XP or Vista what's the real deal?

INTELCRAZY · 01-20-2008, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted by imsati

I was waiting for someone to lay the hate down on Dell, too. Surprised at how quickly it happened, though.

Lemmings, I say.

Too bad you guys couldn't produce any useful knowledge... You know I was actually trying to get along with the Vista haters(yes, you've been labeled) but, you've elevated the hostility, again...

Btw, have you tried Dell's drivers for their WLAN cards or their 8600M GT drivers? (Didn't think so)

johnny · 01-20-2008, 06:56 AM

A lot of ppl bash Vista, but they always find excuses about stability. A lot have just made assumtions mostly from the Beta version. I personally use both Vista Ultimate (when I'm at home) and Home Premium (Its on my laptop which I keep with me at uni which is away from home) and I find it great.

patrickv · 01-20-2008, 07:12 AM

wow, another vista thread as much as i would like to state why i downgraded my thinkpad to xp i won't do it. probably this will cause Forum (gang) wars

imsati · 01-20-2008, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by INTELCRAZY

Too bad you guys couldn't produce any useful knowledge... You know I was actually trying to get along with the Vista haters(yes, you've been labeled) but, you've elevated the hostility, again...

I didn't elevate anything. I simply knew after reading half the first post what the Thread was going to turn into and wondered How long it would take for someone with a Dell comment to show up.

As far as producing useful knowledge, why bother in a Thread like this? Do a search for 'XP VIsta' and find the dozens of similar-Topics. I personally loved the Popcorn and Horse pics that were posted, because, hell they just fit.

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Btw, have you tried Dell's drivers for their WLAN cards or their 8600M GT drivers? (Didn't think so)

You would be correct in your assumptions. However, since it's no secret that I neither:

A) enjoy working on wireless and often refuse service calls to do so, and
B) I have zero desire to have a graphics card of that nature and none of my Clients use their systems for gaming...

...I fail to see your victory in that statement.

XP or Vista? Cookies or brownies? Star Trek or Star Wars? Pooh or Tigger? Elmo or Big Bird? Quake or Doom? Jeff Gordon or Dale Jr.? Peppermint or Spearmint?

See how stupid this is?

In closing, label me whatever the hell you want

INTELCRAZY · 01-20-2008, 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imsati

I didn't elevate anything. I simply knew after reading half the first post what the Thread was going to turn into and wondered How long it would take for someone with a Dell comment to show up.

As far as producing useful knowledge, why bother in a Thread like this? Do a search for 'XP VIsta' and find the dozens of similar-Topics. I personally loved the Popcorn and Horse pics that were posted, because, hell they just fit.

You would be correct in your assumptions. However, since it's no secret that I neither:

A) enjoy working on wireless and often refuse service calls to do so, and
B) I have zero desire to have a graphics card of that nature and none of my Clients use their systems for gaming...

...I fail to see your victory in that statement.

XP or Vista? Cookies or brownies? Star Trek or Star Wars? Pooh or Tigger? Elmo or Big Bird? Quake or Doom? Jeff Gordon or Dale Jr.? Peppermint or Spearmint?

See how stupid this is?

In closing, label me whatever the hell you want

That's part of the problem, when they do go to search through the threads, they see XP, XP, XP.... And they trust that because ppl put the words Vista, BSOD, Compatibility, Driver error, slow, and unresponsive in a sentence. One of which I have seen but, they believe that and every other forum/blog that doesn't like Vista.

You might be a smart person for that...

Had I not got aggravated with Fedora 8 you wouldn't have seen that comment because I would've kept Linux instead of Vista. But, it takes 20 different operations to install a picky Nvidia driver, and I really didn't know what I was doing...

nikopolidis · 01-21-2008, 11:03 AM

Well I have some thoughts about Vista and some negative experience using it.
Of course it looks nice and surely it is next big step of Microsoft Co to improve its OS.
My relatives have Windows Vista on their Samsung R20 notebooks. This notes have rather good characteristics but still Vista runs rather hard and slow on them. So the first disadvantage of Vista - it is too resource intensive. My dad had some problems with software installing on Vista. For example he couldn't run Rumors (soft for Forex) without expert support. Second disadvantage of Vista - it is not adopted to all software. For my opinion this 2 disadvantages are main and evident.
I think we all will use Windows in some time just like we started using XP some years ago. They need time to improve it. At the beginning XP wasn't perfect as well as we all remember. Also we need to improve and renew our machines to run Vista.
My recommendation is to be with XP still for some time.

daniel11 · 01-21-2008, 07:16 PM

The deal is that vista is good for games becouse it have Directx 10

newguy5 · 01-21-2008, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew Russell

Well, most of the people that you hear about on the internet just say they hate Vista because everyone else does. Most people never even have tried it, but they hate on it any chance they get.

yeah but i've read professional reviews (more of them) that say vista is no good. i have seen few professional reviews saying vista is all that great, so i don't really care if you and your mom are running vista and it's working fine. there might be plenty of things you didn't know that vista is screwing up that a professional can notice. so for me, reading a positive or negative review from an average joe blow, i couldn't care if he used the product or not, it's kind of worthless info to me.

hNic · 01-21-2008, 07:59 PM

Vista is just XP with make-up on....

