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Thread ID: 75407	2006-12-28 02:07:00	The cost of Vista	pine-o-cleen (2955)	PC World Chat

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510359	2007-01-03 18:13:00	Apple wouldn't go for "premium content" if it was the last option for survival on earth after a nuclear holocost and Steve Jobs had been dead for 10 years.	winmacguy (3367)
510360	2007-01-03 22:42:00	Awwww... man I totally forgot to deliberately 'infest' my Vista before I got rid of it! I know it wasnt as stable as I would have liked, applications dying, little popups telling me COM something has died and "Would I like to check online for a solution?" The security was the biggest joke, the constant popups drove me psycho! I swear it'd be easier to give my family a Gentoo system running KDE than to teach them with Vista :(	Chilling_Silence (9)
510361	2007-01-04 00:03:00	Awwww... man I totally forgot to deliberately 'infest' my Vista before I got rid of it! I think that would happen regardless I think Chilling Silence ;)	winmacguy (3367)
510362	2007-01-04 00:52:00	Vista isn't all that bad, just don't try to run it with less than 1gb RAM. It could do with a bit better driver support, but that will come in time. It has stolen a few good features from OSX, and the DRM that everyone is fuming about hasn't caused me any trouble - I found vista to be quite stable, and I won't be purchasing "premium content" so I won't have to worry about it being downgraded. All your pirated HD content will still run in it's full glory - it is just the DRM content (that you won't be able to play on Operating systems that don't support the DRM) that is downgraded.	Greven (91)
510363	2007-01-04 01:06:00	V It has stolen a few good features from OSX, yes indeed it did although they didn't do a very good job of it. Much like they did with Windows 95 desktop which they copied and rotated. Even Linux has had the Dock for sometime. I understand with Vista that you must have a set configuration for you apps in the dock, is that true? Even Sun and NeXT OS had the "Aero Glass" GUI back in the mid 90s. With Mac one size fits all, with Vista you get variations of being hamstrung unless you want to cough up the full $$$ They also copied the Desk top widgets and called them gadgets or something..how original:D You still need 3rd party security apps to remain secure unlike OS X. No speedy Spotlight search feature although they have improved the Back Up facility. No method of dual or running virtual apps either.... I'd save my cash and stick with XP till the start of next year personally unless your going to cross over.	winmacguy (3367)
510364	2007-01-04 01:22:00	Vista is just catching up to the point that Apple has already passed with 10.4	winmacguy (3367)
510365	2007-01-04 01:40:00	Apple wouldn't go for "premium content" if it was the last option for survival on earth after a nuclear holocost and Steve Jobs had been dead for 10 years. never say never (remember the intel switch many said that would never happen, including me)	plod (107)
510366	2007-01-04 01:42:00	Awwww... man I totally forgot to deliberately 'infest' my Vista before I got rid of it! I know it wasnt as stable as I would have liked, applications dying, little popups telling me COM something has died and "Would I like to check online for a solution?" The security was the biggest joke, the constant popups drove me psycho! I swear it'd be easier to give my family a Gentoo system running KDE than to teach them with Vista :( Is it true what I'm hearing that the 64bit version is more secure then the 32bit version, I take it most virues and spyware are 32bit? or am I not thinking correctly	plod (107)
510367	2007-01-04 01:51:00	In theory there is... in practice I'm not so sure. M$ will try to lock up various technologies so you are forced to stay with M$. Although my camera might work with Linux, it may not either. It has official Windows drivers, it doesn't have Linux drivers (although as I say, it MAY work with Linux). Mind you it may not work with Vista either.I've been running live linux disks on computers all over the country... i did one where the video card or the size of monitor wasn't supported well, and didn't have time to find out which, however crappy video did not stop the machine running without me locating drivers etc. That was my only glitch this year that wasn't purely my own creation. Normally running Linux is the easy way to get passed all the lipstick on the overweight pig vista has been described as, and thus access the content of any portable storage device, like a camera, mp3 player, or whatever. Almost all the programs i have seen provided for making such devices useful on windows are the Paris Hilton of software, in other words, trying to be sexy and glamorous but utterly failing to be anything more than useless annoying trash better suited for public ridicule. It's also noted that Microsoft's attempts to lock devices tend not to work.. How many hours after release did it take before someone successfully installed a Linux system on a X-box? IIRC, the answer was in single figures.	personthingy (1670)
510368	2007-01-04 01:58:00	never say never (remember the intel switch many said that would never happen, including me) Ah but only Steve Jobs knew the real reason for the switch IBM was never going to come up with a Quad Core chip. Steve doesn't like noise when using a computer and with a cooler cpu you don't need so many fans.	winmacguy (3367)
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