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joeH:


--- Quote from: bvicarious on January 29, 2008, 02:45:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 29, 2008, 12:16:19 pm ---Vista is (at the moment) a slow over bloated, bug ridden, crash everything, compatibility failure.

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That's weird, I've been running Vista for a year now and I haven't had a single crash or compatibility failure that I would pin down on the OS itself, or encountered any show-stopping bug that I can recall. What have you had problems with running?

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That's the problem. For every 1 person who complains about the OS, there are 10 people you don't hear from, and are perfectly happy with it.  I've run Vista since the first beta was released and have not had one single issue with it.

Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: taz-nz on January 29, 2008, 02:50:43 pm ---You total have no idea do you, your just quoting random websites and Anti-Vista posts from other forums
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No I'm quoting respected sources from respected magazines. But of course you know better and would rather rant and jump up and down like some demented dingo than to actually have a civil conversation.

I'm entitled to my personal opinion of Vista and my opinion of it is that right now it stinks! and needs way more time before it's stable and viable for use in an arcade cabinet.


--- Quote from: taz-nz on January 29, 2008, 02:50:43 pm ---you've been shot down by Aaron on this very forum for these kinds of statement and you still make them.
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Sorry..... No idea what you're talking about there. Perhaps you'd care to illuminate me as to when that occurred and relating to what exactly??


--- Quote from: taz-nz on January 29, 2008, 02:50:43 pm ---Vista is bloated no question about it, but that doesn't make it slow, just big.

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Ermmm Sorry no logic whatsoever in that statement.... It certainly does make it slow. It chews up so much in system resources that everything else can grind to a halt sometimes.


--- Quote from: taz-nz on January 29, 2008, 02:50:43 pm ---Give Vista 2gb of ram and 20gb of HDD space and a modern CPU and it goes like the snot, buying a cheap piece of :censored: PC from wallmart with Vista Basic pre-installed and only 512mb does not count as test of anything.
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Well given that you didn't bother to ask the specifications of the PC in question you make a lot of very dumb ass assumptions there, that it was running on some piece of junk. It wasn't!

Packard Bell
Gigabyte MB
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E4500
2.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB Cache
Windows Vista (R) Home Premium
2GB Memory
360GB Hard Drive

BTW I'd have trouble buying anything from WallMart.... I'm not in the wonderful US of A...


--- Quote from: taz-nz on January 29, 2008, 02:50:43 pm ---There is simply no better operating system to run the current versions of M.A.M.E. under than Vista 64bit, saying anything to the opposite is just putting your head in the sand and hoping that the world will stop spinning.

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So speaks the bastage son of Bill Gates...... You should apply for a job with Microsoft Publicity Department. I'm sure they need more blinkered fools who ignore all of the appalling failures, to sell the product.  :laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

What you don't like is anybody daring to disagree with your opinion that Windows Vista is wonderful and a big bed of roses.  Sorry! Don't agree with you. It has way too many problems right now. Maybee when they release Service Pack 2 or 3 for it I'll be better. But right now IMHO it's not good.

I can't say that I liked XP either when it came out..... It took that to Service Pack 2 before it became really stable, service pack 3 cures a lot of other things that were wrong and speeds it up significantly.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)


bvicarious:

Fozzy, what programs have you experienced conflicts or incompatibilities with? I'd seriously like to know. You also mentioned slowing down to a halt, when does that happen? I know the one thing Vista really really sucks at is copying files, dragging and dropping them and so on.. that's the only thing I can think of that wrecks the OS though. What was your experience like?

My biggest memory hogs right now, btw, are firefox and photoshop, each taking ~270mb of ram. CPU usage is hovering around 11%.

Hoopz:


--- Quote from: bvicarious on January 29, 2008, 09:00:52 pm ---My biggest memory hogs right now, btw, are firefox and photoshop, each taking ~270mb of ram. CPU usage is hovering around 11%.

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I know Firefox has a memory leak right now that hasn't been fixed yet.  Not sure if that applies to the Vista version as well as XP, but its a known problem.

bvicarious:


--- Quote from: HooPZ on January 29, 2008, 09:02:20 pm ---I know Firefox has a memory leak right now that hasn't been fixed yet.  Not sure if that applies to the Vista version as well as XP, but its a known problem.

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Well it certainly doesn't help that I have about 60 tabs open :P

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