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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Vista isn't even that bad. The release schedule sucked, in that there weren't a lot of drivers available right away... and people were trying to cram it onto machines that were 6 years old and shouldn't have even been trying to run XP nevermind Vista...
64 bit Vista SP1 on a dual-core machine with 2GB of ram (minimum) = very stable, very fast and quite nice. This day and age, that kind of computer would cost you about $700. If you can't afford a $700 computer, then you shouldn't be trying to run all the newest operating systems anyway.
btw... I'm a MAC lover.  |
i disagree. when launched vista was awful. at the time, i was in IT at a college and we put it on all our personal machines so that we would all be familiar with it as students started encountering it.
we had so many problems. we were a dell school. yet we would have the same model laptop or desktop and different people would have different issues. some people couldnt get sounds to work, others couldnt print. it was a mess. most people gave up pretty quick. i made it from nov. 06 till july 07. i was the last one to downgrade back to XP.
i don't know if they just needed another beta test or what, but that software that came out was flawed. the whole experience soured me on vista. i took it off new computers i bought. i only just now got around to trying it out at home. put it on a machine a week or two ago.
and regarding putting it on outdated machines, i agree. but i could run XP on a 300mhz machine with 128 or ram. then all of a sudden you need a 2ghz processor, 2 gigs of ram and a seperate video card just to run an OS? seemed like quite the jump.