Anyone getting Vista today ???

[RockyTop1]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

aka $$$$

lol. well we all can't get a cozy job working for Texas Instruments now can we?

[bkfount]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

Just an FYI....

If you are going to use Vista and going to use the "Aero Interface", you'll need a pretty powerful machine.

We loaded it onto a test machine at work that was 1.6 Ghz with 1 GB of RAM and it was pretty slow. Approximately 60% of the RAM was used up with Internet Explorer and Outlook open (the Aero Interface was the hog).

The laptop I have at home with Vista on it is a 2.0 Ghz dual core processor with 2 GB of RAM and Vista runs well on that.

which is why some should hold off until they get a new computer. It's been announced for awhile that it would be a resource hog. I wouldn't probably ever upgrade to it unless it was through buying a new pc. Even so, I have a pc that's a few years old that has better specs than what is required, I just don't want to disprupt the stable xp I got on that pc.

[rudyjuly2]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

I see zero reason to upgrade when XP is working fine for me. Even a respected game designer basically called out MS on pushing Vista when its not necessary.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5665

[fishepa]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

I've been running Vista for a few weeks now (also from our MSDN subscription at work) and I don't see the big deal. I would stick with XP. My laptop at home is a 1.4M with 1 GB of RAM and I can't even run the Aero stuff. Vista is definitely a resource hog.

[roadman]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

Just an FYI....

If you are going to use Vista and going to use the "Aero Interface", you'll need a pretty powerful machine.

We loaded it onto a test machine at work that was 1.6 Ghz with 1 GB of RAM and it was pretty slow. Approximately 60% of the RAM was used up with Internet Explorer and Outlook open (the Aero Interface was the hog).

The laptop I have at home with Vista on it is a 2.0 Ghz dual core processor with 2 GB of RAM and Vista runs well on that.

I should be ok with 2.20 GHz, 960MB of Ram with an AMD 64 x 2 Dual Core Processor 4200+?

I don't plan on installing it right away, but it's a free upgrade from Dell with the desktop I picked out in December.

[mjb2124]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

I should be ok with 2.20 GHz, 960MB of Ram with an AMD 64 x 2 Dual Core Processor 4200+?

I don't plan on installing it right away, but it's a free upgrade from Dell with the desktop I picked out in December.

Hmmm..... I would be a little concerned about the RAM. However, if you do load Vista with the Aero Interface and it is running very slow on that machine, you can always buy another stick of RAM.

[roadman]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

Hmmm..... I would be a little concerned about the RAM. However, if you do load Vista with the Aero Interface and it is running very slow on that machine, you can always buy another stick of RAM.

Thanks for the advice.

[rawdog805]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

Vista with aero runs very good on my notebook, with AMD Turion 64 X2 (1.6ghz), 1gb DDR2 RAM.... no slowdown at all...

[Heelfan71]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

at 30% download after 2 hours. that is with DSL 6.0 speed.

[TheTruth916]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

I am suppose to get a free upgrade with my new computer from best buy....but, I have to go there and have them install it...

my computer is a HP.2.20 GHz, 1 GB RAM , 250 GB HD

[Cebby]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

ha my classmate just told me i can get up to 5 keys for free....

pays to be in the computer science department.

Give me one

[Rodster]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

I purchased (business write-off) the Retail version of Home Premium and I must say it's pretty disappointing as a matter of fact XP out of the gate offered more than what's in Vista. For starters believe the bloatware accusation. I compared my XP configuration and that to Vista. Vista requires 380 mem and a constant 2% CPU utilization on my Rig to run it's system services, compare that to 85 meg system ram on my XP config. My specs are as follows AMD 4000+CPU Clawhammer Core, EPoX 9NPA+ SLi, EP 1 gig of Corsair Ram, 250gb SATA II, nVidia 7900GTO, Audigy 2 Value sound card. It's not the fastest machine around by todays standars but it's not a total slug either. Even with the high MEM Overhead the UI felt responsive so no problems there.

The much heralded Vista Aero look IMO doesn't look nearly as good as what Windowblinds 5.1 offers for $19.99 and doesn't use more than 5 megs of ram to run.

Trying to get a DVD/CD to load or access software is a pain with Vista as the OS doesn't trust anything at first which maybe a good thing regarding malware. I had to click on several screens just to confirm that it was alright to go ahead and to access a driver on my mobo cd.

It's too early to tell but if XP can get a directX10 crack i'd dump Vista in a heartbeat.

[Pared]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

I've been running Vista for a few weeks now (also from our MSDN subscription at work) and I don't see the big deal. I would stick with XP. My laptop at home is a 1.4M with 1 GB of RAM and I can't even run the Aero stuff. Vista is definitely a resource hog.

Vista is a POS. Mac OS wannabe.

I'll stick with XP (and coming from Win2000, I swore I'd never say/write that)...

[dagger55]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

well im about to install it here on my mac with parallels, so ill let ya'll know what i think about it.

[Pared]

Re: Anyone getting Vista today ???

well im about to install it here on my mac with parallels, so ill let ya'll know what i think about it.

Don't waste the parallels software...