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7/29/2005 2:01:34 PM

id suggest vmware'ing it.

the longhorn pre-beta 4051(i believe) i installed natively, and it ran, but man it was definitely not ready to run even as a test system.

although im probably going to just go ahead and install beta1 native too, just because im a dork.

7/29/2005 2:14:29 PM

is Virtual PC better or worse than VMWare? or do they do the same things.

7/29/2005 2:42:02 PM

Seperate partition.

7/29/2005 2:44:14 PM

lol vmware beta 1?


never.

7/29/2005 2:54:56 PM

I just installed it on a different partion from XP and it Vista is running great on my computer (2GHz 754 Sempron, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9500 pro). I am actually using Vista to post this. I had used a earlier alpha of longhorn and I was not impressed in the slightest, but I am surprisied at the stability of this beta. The only real problem I have had is that driver installation was kind of a pain in the ass, since I had to manually install a lot of them, but pretty much everything works now.

Right now it is really only a prettier XP but if I had to I could use this to do my day to day stuff online.

7/29/2005 8:38:07 PM

that's not the point of an OS, but nice to know that it's useless.

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7/29/2005 8:45:50 PM

How the hell did you come up with Vista being 'useless'?

7/29/2005 8:52:45 PM

beta 1 is useless

7/29/2005 9:02:39 PM

Microsoft has been very good at keeping me employed fixing their shitty OSes.

I only hope they can be kind enough to keep up the trend.

7/29/2005 9:10:00 PM

Quote :

"is Virtual PC better or worse than VMWare? or do they do the same things."

VMware is much better, especially its disk performance. It also has better snapshot management.

7/29/2005 10:03:55 PM

Hmm.

Vista seems to not particularly like my PC.

Boot up takes a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong time and I get no boot screen.

In OS performance is terrible (Without avalon and indigo installed) and all this on a p4 3.4 with 1 gb ram.

7/30/2005 12:12:46 PM