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AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 13, 2008, 04:45:15 pm ---
I don't know what you are smoking Atom when you made that post, but it will kill your brain cells if you continue.
Vista is pure pants. I have Home Premium on my Asus F3sc and it ran like a dog. Igot real tired of waitng 20 minues to copy a 5 gb file, low framerates on CSS and crashes running Photoshop. I won't go into the memory management mess and the constant admin prompts when I install software.
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Let me take a wild guess and say that you were running vista well before service pack 1 came out, or perhaps your computer has less then a gig of ram. I've seen a few speed tests comparing various things with XP and Vista (with SP1 and recent drivers) on decent computers and they all show both OS's now run about equal (XP runs a little bit faster in some tests, Vista runs a little bit faster in others, but overall about the same). Even recent tests of video game FPS show that games in Vista run at the same FPS as games in XP.
Vista gained a whole lot of hatred toward itself in it's first year (with good reason), but it's not longer the blight it once was.
And yes, the first thing anyone should do is disable those constant admin prompts. Those bugged me like crazy as well, but were easy enough to disable.
Paul Olson:
I am using 64 bit, so I think Vista is becoming a better choice. I have found it to be harder to find drivers for xp64. Getting rid of all the crap that is preinstalled on new laptops increases performance way more than the operating system. My laptop was painfully slow until I reformatted it.
When looking at laptops right now, it is easy to tell if the os is 32bit or 64 bit. 32 bit can't handle more than 3 gb of ram, so the manufacturers are only offering 3. If it comes with 4gb, it is most likely 64 bit.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on December 13, 2008, 06:52:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 13, 2008, 04:45:15 pm ---
I don't know what you are smoking Atom when you made that post, but it will kill your brain cells if you continue.
Vista is pure pants. I have Home Premium on my Asus F3sc and it ran like a dog. Igot real tired of waitng 20 minues to copy a 5 gb file, low framerates on CSS and crashes running Photoshop. I won't go into the memory management mess and the constant admin prompts when I install software.
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Let me take a wild guess and say that you were running vista well before service pack 1 came out, or perhaps your computer has less then a gig of ram. I've seen a few speed tests comparing various things with XP and Vista (with SP1 and recent drivers) on decent computers and they all show both OS's now run about equal (XP runs a little bit faster in some tests, Vista runs a little bit faster in others, but overall about the same). Even recent tests of video game FPS show that games in Vista run at the same FPS as games in XP.
Vista gained a whole lot of hatred toward itself in it's first year (with good reason), but it's not longer the blight it once was.
And yes, the first thing anyone should do is disable those constant admin prompts. Those bugged me like crazy as well, but were easy enough to disable.
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No I had SP1 and 4gb of RAM - it still sucked.
XP Doesn't really see the 4gb but I don't really care.
If you tell yourself it isn't a blight enough times - you will come to believe it. :laugh2:
AtomSmasher:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 13, 2008, 08:26:19 pm ---No I had SP1 and 4gb of RAM - it still sucked.
XP Doesn't really see the 4gb but I don't really care.
If you tell yourself it isn't a blight enough times - you will come to believe it. :laugh2:
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I actually currently use XP and only used Vista for a few months shortly after it came out, and it seemed just as fast to me, but all of the speed comparisons were saying it was slower. The reason I think it's now essentially equal is because every single recent comparison I've seen between Vista and XP say thats it's the same, and they were coming from the same places that used to say its slower. But then maybe Microsoft paid them all off :P
If you keep telling yourself it still sucks then you will come to believe it ;D
And for the record, I'd like now to upgrade to Vista, but the version I had was pirated and turned off by Microsoft, and I have no problem waiting a year for the next OS (which is essentially Vista 1.5)
daywane:
My father in law bought vista basic
he tried i for 1 week and gave it to me.
I just gave it away last night.
He should have no problems with installing it.
I built all 3 PC's and all 3 are the same.
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