it broke activation

4/19/2008 12:06:19 AM

you lose for using vista.

4/19/2008 12:06:43 AM

OMG BUY A LICENSE

[Edited on April 19, 2008 at 12:07 AM. Reason : you lose for using vista.]

4/19/2008 12:07:01 AM

actually vista runs very well on my PC for the little i use it for, i use my mac for most stuff

but it's very responsive and fast... otherwise i'd be using XP for sure.

i don't see why everyone hates it so much.

it's also a hell of a lot easier to manage in an enterprise environment (along with server 2008) - if for nothing else, i love it for this reason alone, makes my job much easier

4/19/2008 12:07:42 AM

Quote :

"DRIVERS NOT FOUND"

4/19/2008 12:08:34 AM

I think I'm about to get a laptop that runs Vista

does it suck that bad?

4/19/2008 12:08:58 AM

it actually found all my drivers without me intervening whatsoever

that includes SATA RAID cards, gigE, firewire, etc.

it's pretty impressive.

^no, i think people hate it just because it's microsoft... or maybe my experience with vista does not parallel that of the majority of vista users... because i have had absolutely no problem with it whatsoever, in fact i like it a lot better than XP. i admit, running it with 1GB of ram is painful... but 2GB ddr and at least an athlon 64 and you're golden.

4/19/2008 12:09:36 AM

its getting better, but its still obnoxious.
better off using XP till its actually out dated.




i just know alot of the drivers for some of my music equipment/software shit does NOT work with vista and it was a pain in the ass. If you get a laptop with vista 9 times out of 10 if something isn't compatable yet your hardware will not have drivers for XP and you can NOT downgrade

[Edited on April 19, 2008 at 12:10 AM. Reason : no YOU must enter a reason for editing this message.]

4/19/2008 12:09:43 AM

I'm using it right now on this laptop

I mean, I don't hate it too bad but some networking stuff is just in weird ass places that make no sense and overall its a bit slower than it really should be. and of course there's the driver on some things... but overall i mean it works. xp is just faster in my experience

4/19/2008 12:10:51 AM

I went from windows 95 to windows xp, I plan on sticking with xp for just as long.

4/19/2008 12:11:00 AM

ahhh yeah that was the thing i was worried about

i stuck it on my windows DAW box as well... the manufacturers of all my gear actually had vista drivers available for everything (firewire i/o, midi keyboard, some hardware VST effects boxes, etc.)

of course, that's irrelevant, because i use a mac for the vast majority of my studio work

logic pro ftw

4/19/2008 12:12:52 AM

lets play some music [no homo]

[Edited on April 19, 2008 at 12:15 AM. Reason : ps do you have a copy i can borrow? i just have garage band but it works great just not thorough]

4/19/2008 12:14:47 AM

pm sent, b.

4/19/2008 12:20:23 AM

pm sent, g

4/19/2008 12:24:35 AM

I have had no problems at all with Vista. I love it.

4/19/2008 12:34:24 AM

My gripe with Vista is it's bloated nature. For everyday usage it's dandy, looks great, and it stays pretty stable. But I'm trying to encode video, render Lightwave files and keep the business running in PS, Lightroom and Dreamweaver. CS3 chews up them resources like candy and Vista doesn't like sharing. xp64 for me for the foreseeable future. It Adobe would get off their high horse and compile to anything Unix I'd switch the next morning...

4/19/2008 12:44:07 AM

xp x64 is even worse than vista believe me, i have to support it

either go xp x86 or vista x64

4/19/2008 12:44:56 AM

People are saying the same thing about Vista that the 2000 people were saying about XP... some things never change.

I installed Vista for the first time recently and I really don't see what all the hate is about. Drivers for new OSs are usually kinda flaky.

Now, I'll grant that 99% of the new cool stuff in Vista is stuff I could already do on my powermac; but that doesn't mean I don't love doing it on my desktop too.

4/19/2008 2:12:21 AM

i thought the "longhorn" file system was the impetus behind the entire vista project

then boom plain ol ntfs

4/19/2008 2:16:53 AM

i actually didnt mind vista all that much.. except that i couldnt my 2gb usb stick or my usb external hd... and it actually had the balls to tell me what i could and couldn't do with MY files... and thus xp pro returned

4/19/2008 3:18:16 AM

yeah thats the main reason im avoiding it

4/19/2008 3:37:25 AM

Isn't vista such a memory whore, so when running large ram intensive files it's pretty slow.

4/19/2008 7:51:05 AM

I just got vista ultimate on my new laptop. and i love it. much better than xp. it takes time to figure out, but once you do, you'll love it. runs great too, i haven't had any problems so far. though 2 gb of ram is the minimum you would want. i have 4 gb, and vista addresses 3.5 gb, so i'm good

^ I run AutoCAD Civil 3D on vista, and it's still fast as hell

[Edited on April 19, 2008 at 11:31 AM. Reason : .]

4/19/2008 11:30:03 AM

^^ naw, kind of a misconception... it hogs the crap out of memory but it has a system in place that is supposed to allocate memory whenever it's needed, though i don't understand why they idle it so high... vista was actually very quick on my mbp for the most part

4/19/2008 12:47:01 PM

you installed sp1 on your mbp? i've not booted into vista in a while, and i wondered bout it.

4/19/2008 12:50:34 PM

I've seen Vista "lock up" while searching for drivers over and over again. I've seen Vista just fuck up and not respond a few too many times.

A computer running a linux kernel will not use less than about 80% of the RAM during normal operation. It's good when an OS uses RAM for caching that can be instantly thrown out when it doesn't need it. What good is RAM if you don't use it?

4/19/2008 12:57:03 PM

actually never made it to sp1, couldnt stand it long enough... that and it wouldnt show up in windows update, i'm pretty sure bc of driver incompatibilities

4/19/2008 12:57:54 PM