Welcome back! :-) On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah I suppose if that was my experience I would call it a steaming pile as > well. > > My load out was with 2gigs and I ran Eclipse ( with MyEclipse but no > FlexBuilder) + jboss with cf8 cf7 and BD7 or glassfish with all the same > cfml instances. Not sure how bloated FlexBuilder is but I bet that probably > adds a bit of overhead to the mix heh. It is worth mentioning I did tweak > Vista quite a bit up front I never tried to run stuff with the default setup > as there was absolutely too much clutter and crap polluting my workspace. I > did the same with XP so I didn't figure it worth mentioning but if I recall > Aero is rather expensive in the terms of resources. It is also worth > mentioning that this weekend I finally made the switch back to Mac and > couldn't be happier, though I am guess if i plunked that much down on a > Windows Machine I would have a pretty kick ass laptop as well so we'll leave > it at that. > > > Adam Haskell > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > My experience has been vastly different than yours. My laptop was also > > "made for Vista", has more RAM than it needs (4 gigs), and can still > > hardly > > run a full dev environment including Eclipse(CF+FlexBuilder), CF8, and SQL > > Server + various misc programs. XP does this without any problem. > > > > An OS that's so bloated it's not usable is a steaming pile. But that's > > just > > my opinion. > > > > -Cameron > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > I used Vista for quite a few months and it isn't a steaming pile. I > > think > > > it > > > is a useless upgrade and just as happy with XP once I downgraded. Vista > > > was > > > resource hungry and didn't really give me anything in return so thats > > why > > > I > > > switched back to XP. I had no stability issues with Vista, infact since > > my > > > Laptop was made for vista I actually had better integration with Vista. > > > Once > > > I turned off the accept or decline thing it ran much like XP, just used > > > more > > > memory. Since I didn't use most of the hot key integrations with Vista I > > > really didn't notice a difference between Vista and XP. The difference > > is > > > that since XP is a bit lighter on resources it ran a little better under > > > load of all my applications open. So its not a steaming pile but its not > > > much of upgrade to XP either, its really just useless. > > > > > > > > > Adam > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Vista is a steaming pile. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9929405-56.html?tag=nefd.lede > > > > > > > > > > This just does not sound like a resounding endorsement of Vista. > > > > > Manufactures are pre-downgrading Vista machines to XP at the > > factory. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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