Anyone use Windows Vista?

[unicycleboy]

Just wondering if anyone uses the new version of windows?

Trev

[habbywall]

i use mac os x 10.4.4
it rocks

[maestro8]

Just wondering if anyone uses the new version of windows?
My house is old... I'm still using single-pane, double-hung windows running on rusty old pulleys.

[unicycleboy]

Well just installed it anyway and its pretty good.

Trev

[maxisback]

lmao, noob

[unicycleboy]

what?

[Victory]

Well just installed it anyway and its pretty good.

Trev

What kind of setup are you running? I heard the new aero graphics is quite the system hog...
Post some screeny's I'd love to see how different it is from xp.

btw - do you have an offical beta or one aquired by other means... ;)

[maxisback]

I repeat : lmao noob

[unicycleboy]

i will do but im going to bed now, i will get full copy when it comes out

[john_childs]

What kind of setup are you running? I heard the new aero graphics is quite the system hog...
Post some screeny's I'd love to see how different it is from xp.
It has a classic mode which is basically the same screen style graphics as XP. Then there is the fancy 3D enhancements where every window is a 3D element that can be made to tilt and do 3D transitions and stuff like that. It's the new 3D stuff that is the system hog, but you can use the old style window graphics and avoid the 3D overhead. The 3D stuff makes heavy use of the GPU and the graphics memory for textures (the textures are your windows and UI).

Here's a blog that asks "Will My Applications Work on Windows Vista? (http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2006/01/07/295.aspx)".

I'm not running Vista and I'm not interested in running a beta OS. Playing with a beta OS takes time. You have to wipe the partition when you want to uninstall (you can't install new versions over the beta versions). You can't really do real work on it since you can't trust it and you'll need to wipe the partition anyways when it's time to uninstall it.

[evil-nick]

I prolly won't go to Vista until I build a new computer for gaming, which likely won't be until I'm done school forever (many years from now). Assuming that the EFI thing gets resolved, I'll likely buy a Mac next, but not until it can boot XP and Linux as well as OSX. OSX is pretty and cool, Linux has the applications I actually use daily, and XP has a couple apps I need on occasion...

Except that I'm still convinced that the Mac/Intel route may have been a bad choice with the awesomeness that is AMD x86-64.

[abbabibble]

Mac Power!

[maxisback]

why not run on linux ? way more stable then win..I had a root of a linux that was over 100days long

[john_childs]

I prolly won't go to Vista until I build a new computer for gaming, which likely won't be until I'm done school forever (many years from now). Assuming that the EFI thing gets resolved, I'll likely buy a Mac next, but not until it can boot XP and Linux as well as OSX. OSX is pretty and cool, Linux has the applications I actually use daily, and XP has a couple apps I need on occasion...
Windows Vista is supposed to have support for EFI based computers. So you should be able to dual boot Mac OS X and Windows Vista once Vista is released. I don't think it will ever work with XP unless someone manages to create a low level hack that allows XP to run on an EFI system.

[Daniel.Foster]

ooo... tech talk... my main lang

[maestro8]

lmao, noob
what?
Let me translate... *pulls out AOL dictionary* ...ah, yes!

maxisback is using an infantile form of expression to convey the fact that he finds your query to be both sophomoric and laughable.

Unfortunately, he hasn't developed the language with which to express the reasons why he has made such a finding. We hope that at some point in the future he will be able to articulate his point of view, as his "point and laugh" style of posting is quite vague and often unflattering.

[johnfoss]

Assuming that the EFI thing gets resolved, I'll likely buy a Mac next, but not until it can boot XP and Linux as well as OSX.
The new iMacs and PowerBooks have the Intel processors. It is likely that future machines (if not these) will be able to dual-boot Windows, Mac and/or even Linux. But according to Apple, they won't be making anything to encourage this. It will have to come from third parties. At least based on current statements.

Except that I'm still convinced that the Mac/Intel route may have been a bad choice with the awesomeness that is AMD x86-64.
The choice to go with Intel was a long-term as well as short-term one. Intel has the better technology for low-power laptop chips, which is perhaps what Apple needed the most, at least to start. We'll see where it all goes.

[unicycleboy]

Well its holding out alright. its a bit faster then xp. Theres a few things which are annoying like my media card reader doesnt have right drivers and my camera doesnt either so when i want to upload pictures ill have to go back to xp, although theres a thing at the start which maybe allows me to start in xp im not sure.]


Trev