> -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:16 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: [Computer] Beat Windows Vista Business Edition > > 5 sec review. Vista sucks for what I want a computer for. I know I > only gave it 24 hours and that wasn't a heck of a lot of time, but it > just seems so stifling to me. I wasn't happy about the DirectSound > thing, I wasn't happy about my pc registering 3.6 out of 10 points for > a "vista experience". It didn't feel like I could "tinker" with it as > much as I could with XP, or for that matter, 2000.
Well - I can't help you with the sound thing. I'm actually loving Vista's enhanced audio management. But your score - well, buck up - it's not a 10 point scale. A five or so damn good. My system (Dual Opteron's, gForce 7900, four gig of Dual-channel RAM, fast disks) comes up as a "5.1". Note also that the "main" number is actually just the lowest score the five elements. Before I added RAM (and was sharing 2 Gig between the two procs) my memory rating was a 3.4 - so that's what the system score was. Don't pay the score much attention. It's a simple way for those that don't know to KNOW that a particular piece of software will run on their machines - it's not a "machine score" - it's an indication of the WORST thing in the your system. It's not really useful for anything other than that. I felt a lot like you when I moved completely. It seemed... cluttered I guess. I still find annoyances but overall I've not found anything that I can't do anymore. Some of the "tinker" stuff is more hidden, but everything I've needed is still there. Sometimes it takes a while to find it (like where the Start Menu is stored on the file system, took me a while to find that) but it's there. It took me about a week, maybe more, to really "click" with it - now you'll have to pull it from my corpse. ;^) That being said I still use XP extensively so it's not like I went cold turkey. > If you want to use ms approved programs vista may be the bee's knees, > but I just felt like I was suddenly giving up too much of my freedom > with that platform. >From my experience that's the biggest issue. People are pretty happy with >Vista but not so happy with the speed of third parties in releasing Vista >compatible/optimized software. It's almost like they were surprised! It's was in public beta for what, a year? There's no excuse for some of this. > Thank the gods of kobol for PING (partImage is not ghost). Saved my > partition to a network drive and sucessfully restored it 24 short > hours later :) Whatever gets your work done. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:231319 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
