Do NOT buy/install Windows Vista!

It won't run too bad.

I am going to be running it on the same RAM and a 3400+ with a Geforce 6200 on PCI X16...

Go for it, upgrade later if you feel the need.
 
Robin ///////
Just a quick question...

My Computer Specs....

AMD 64 3200
ATi Radeon X550 256MB
1GB Corsair Value Select Ram

Ok... so how well is Vista Aero going to run on my PC?? Im thinking of Home Premium

Robin
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I have it installed on an older computer (Pentium 4 @ 3.2GHz, 1.5GB DDR PC3200, ATi Radeon 9600XT) and it runs pretty well.

I had it installed on an Athlon 2600+, 1GB DDR PC3200 and an nVidia FX5200. It too ran very acceptably.
 
I asked my father, a long time Windows user "Are you gonna upgrade to Vista?" He first checked to make sure I wasn't mentally unstable, and then proceeded to say "Forget Windows, I'm moving to Linux."

Oh yeah, and **** Vista's implementation of DRM.
 
HACKr
I asked my father, a long time Windows user "Are you gonna upgrade to Vista?" He first checked to make sure I wasn't mentally unstable, and then proceeded to say "Forget Windows, I'm moving to Linux."

Oh yeah, and **** Vista's implementation of DRM.
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Right.. And anyone who has been using a "PC" for the last five years is similarly a '"long time Windows user". Your father has probably heard all of the bad, most of which is probably untrue, and none of the good.

Here's a good article for those of you who don't know much about the OS:
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=vista&page=1&cookie_test=1
 
No, actually, he's been a Windows user since 3.1. And yeah, I'm not going to buy from a company who stole almost all of their new "Ideas" from Apple. Don't ****ing try to say that's not true. Mac OSX was being developed in 1999, and it had all of it's unique features before Vista was Longhorn.
 
As much as I dislike M$, it's hard to deny their marketing deployment of software in an effort to maximize profits. Apple always had a superior product, IMO, but M$ had a better market strategy.
 
HACKr
Don't ****ing try to say that's not true. Mac OSX was being developed in 1999, and it had all of it's unique features before Vista was Longhorn.
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It's not true. Whoops.

2 years after 'Longhorns' announcement, OS X came out. Apple it never announces what features their products will or will not have until the very latest they can, and because of this, you have absolutely no ground to say Windows stole certain features and that OS X did not.

The largest software manufacture in the world is, despite what you all believe, capable of coming up with their own software.
 
HACKr
No, actually, he's been a Windows user since 3.1. And yeah, I'm not going to buy from a company who stole almost all of their new "Ideas" from Apple. Don't ****ing try to say that's not true. Mac OSX was being developed in 1999, and it had all of it's unique features before Vista was Longhorn.
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And all of it came from Xerox. GUI, mouse, the whole works.
 
So, its a problem when Vista comes packages with an OS X like desktop environment, but its just fine to use XP with all of the OS X look-a-like addons.

****ed if you do...
 
Burnout
It's not true. Whoops.

2 years after 'Longhorns' announcement, OS X came out. Apple it never announces what features their products will or will not have until the very latest they can, and because of this, you have absolutely no ground to say Windows stole certain features and that OS X did not.

The largest software manufacture in the world is, despite what you all believe, capable of coming up with their own software.
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...And the development of Vista was inspired by OSX.
 
Wikipedia
Mac OS X is a Unix-like operating system built on technology that had been developed at NeXT through the second half of the 1980s and up until Apple purchased the company in early 1997.

The operating system was first released in 1999 as Mac OS X Server 1.0, with a desktop-oriented version (Mac OS X v10.0) following in March 2001.
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Wikipedia
Microsoft started work on their plans for "Longhorn" in May 2001, prior to the release of Windows XP
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Yeah, there you go.
 
I'm not trying to jump on anyone's side here, but I think Burnout is trying to point out that Vista's so-called "copied" features weren't released with Mac OS 10.0 in 2001.

And by "OS X," I think he specifically meant Tiger (10.4).
 
Well, looking over my posts, I'm sorry guys. I guess I'm a zealot. Never liked Windows anyway. I feel so passionate about defending Mac OS, because I have always seen it as superior, but I guess I'm good at making a fool of myself and gaining enemies as well. Oh well.







I'm still right.
 
dougiemeats
I'm not trying to jump on anyone's side here, but I think Burnout is trying to point out that Vista's so-called "copied" features weren't released with Mac OS 10.0 in 2001.

And by "OS X," I think he specifically meant Tiger (10.4).
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I should've clarified. Appreciate it. 👍

KTXHBYE
 
HACKr
I'm still right.
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And it's still just an OS. Outside of us in this thread, noone really cares.

Beryl on whatever Linux has the most bling. OSX wins on usability. Vista is the most popular (all based on what I've read). Doesn't really matter, most people will go with what they get on their new PC. Sadly that's Vista.

Yours, slightly depressed by the whole thing...
 
I'm looking over the report that was linked earlier in the thread, and given everything I'm reading, it sounds like Vista is going to be nothing but a pain once the formats actually catch up to the OS that's going to be supporting them :scared: I'm thinking of just switching to a Linux distro as an "upgrade" to XP when the time comes. Probably going to be coming soon, since all previous versions of Windows are now "unsupported" by Microsoft. They've already quit supporting Windows XP SP1 :ill: Link
 
Kelvari
I'm thinking of just switching to a Linux distro as an "upgrade" to XP when the time comes. Probably going to be coming soon, since all previous versions of Windows are now "unsupported" by Microsoft. They've already quit supporting Windows XP SP1 :ill: Link
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Go for it. :)

However, Microsoft will be supporting Windows XP SP2 until April 2009. But by that time, it will only be a few more months until Windows 7 is available.
 
Vista didn't seem too far off schedule though. I'd rather have delays and 1 or 2 service packs instead of no delays, which it's not like I get hot off the lines stuff like that anyways, and have a million security updates all the time.


I have my memory. Muchos fast. I will be acquiring Vista Ultimate hopefully this weekend.
 
Burnout
Apple it never announces what features their products will or will not have until the very latest they can, and because of this, you have absolutely no ground to say Windows stole certain features and that OS X did not.
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Microsoft got money, alot of it. And money got a certain abilty to find out things, that should be secret. You can be damn sure that M$ had their eyes on what Apple was doing during the development.

Anyways, I use Linux and I will for a loooong time.
It's faster, more reliable and it looks better than Windows in my opinion.
 
I was gonna say the same thing. Any time you see "shared" with video RAM, you should run away. Then again, that's part of what makes a low-cost machine low-cost.
 
GMA950, while in noways comprable to dedicated solution, is not bad at all for integrated video. As long as you don't plan on doing anything too xxcore it'll be fine.
 
I'm not using the laptop for gaming , just universty work( programing ,desgin ....ect) , I've got the Xbox 360 for gaming and a PS3 is on the list
 

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