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Offline Gunslinger

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made the plunge to vista
« on: August 16, 2008, 04:00:03 PM »
GRRRRRR I HATE VISTA

but,  I needed a laptop and my computer went tits up so I figured it was the time to buy.  I got the gateway gamer rig from best buy and the only saving grace for this POS OS is the fact that the rig itself has 4G of ram.  got it onsale too!

I'm currently transfering all my files and movies from my other rig to an external HD.  The good part is when I get down time at work I can use this thing to study for my next rank and I'm finally getting off my bellybutton and taking some online classes this semester.
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Offline Hangtime

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2008, 04:38:27 PM »
Good luck with that.. both Vista and the courses.

... and thanks again for doin what yer doin.

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Offline sluggish

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2008, 04:41:50 PM »
Imagine what a hot rod that thing would be if you loaded XP on it...
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Offline Gunslinger

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2008, 09:22:44 PM »
Quote from: sluggish on August 16, 2008, 04:41:50 PM
Imagine what a hot rod that thing would be if you loaded XP on it...
too bad if you downgrade it likes to autorestart for some reason.  I tried in on my wifes dell and it was a disaster.  I just hate how condisending this OS is:  "Are you sure you want to do XXXXX?"  hell yea i'm sure if not I wouldn't have clicked it.  MS created this for retards, i'm convinced.
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Offline Yossarian

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2008, 09:29:12 PM »
well, as hangtime said, good luck!

I just got a MacBook, and IMO it's excellent.  Sadly it doesn't have much of a graphics card on it...

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Offline Motherland

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2008, 09:44:37 PM »
LOL Mac :rofl
You have fun dual booting XP or Vista to play games?
« Last Edit: August 16, 2008, 10:12:44 PM by Motherland »
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Offline Anaxogoras

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2008, 09:58:05 PM »
Bubi, I wouldn't knock macs too much when MS is trying to ram Vista up everyone's  :huh :rofl.  My wife has a macbook and it is a sleek, stable machine.  I swear it boots up in <30 seconds.
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Offline Motherland

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2008, 10:12:18 PM »
My XP machine boots extremely fast too :)
Vista is a resource hog and I'll be using XP as long as I possibly can but at least when I'm finally forced to switch to a new MS OS I'll be able to play Aces High on it. :aok
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Offline Mr No Name

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2008, 02:54:39 AM »
Behind every Vista loaded machine is a Linux user waiting to be born!
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Offline Vulcan

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2008, 03:59:30 AM »
My new NEC came with Vista, spent two weeks giving it ago before going back to XP. I did a clean install - so no issues here :)
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Offline Gunslinger

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2008, 10:03:04 AM »
I do have to say the "windows media center" part of it is pretty cool when used with my xbox360
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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2008, 10:46:49 AM »
if only more software vendors ported things to linux, esp games.   /sigh
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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2008, 11:09:18 AM »
If only Linux suppliers would get together and decide on one fraking API for 3D, sound, and input devices it might happen,  Of course, a standard installer would be nice as well.  A standard UI as well.

I could on and on.  Linux is its own worst enemy, as UNIX has always been.  Technically, the Linux/UNIX OS's are far better than anything Microsoft has shipped, but it has never tried to be anything other than a niche product best used for server use.  The occasional turnkey graphics workstation is really the only application success UNIX has ever had and that has waned.
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Offline AKIron

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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2008, 11:11:59 AM »
I think Vista is more secure (though I hate it's security) and the memory model seems to be less leaky than XP. There is a performance penalty but on a fairly new machine it's not very noticeable.
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Re: made the plunge to vista
« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2008, 11:20:41 AM »
Wife bought a Dell laptop from Walmart about a month ago with Xp on it...ya can still find em
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