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 Lightspeed (1)  Dec 16, 2006 - 03:06 pm
| » New install on laptop
I installed Vista Ultimate x64 on my Acer Ferrari 4000 laptop (AMD Turion ML-34 @ 2.0 Ghz, 1GB RAM). I work for a Micrsoft Gold Partner so we have early access to Vista. I have been a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineed for 10 years. Here are my first thoughts:
* Vista put my laptop to sleep. It wouldn't wake up. Period. Reboot.
* Hibernation locked it up as well.
* Power management shut down the LCD and it would not turn back on. I could hear sound, but no video
* It eats up over 500MB of RAM during normal operation
* It is noticeably slower that XP x64 was on the same laptop
* VMWare Workstation 5.5 will not run
* Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Beta crashes often (hard to criticize this one, but it didn't do it under XP x64)
* ReadyBoost (using 1GB USB flash drive) didn't seem to speed up anything. It caused my laptop to thrash (heavy HD activity) once and forced a reboot.
* Aero glass has crashed on me once (lost the effect)
This is after only using it for about 5 days. I will probably give it another week, but will likely go back to XP x64.
The only reason I can see for upgrading to Vista is DX10, but games that really need DX10 will be a while in coming. A lot of the "new features" (IE7, Media Player 11, desktop searching, etc) are available for XP. Sure, it looks better, but so what? If that's all I wanted I'd buy a Mac.» Login to reply to this |
Dougie D. (98) Dec 10, 2006 - 08:20 am
| Ok, so I got my new Mac the other day and I have been messing around and checking things out with all of the widgets and stuff. I am very impressed with OS X.
I will say this though.
Vista is basically a blatant rip-off of OS X with all of the little graphical effects and whatnot from just looking at those screen shots. If all of the versions of the OS are on the same DvD, it won't be long for somebody to have a big chance to crack it open and spill out all of the goodies.» Login to reply to this |
lortsie (71) Dec 07, 2006 - 02:32 pm
| Now if I could just get NFS:Carbon to work on mine, I'd be 100% happy :)
For the most part, I love Vista. I'm addicted to gadgets :)
*and before you flame, the compatibility mode setting and renaming/moving the MOVIES folder doesn't fix it.» Login to reply to this |
xpax (24) Dec 07, 2006 - 12:07 pm
| I will hold back on upgrading until Microsoft fixes what they've done to OpenGL on Vista. I understand they want to promote DX, but breaking OpenGL is hardly essential to that goal.
It's a shame too, because I feel that otherwise Vista is very slick.» Login to reply to this |
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