paarman97maro

You can buy a laptop at best buy anytime now, and get vista for free when its released

Phate

I dont need more problems then I already get with Windows OS's, i'll stick with XP... hell, I stayed with win98 until about 2 years ago lol. I still miss booting through MS-DOS.

mxracerbrian

one of the main reasons i put vista on a spare drive at home is cause as soon as it comes out, people are going to have issues. ill need to know how to fix em so i dont look like a retard

paarman97maro

Good luck finding them all hahaha..

What version did you get anyway, and from where?

mxracerbrian

yeah im sure i wont find problems. im just trying to get used to it and where everything is.

i have Vista RC2

mxracerbrian

oh another really cool thing about vista that i dont know if you guys knew or not....

your going to be able to use flash sticks as RAM. i know it may not act as the fastest ram in the world but it would help! i think that will be pretty cool. pay 20 bucks and get a 1 gig stick.....hells yeah

paarman97maro

Oh so you got the beta version... Im sure youll find a bunch of bugs. I should dl that... Maybe Ill partition sooner than later.

sman

I've been running RC1 for a little more than a month now, and I can honestly say this is the first version of windows that im actually impressed with. For the most part im all open source, but I may buy this. I have ultimate 64bit, and its a tad laggy on my system, which supprised the hell out of me.
Heres some specs so you can get an idea of how much of a computer vista really takes...
Athlon 64 watercooled @2.83ghz
2gig DDR 400 ram @ 4xx mhz (to lazy to restart and actually see what its at)
Watercooled Nvidia Gforce 6600GT
120gig WD sata drive
80gig WD sata drive
20gig ata drive
hp lightscribe dvd burner
SB audigy platinum
Tripple booting Win XP 64bit, Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and Kubuntu Linux

imported_blade

I hear that if your pc is properly equipped,
vista actually performs better than xp
for games.

as far as me getting vista is concerned, i'll wait awhile.
It's bound to be somewhat buggy and there are bound to be
updates. I'll play it the same way i did with windows xp
(which i'm perfectly happy with at the moment).

sman

It seems to game fine, for the most part,(no diff. in frame rates compared to XP) some games dont like DX10 tho, but all things in time, they will figure it out.

archemedes

I think the issue is that athelon chip, my bro in law and father in law "upgraded" to it, and both are very unhappy as it lags on both systems (running xp) my father in law is having issues with microsoft flight simulator x, and I have the same basic system with a pentium processor and have no trouble, my other brother in law has the older non 64 chip and doesn't have issues with the same games as the one with issues (hence we are blaming the chip) vista is really intended for the home theater market (it's included on some of the new htpc's)

TorqueDog

I was going to make a jab at the AMD chip (I dislike AMD very much), but Arch did it, and much more civil than I would have. Hooray.

TorqueDog

Latest Vista Error:

"Windows has detected flawless operation. An error report is being generated and sent to Microsoft... just so we have something to do... 'Cause y'know, this doesn't often happen to our products."

mxracerbrian

hahaah nice

Phate

"Blue Screen of Tranquility"

Thats their new name for it.