What benifits will you see from Windows Vista

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Jon Boy

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What benifits will Vista provide over XP?
Is it worth the huge amount it will be after its release?
And sorry if there as beenother threads on this I just not gone through the whole archive searching for it/them.
 
I dont think its worth upgrading any time soon, what i would do is wait until most apps/games become 64-bit, then upgrade to vista.
 
none till likely two years or more after its released and patched countless times and they finally decide what it will include

if they go ahead with all the rumors of more DRM and much faster hardware just to run it I see no benefit at all

I see no point myself in investing in more hardware just to get more eye candy to do the same tasks, if anything, they should be making it simpler.
 
Jon Boy said:
What benifits will Vista provide over XP?
Is it worth the huge amount it will be after its release?
And sorry if there as beenother threads on this I just not gone through the whole archive searching for it/them.
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nothing much. basically it just suppose to improve xp overall with security, networking, user experience, backup, etc.. and a really HUGE make-over.

worth the huge amount? i doubt it. unless you are someone that has to have the newest things, its nothing special considering that mostly everything out now isn't supported by vista yet.

check it out for yourself.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/default.aspx
 
I played with the beta a while back and it was horrible. I ran it on a 1.4GHz machine, and it wasn't much different than XP, yet was running much slower. Now maybe this beta is earlier than I realized, but I still don't think it'll be worth the upgrade. Even so, no time soon, that's for sure.
 
Well this has confused me because from what they wrote it sounds like it should actualy speed up my computer hehe, sure its just some silly marketing ploy though.
Microsoft said:
Performance
Windows Vista is designed to help make you more productive, with new features including Sleep, SuperFetch, External Memory Drive (EMD), and Hybrid Hard Drive. SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of available RAM. EMD technology helps boost performance without adding RAM. Windows Vista also takes advantage of Hybrid Hard Drive technology to help improve battery life, performance, and reliability. With Windows Vista, your system is ready when you are.
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Could anyone in te know explain that to me please hehe.
 
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Microsoft said:
External memory devices

Adding system memory (RAM) is often the best way to improve your PC's performance. More memory means more applications are ready to run without accessing the hard drive. However, upgrading memory is not always easy. You must learn what type of memory you need, purchase the memory, and open your computer to install the memory—which sometimes can invalidate your support agreement. Also, some machines have limited memory expansion capabilities, preventing you from adding RAM even if you are willing to do so.

Windows Vista introduces a new concept in adding memory to a system. USB flash drives can be used as External Memory Devices (EMDs) to extend system memory and improve performance without opening the box. Your computer is able to access memory from an EMD device much more quickly than it can access data on the hard drive, boosting system performance. When combined with SuperFetch technology, this can help drive impressive improvement in system responsiveness.

EMD technology is both reliable and secure. You can remove an EMD at any time without any loss of data or negative impact to the system; however, if you remove the EMD, your performance returns to the level you experienced without the device. Wear on the USB drive is not an issue when using it as an EMD. A unique algorithm optimizes wear patterns, so that a USB device can run as an EMD for many years, even when heavily used. Finally, data on the EMD is encrypted to help preve
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If im not mistaken that sounds VERY impressive. is that sayingyou can add a normal flash pen drive thingy into your USB and it magicaly becomes ram???. If so I may get this, it sounds very clever I mean I can bung my pen drive in and mt sisters and dads and get an extra 2 and a half gig of ram lol. Or am I totaly wrong a noobish like usual?
 
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If im not mistaken that sounds VERY impressive. is that sayingyou can add a normal flash pen drive thingy into your USB and it magicaly becomes ram???. If so I may get this, it sounds very clever I mean I can bung my pen drive in and mt sisters and dads and get an extra 2 and a half gig of ram lol. Or am I totaly wrong a noobish like usual?
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Ya, thats what there saying. I still dont think it would be as fast as a RAM stick though.
 
Well if it did work I could have 18 gig of ram on my computer atleast :D. Not that I would see any benifit after 2 gigs hehe. But would be good allthe same. Helll I may even need to get a new PSU with that many running.:P
 
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