Which OS would you go with?

jimkonow · 01-24-2008, 06:21 PM

it depends on how powerful the machine youre running is...though i prefer XP, for certain reasons i cannot discuss here

shawn_selig29 · 01-24-2008, 06:51 PM

vista ultimate...... having the power to do everything.....and having a os to last longer in the future then xp...

tlarkin · 01-24-2008, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by shawn_selig29

vista ultimate...... having the power to do everything.....and having a os to last longer in the future then xp...

Another contrived opinion about Vista. The only differences between Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate will not affect the home user at all. Ultimate offers encrypted file system support (I hope no home user ever uses this). Built in faxing software - easily fixed by buying third party, the ability to connect to domain level networks - again more feature limiting on MS's part but no home user needs to connect to a domain controller, and I think remote desktop. Oh darn, go download VNC its free, there is your remote desktop.

**mep916** · 01-24-2008, 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

Another contrived opinion about Vista. The only differences between Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate will not affect the home user at all. Ultimate offers encrypted file system support (I hope no home user ever uses this). Built in faxing software - easily fixed by buying third party, the ability to connect to domain level networks - again more feature limiting on MS's part but no home user needs to connect to a domain controller, and I think remote desktop. Oh darn, go download VNC its free, there is your remote desktop.

You forgot about Texas Hold 'em and Dreamscene.

Kornowski · 01-24-2008, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by mep916

You forgot about Texas Hold 'em and Dreamscene.

I've got Dreamscene on Home Premium

All this stuff you here about Vista being full of bugs and hard to run... it just isn't... At all!

I've also found it to be well faster than XP too... but just my opinion!

**mep916** · 01-24-2008, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Kornowski

I've got Dreamscene on Home Premium

Oh, I thought that was limited to Ultimate.

I'm havin' problems installing Ultimate x64. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with Vista.

tlarkin · 01-24-2008, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Kornowski

I've got Dreamscene on Home Premium

All this stuff you here about Vista being full of bugs and hard to run... it just isn't... At all!

I've also found it to be well faster than XP too... but just my opinion!

Let me see where I had issues with vista...

Wacom tablets, 1.5 years old, not compatible with vista

Novell client (could be better now) although it worked, not with out its caveats.

Several printers don't work w/ 64bit that we had at my work

several needed applications won't work unless you upgrade, cost of upgrading was thousands and thousands in licenses. Not worth upgrading at this point.

networking - tons of issues

and of course the giant increase of hardware resources used.

Vista does not out perform XP though, and even if you dig through benchmarks you will find them neck and neck or XP beating vista. It just gives you the illusion by preloading applications into memory. Loading time may be a bit faster but actual performance while using an application is identical. Which is why its not worth the several hundred dollars to upgrade IMO.

Garethman!!` · 01-24-2008, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Kornowski

I've also found it to be well faster than XP too... but just my opinion!

Most users who have upgraded to Vista have noticed this, including me on my Athlon XP 3000+ college machine!

Athlon XP 3000+
1GB RAM
80GB HDD
Radeon 9250
Windows Experience Index = 1.0

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Originally Posted by tlarkin

Vista does not out perform XP though, and even if you dig through benchmarks you will find them neck and neck or XP beating vista. It just gives you the illusion by preloading applications into memory. Loading time may be a bit faster but actual performance while using an application is identical. Which is why its not worth the several hundred dollars to upgrade IMO.

Its actually $69 to upgrade to Vista Basic on Newegg. On a test on my AthlonXP rig I did a month ago on another forum, Vista beat XP on almost every test, one by a very long way.

tlarkin · 01-24-2008, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Garethman!!`

Its actually $69 to upgrade to Vista Basic on Newegg. On a test on my AthlonXP rig I did a month ago on another forum, Vista beat XP on almost every test, one by a very long way.

Not worth it to upgrade and lose features from XP, also provide links where Vista beats it out because from what I have read it hasn't and I will go google those links now.

Garethman!!` · 01-24-2008, 07:59 PM

Here is the link to the tests I did where I proved Vista beats XP on the lowest of the lowest PCs you would consider running Vista on

http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=2166

View Poll Results: Which OS would you go with
Linux	9	15.52%
Vista	27	46.55%
XP	22	37.93%
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01-24-2008, 06:21 PM	#41 (permalink)
jimkonow Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chatham, New York Age: 17 Posts: 933	it depends on how powerful the machine youre running is...though i prefer XP, for certain reasons i cannot discuss here __________________ E4500 @ 2.2GHz Acer AL2216W @ 1680x1050 Gigabyte P35-DS3L 2048MB OCZ DDR2-800 80GB Excelstor SATA 3.0 MSI HD2600XT (256MB GDDR4) NEC DVD-R-DL

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01-24-2008, 07:59 PM	#50 (permalink)
Garethman!!` Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: UK and USA Age: 17 Posts: 821	Here is the link to the tests I did where I proved Vista beats XP on the lowest of the lowest PCs you would consider running Vista on http://forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?t=2166 __________________ CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK-53 1.70GHz RAM : 8GB DDR2-800 PC6400 A-DATA / 2GB DDR2-667 PC5300 A-DATA HDD : Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB SATA/ Hitatchi Travelstar 120GB 5400RPM GPU :Sapphire Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB / Radeon Xpress 1150 128MB OS : Windows Vista Ultimate / Windows Vista Home Premium

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