tlarkin
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Haha...You crack me up... No kidding, it's new software meant to go along with new hardware, why don't we have a FarCry vs. Crysis thread, oh wait, no one would complain about Crysis' higher requirements..
And that's the case where you run XP.. Besides, anyone WITH simple logical abilities would definitely know that they didn't need to upgrade their PC, so that would probably put them back at 98SE or 2000/ME.
You aren't listening to what I have been saying this whole time. I compare it to every OS, even the previous MS OSes. Take into account that every other OS which has better built in Open GL flashy UI stuff that has and boasts lower system requirements and better performance. Aqua, Beryl, Compiz, etc all out perform vista and on lower specs. Vista is a marketing scheme, and like i said it doesn't run faster, it creates the illusion of running faster. Microsoft is not the only OS that is guilty of this either, but that will be saved for another thread.
You have to update your OS at some point, its not like MS has fixed all those zero day exploits for 98 and 2000, and developers stop supporting it eventually, and applications do require more system requirements, however none of them come close to requiring what Vista does. Also, I am not talking about video games, gaming is something that is taxing on your system as is by its very nature. Gaming is also a niche market, only a small percentage of computer users are considered hard core gamers. I am talking about basic usage on my e6300 with 2gigs of RAM. Firefox, opera, with the exception of IE all run faster in XP, take up less memory and allow faster basic usage. If you want to get into high end stuff, I would like to see vista edit video or render 3D objects compared to any other OS.
So stop taking it out of context what I post and see it for yourself. Take two identical systems (or the same one) load XP and Vista on them, run all your basic applications, do all your basic things and see what performs better. My XP install never crashes, but when I boot into vista tons of applications are still buggy. For the cost of the upgrade, the lacking of features and the no real world performance increase Vista is not worth the money at all. I am waiting on Vienna, it should have all the features to make windows a decent OS, at least I hope.
When your answer is upgrade your hardware every time something doesn't work smoothly is not a good answer. The developers wrote sloppy code, and used the band aid approach to accomplish Vista. Why do you think they had to keep pushing back the release date? Why has everyone rolled back and why has so many companies offered XP? When XP came out, and you bought a new computer you did not get the choice of going back to 2000. It was a forced upgrade. Now, with the release of windows vista you are seeing for the first time companies going against their contracts and allowing their customers to go back to windows Xp on new computers. What does that tell you?