windows vista sucks
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From: Kzoo
Yeah, Vista looks sweet but it will suck reliability wise for about the next year..or two, if you haven't had any problems awesome your cool but if your like me and add new hardware to your computer every now and then well, you'll have problems because these companies that create hardware all haven't had the chance yet to develop drivers for vista....
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So far have I have only tinkered around with two different vista machines.
My uncle bought a very high dollar Sony machine, Vista platinum, 2 gigs of ram and a dual core AMD processor, 3.3 ghz I think. Amazingly it only runs a tad faster then my new to me dell with a 2.52 p4 ang a gig of ram. My old machine use to blow it out of the water until i sold it, windows xp pro running on, a asus P5PE-VM mother board, 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, with 2 gig of ram. Needless to say hes ticked off that his 2500 dollar machine barely speeds past a 3 year old dell. I didn't even speed a 4th of the cost building my old machine, and it simply blew past his no matter what it was doing.
My sister just bought a new HP pc with vista home premium, a gig of ram, and a 3.06 p4 processor, and it runs SSSLLLOOOWWW. It runs just about as fast our old junker Emachine, with a 1.44 hz p4 and 512 ram.
It seems like vista eats a lot of memory and resources just to stay running, it may have pretty animations for everything but it just isn't worth in my case. I keep running the same 5 year copy of XP pro as long as I can, until the day comes when i can no longer get a activation ID over the phone.
I've been messing around with a couple different flavors of linux on my machine, as soon as I find something I like it'll replace my window woes forever.
My uncle bought a very high dollar Sony machine, Vista platinum, 2 gigs of ram and a dual core AMD processor, 3.3 ghz I think. Amazingly it only runs a tad faster then my new to me dell with a 2.52 p4 ang a gig of ram. My old machine use to blow it out of the water until i sold it, windows xp pro running on, a asus P5PE-VM mother board, 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, with 2 gig of ram. Needless to say hes ticked off that his 2500 dollar machine barely speeds past a 3 year old dell. I didn't even speed a 4th of the cost building my old machine, and it simply blew past his no matter what it was doing.
My sister just bought a new HP pc with vista home premium, a gig of ram, and a 3.06 p4 processor, and it runs SSSLLLOOOWWW. It runs just about as fast our old junker Emachine, with a 1.44 hz p4 and 512 ram.
It seems like vista eats a lot of memory and resources just to stay running, it may have pretty animations for everything but it just isn't worth in my case. I keep running the same 5 year copy of XP pro as long as I can, until the day comes when i can no longer get a activation ID over the phone.
I've been messing around with a couple different flavors of linux on my machine, as soon as I find something I like it'll replace my window woes forever.
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Originally Posted by jake00
did you spring for a new laptop?
oh yea, took advantage of a sale and tax free weekend on school supplies here in tn and got one, a nice toshiba fully loaded, at least as loaded as i need it to be.
my dell was giving to many problems no matter what i did, then last week it developed a new power problem, seems to not want to charge all the time, so i figure but now and save.
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Originally Posted by 35l911
it still crashes alot but now i get the blue screen of death now. i didn't get it before and windows keeps telling me that the problem is with either my ram, processor(swapped from another rig), power supply(new 400watt), or main board(reliable msi 478 pt880-neo ms7008 ver1), and this didn't start until i upgraded the ram from 700 to a gig.
Wonder if some of the problem exsist from swapping out the processor if if the OS was not reinstalled?
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Originally Posted by jimbo beam
So far have I have only tinkered around with two different vista machines.
My uncle bought a very high dollar Sony machine, Vista platinum, 2 gigs of ram and a dual core AMD processor, 3.3 ghz I think. Amazingly it only runs a tad faster then my new to me dell with a 2.52 p4 ang a gig of ram. My old machine use to blow it out of the water until i sold it, windows xp pro running on, a asus P5PE-VM mother board, 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, with 2 gig of ram. Needless to say hes ticked off that his 2500 dollar machine barely speeds past a 3 year old dell. I didn't even speed a 4th of the cost building my old machine, and it simply blew past his no matter what it was doing.
My uncle bought a very high dollar Sony machine, Vista platinum, 2 gigs of ram and a dual core AMD processor, 3.3 ghz I think. Amazingly it only runs a tad faster then my new to me dell with a 2.52 p4 ang a gig of ram. My old machine use to blow it out of the water until i sold it, windows xp pro running on, a asus P5PE-VM mother board, 3.0 ghz core 2 duo, with 2 gig of ram. Needless to say hes ticked off that his 2500 dollar machine barely speeds past a 3 year old dell. I didn't even speed a 4th of the cost building my old machine, and it simply blew past his no matter what it was doing.
I haven't heard anything. Figured you weren't using it yet.
Oh by the way, your welcome!
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I upgraded to vista home pro on my gateway duel core pc shortly after vista was released. microsoft said they would soon be offering an additional license for only fifty dollars but was not available for that price at the time. yesterday I went to the vista web page and now they are charging 150 dollars for the additional license. the fifty dollar offer must have been short and sweet. I still run xp on my dell xps core duo gaming rig, but I wanted to get another license for direct x 10 gaming.
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