There wasn't any significant reason to leave Windows 2000 Pro for XP at the time. In fact the slower hardware of the time caused many to turn off new XP features effectively making it Windows 2000 with a new color scheme.
One thing nobody's mentioned that I like about Vista, the volume mixer. Instead of one volume for everything, you can set the volume for each application separately, so if one thing is too loud while another is too quiet, you can fix that. Yeah this alone isn't much, but it adds to the pot. Also like the snipping tool. I'm not saying anyone should upgrade existing hardware to Vista, just that if you happen to be buying new hardware, and you're buying 2+ GB of RAM and dual core CPUs, might as well go for Vista*. Sooner or later (unless you are very protected from users in the backoffice) you're going to have to help somebody with a Vista-specific issue. Sure, postpone the change for the organization if you must, but get your feet wet now before you're under the gun. Carl From: Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed Now let me understand this. I should spend the money to acquire a new FASTER computer so that I can run Vista which runs at the very SAME speed that an older slower computer did running XP, but Vista really has little if any to offer in the way of benefits. Now I get it!!!!! I'm loving this thread, because so far I don't hear any good reasons to upgrade to Vista. I've been in IT for nearly 44 years. During that time I've seen a lot of changes, and in most cases more productivity for smaller amounts of financial investment. But I just have a real problem with spending MORE to get virtually nothing for my investment......other than I can tell people that I have VISTA!!! I want to thank everyone for reaffirming the decision I had already made for my organization. Murray _____ From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why XP is doomed I have 2.2 GHZ Centrino Duo laptop with 2GB of RAM and Vista works as fast as my previous XP Machine which was a 1.8GHX Centrino Duo and 2GB RAM. So your Pentium D 3 Ghz should be fine and dandy with or without the 4gb obviously 4gb would be better but then that goes for xp too. Graeme On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "John Hornbuckle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/12/2008 03:53:29 PM: > Well, it's moot that a crappy system being sold by a vendor is good > enough to run XP. It's also good enough to run Windows for > Workgroups and DOS-but that's not the point. > > Yes, Vista has higher hardware requirements. Just like XP has higher > requirements than Win9x had, and just like Win9x had higher > requirements than Win3x had. Every OS that comes out is likely to > have higher requirements than the OS before it. > > But honestly, Vista's hardware requirements aren't crazy high. As I > mentioned before, I'm running it at home on a Pentium D processor- > which is a very modest CPU by today's standards. Vista works just > fine with it. The biggest issue with the hardware vendors, as seen > in the ZDNet piece, is the crapware installed at the factory. The > author of the article got the Sony laptop working perfectly with > Vista without changing the hardware at all. Really ... I have a Pentium D, 3GHz, 2M RAM. You think if I bumped the RAM to 4G that Vista would be OK with it? I mostly use this PC for photoediting (Photoshop CS3), and video editing (which in my case is converting PAL to NTSC, or making a DVD out of AVI files, using Nero 7). Feel free to reply offlist .... > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 3:35 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Why XP is doomed > > > Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2008 03:58:17 AM: > > > If a vendor sells an underpowered machine, then perhaps the vendor > > should take some blame. > > I believe the point is that the hardware is not underpowered for Xp, > but is underpowered for Vista. Especially if the vendor isn't (or > can't ... ) offer XP on that hardware. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