She looks pretty...but it's the same old bitch underneath.....

JLV2k5 · 01-21-2008, 08:07 PM

Vista 64bits can support more that 3.5 gigs of RAM
Vista supports DirectX 10 video cards.

besides that, there isnt too much that vista has over Xp. These benefits only really apply to gamers like myself

01-20-2008, 06:56 AM	#12 (permalink)
johnny Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Age: 18 Posts: 241	A lot of ppl bash Vista, but they always find excuses about stability. A lot have just made assumtions mostly from the Beta version. I personally use both Vista Ultimate (when I'm at home) and Home Premium (Its on my laptop which I keep with me at uni which is away from home) and I find it great. __________________ Windows Vista Ultimate Xion Solaris Black/Green Mid ATX Case w/Neon Glow Intel 975XBX2KR Intel Socket 775 ATX -Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Kingston Dual Channel HyperX 2048MB DDR2 800MHz Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA Hard Drive BFG GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E Dual DVI/HDTV/HDCP Enabled Video Card Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI Sound Card Sony DVD Burner and Sony 1.44 MB Floppy Drive 24" Samsung LCD TV/Monitor

01-20-2008, 07:12 AM	#13 (permalink)
patrickv Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Soul Chamber Posts: 5,338	wow, another vista thread as much as i would like to state why i downgraded my thinkpad to xp i won't do it. probably this will cause Forum (gang) wars __________________ Laptop: Thinkpad X60: Core2Duo T7200 @ 2Ghz,1GB DDR2,110GB SATA -winXP ProSP2 Work Desktop: Core Duo E2180 @ 2Ghz,1.5GB DDR2,240GB HD - XP PRO SP2 Home: Core Duo E2180 2Ghz,1.5GB DDR2,Nvidia GForce 6200TB,320 GB (2x160GB) -Dual boot - XP / OSX 10.5.2

01-21-2008, 07:16 PM	#17 (permalink)
daniel11 New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 17	The deal is that vista is good for games becouse it have Directx 10 __________________ My system profile: Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Motherboard:ECS G33t-M2 Hard Drive:Maxtor 320GB Video Card:GeForce 8600GT Ram:Corsair 2GB DDR2

01-21-2008, 07:59 PM	#19 (permalink)
hNic Silver Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 239	Vista is just XP with make-up on.... She looks pretty...but it's the same old bitch underneath..... __________________ PC!! Asus K8N 4E-Deluxe, 2.5GB DDR RAM, 160 WD SATA HD, Ati Radeon x800 Lappy!! Acer AS5100-5300 AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-50, 2GB PC5300 DDR2 667MHZ, 160GB 5400RPM HDD, Ati Radeon Xpress 1100

01-21-2008, 08:07 PM	#20 (permalink)
JLV2k5 Diamond Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: University of Delaware Age: 21 Posts: 1,291	Vista 64bits can support more that 3.5 gigs of RAM Vista supports DirectX 10 video cards. besides that, there isnt too much that vista has over Xp. These benefits only really apply to gamers like myself __________________ Can't wait to finish college and build my system.

01-21-2008, 11:03 AM	#16 (permalink)
nikopolidis Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 102	Well I have some thoughts about Vista and some negative experience using it. Of course it looks nice and surely it is next big step of Microsoft Co to improve its OS. My relatives have Windows Vista on their Samsung R20 notebooks. This notes have rather good characteristics but still Vista runs rather hard and slow on them. So the first disadvantage of Vista - it is too resource intensive. My dad had some problems with software installing on Vista. For example he couldn't run Rumors (soft for Forex) without expert support. Second disadvantage of Vista - it is not adopted to all software. For my opinion this 2 disadvantages are main and evident. I think we all will use Windows in some time just like we started using XP some years ago. They need time to improve it. At the beginning XP wasn't perfect as well as we all remember. Also we need to improve and renew our machines to run Vista. My recommendation is to be with XP still for some time.

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