Vaj wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> That's what some pundits are predicting because many people will >>> have to buy new Pee Cees to run it, upgraders will pay close to >>> 300 bucks and many are just tired of the Spyware issues and so >>> on which will surely follow Vista. It's said to be a fairly >>> different UI that many hardcore Wintel people may not tolerate. >> >> I held out as long as I could before switching from Win2000 to XP, and >> I'll probably hold out as long as I can before switching to Vista. > > Indeed. I did the same thing at work. Then last january I upped my > entire network with new dual proc Xenons and XP Pro. Now granted I run > two proprietary OS's on top of XP, but it holds steady. > >> After all, it's only when Microsoft starts shipping a product that the >> real beta testing begins, and it usually takes a couple years to weed >> out the most egregious flaws. Besides, this PC is only 3 years old, >> and its 2.8GHz P4 is overkill for what I do. A couple years from now, >> everything will be multiple cores up the wazoo and fully capable of >> running the most bloated of bloatware. > > The nice thing about that is that even a low-end PC will be able to > render video, multi-track music files and 3D raytraced animation quite > quickly compared to today. The average person home power user can even > rely on lower-end hardware for the average jobs. I have a lot of fun with iClone which allows you to create animated 3D programs and I make little music videos with friends in them. There are quite a few iClone videos on YouTube. http://www.reallusion.com/
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