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| 539468 | 2007-04-10 06:48:00 | <sigh> Yes, you are right, of course, that the Vista thing has been done to death here but I was sort of looking at it from another angle . Or at least I thought I was . :rolleyes: It's just that I had a play with Vista in DSE the other day and came away musing to myself that if I was to buy a new laptop, whether I would pick one with Vista or WinXP on it, assuming that it was plenty grunty enough to run the former . Sadly, the one and only reason I could come up with to want Vista is to familiarise myself with it but I was kind of hoping someone would give me other reasons, apart from games, which I don't do . Maybe I ought to get Jen to delete this thread, it was a bad idea . :( No, it wasn't a bad idea, Foxy . Although there have been lots of pro & anti-Vista posts in several threads, it would've been good to have some actual comparison facts (ignoring gaming, as you said) once people had their hardware sorted . And so far, only Godfather prefers Vista over XP - using your actual criteria . It'll be interesting to see whether it gets any more votes (unrelated to games, of course) . And if so, why? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 539469 | 2007-04-10 07:06:00 | It is probably "better" mainly in the looks department. It looks flashier and more swish but other than that I would say that the various forms of most aspects of Vista have been well covered though out these forums. Give it 12 months till there is more mainstream 3rd party software available and a Vista service pack and it will probably be a reasonable upgrade from XP. Till then you will probably end up dealing with the frustration of not being able to get some drivers for printers, scanners or cameras etc till they are made Vista compatible. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 539470 | 2007-04-10 07:18:00 | However, it does run under DX9 you know. Just did some reading on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org Looks like you're right, it'll support both DX9 & DX10! Hooray for me, might be worth the upgrade to a 6600GT AGP card sometime then. Cant afford a whole system upgrade to PCI-e just at the moment :( I'm currently playing with a customers build, it has a yummy 8800GTS in it, 3DMark06 was very impressive. Oh, how I want to keep it.:) :O lucky you! Keen to hear how it goes :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 539471 | 2007-04-10 07:34:00 | Well it scored 7641 . Not bad with 1Gb and a AMD X2 4600+ . And the flying boat demo looked utterly gorgeous, better than on mine . Gaming is cool, customers kid has tried out FEAR already and is dying to get it home to install his other new games . Bugger, that means I have to let them take it home now . . . . . . . . . Theres just one teeny thing I have to do to it first though . . . . no, not pinch the card either . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 539472 | 2007-04-10 09:12:00 | I have a copy of Vista here but don't have a powerful enough pc to run it on unless I buy some extra memory (which I will) and take the graphics card out of my XP pc (which I won't unless Vista runs FS9 faster which I don't think it will). Usually I would be chaffing at the bit but I have been worn down by too much "the fastest Windows ever" etc etc and ongoing Windows security issues. I will have to convert my SuSE pc to a Vista pc (what am I doing :confused: )... yes Bill, I am. In summary, I currently have no reason to upgrade for other than educational purposes. I did try and install it on a pc which runs XP fine and Vista had some issues with drivers (the spec is the minimum for Vista). |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 539473 | 2007-04-10 09:21:00 | I tend to like it better than XP, once I got used to UAC, which probably does provide better security... Thanks Godfather, I was hoping you would reply. Unfortunately you haven't said why you like Vista better than Win XP though. Perhaps because it's new and different or maybe "just because"? |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 539474 | 2007-04-10 09:22:00 | I would get vista because ... I found the search function in Vista is excellent, whether it's a program or a single file on your hdd, as long as you remembered part of the name, you can find it easily. When it says searching for updated drivers on the internet, it really works, unlike XP where it always tell you unable to find driver. I've not yet ONCE be able to update a driver in XP using the internet update function. If I have to buy one, why not get the latest OS? |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 539475 | 2007-04-10 09:26:00 | No, it wasn't a bad idea, Foxy. Thanks Laura, that made me feel much better. :) Did you know that you have a very happy knack of brightening at least one person's day? I for one appreciate it, so thank you. :cool: |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 539476 | 2007-04-10 10:27:00 | Other than Vista's compatibility/drivers problem, I like Vista better than XP. As SKT174, the search function is Vista is MUCH, MUCH better than XP's. Great for people like me who puts things in random folders. :p | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 539477 | 2007-04-10 10:53:00 | Main reason I switched to Vista is because I'm a student so I get it free (Vista Business) under the MSDN AA (msdn2.microsoft.com) (yeah, yeah, I know I'm just a pawn in their move for market share). To be fair, I probably wouldn't have shelled out for it. I switched slowly as I'm not usually the 'early adapter' type (was quite happily on Win98 up until 2003, dodging XP - yep, I'm one of those :P). I VM'd Vista Ultimate for a couple of weeks, re-partitioned and installed Vista Ultimate for the last few weeks and am pretty happy with it after a couple of minor issues (sound and bluetooth drivers). I'm planning on cleaning my HDD off in the weekend to boot Vista Business primarily. I haven't had any problems with it otherwise and find it an improvement over XP. I'm sure SP1 won't be far off so I'll just take it as it comes. I've been playing with vLite (http://vlite.net/) and have managed a solid 800MB-ish install image of Vista (so close to a CD-R :?) which installs to about 5GB, so its not overly bloated. I dropped all the printer drivers (my machine is never connected to a printer directly) and other extraneous bits of the Vista install, bunged in the few drivers I need for my machine specifically and downgraded it to only cater to a Business install. (Vista discs usually come able to install any version; which is installed is determined by the key used.) Improvements for me include the way Explorer works (I like it waay better than Finder in OS X) especially with the breadcrumb path and Favorite links sidebar. The base directory structure out-of-the-box I like also (being semi-unix like). It's close to how I have my folders set out which is a big deal to me cos I'm a neat freak. I actually changed my XP install (http://www.nliteos.com/) to work this way because I'm so pedantic about it. I also like the Spotlight-like Start search function and I actually prefer the Vista version to the OS X version. I know there are third-party software solutions to this but its nice when its part of the OS as it should be. I find I use it more for Run commands but it works well otherwise. The last big plus for me is eye candy - maybe not so much Aero Glass and Flip 3D even though these are fine with me, but more the icons (which now have a higher range of sizes) and live folders. I've already gathered together a few registry and other tweaks and a few little apps to get it working the way I like. I'll keep an XP install around in Virtual Box (http://www.virtualbox.org/) for sure though, if only to reminisce :D godfather: I find turning off the screen blackout of UAC (www.howtogeek.com) makes it a lot less intrusive. This keeps it on for securities sake and allows you to carry on with something else if your busy, preventing the UAC dialog from being demandingly modal (en.wikipedia.org). |
sal (67) | ||
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