and still have a much cheaper and much more reliable web surfer computer that will in all likelihood never go out of style or become as obsolete as they are want to do now . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 576598 | 2007-08-05 03:43:00 | I can't see a single shred of relevancy in your links, perhaps you can explain? Cue-Uninformed irrelevant babble. If its just to showcase that some Mac application can work with HD video then you need to re-read my comment, Its not 1938, Plenty of video editing suites work with high-definition video, Thats not the issue. Apple isn't special, Though I dear say many of its users would have been labeled with the tag. FCP2 is obviously Mac only HDDV but Photoshop is an ideal cross platform candidate for multi core processors and is pretty much an everyday application> End Uninformed irrelevant babble ;) |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 576599 | 2007-08-05 03:56:00 | If it were just gaming, then I think running a specialized computer is prolly the best route...not unlike the Segas and Vic20s of many, many years ago...and just leave the web and things www to the computers that we already have. Just think of it as a specialized system that could be rather easily updated, have hardware and firmware changes all the time till your eyes bug out, and still have a much cheaper and much more reliable web surfer computer that will in all likelihood never go out of style or become as obsolete as they are want to do now. Uh...why would we want that? a poorly performing computer and a handicapped gaming machine? What we currently have is the best of both worlds, Gaming rigs that can be built to match our desired performance and budget, that can also take care of all multi-media tasks at a high rate of knots, and can still be used for web-surfing and email. There is just far more to the picture, Hell, the current consoles have comparable graphics, but are so limited in their capabilities I wouldn't bother with one for free. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 576600 | 2007-08-05 03:59:00 | Of course it's needed. How else would Intel sell the new hisher speed CPUs, disk manufacturers the new huge disks, memeory manufacturers the enormous memory chips, without a resource hogging OS to mop up all these advances? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 576601 | 2007-08-05 05:31:00 | I thought it was to make use of the multitasking ability required for a home entertainment setup and assorted high end applications used in science etc. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 576602 | 2007-08-06 08:59:00 | I also cannot find any reason to upgrade, xp does everything i need it to, is easy to swap componants and should run well for a few years yet. | limepile (96) | ||
| 576603 | 2007-08-06 11:11:00 | The trouble is, vista's worth is, for all intents and purposes, is irrelevant. Windows is the default setting. It's all very well not to upgrade the software but sooner or later, in order to replace the hardware, you'll have to get the software. I know that there is Mac out there. And those of us on Linux, but by the time we become a force Vista will be long buried. | joemac (9739) | ||
| 576604 | 2007-08-06 11:17:00 | I think that an equilibrium will be found in due course. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
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