I am dumping vista after I was just playing company of heroes and the system was using 1.8G of ram vs <= 1G in XP. Vista fails horribly. Makes me wanna burn down redmond.
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:27:14PM -0400, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > I understand what you are saying. However, I just built a new machine and I > could have easily put Vista on there...but yet, I don't see a compelling > reason to do so. Perhaps there are some changes "underneath the hood" but > if they're not buying me anything...tangible... > > Bobby Heid wrote: >> I was not the one that suggested making Vista look like XP. I personally >> like the Aero interface also. :). >> >> I am not one of those that is telling everyone to go out and buy Vista to >> replace XP (not saying that you are either). I agree with what Tim (I >> think >> it was Tim) said in that people that are getting new machines should get >> Vista and not XP. I just think that Vista is superior to XP on many >> fronts. >> Sure, I think that based upon 3rd party drivers not being ready that MS >> probably should have held off a bit longer. I hate the slow file >> transfers >> (which as someone pointed out, should be corrected in SP1). >> >> I am not out to try and change any one's mind on this list, we are all big >> people that can make up our own minds. I just see so many people bashing >> Vista that I wanted to let others know that there are many of us out here >> that like Vista. It's kind of like going to the forums to look up an >> issue >> with some hardware/software, you will mostly find negative stuff. That is >> because the people that are not having issues are not posting or reading >> the >> forums, only those with issues. >> >> Bobby >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson >> Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:59 PM >> To: The Hardware List >> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [H] A note to Microsoft... >> >> At 11:11 10-07-2007, Bobby Heid typed: >> >>> I disagree with you that it is only a GUI change. At a lower level, it >>> is >>> much different than XP. Most of which most people will ever know about >>> or >>> see. >>> >> >> I've beta tested many a MSFT app & know that it's more than a GUI change >> but what I was referring to was the 2nd line you typed. If I change Vista >> to look & act like XP then what's the use in buying Vista? Sure it helps >> those that are inclined to shoot themselves but many of us are behind a >> router & use common sense that ain't so common. ;-) >> >> >> ---------------+-------------- >> I'm a geek that loves to tweak. >> >> >> >> -- Bryan G. Seitz
