Good Windows Vista Review
kal @ Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:32 am
I had Vista RC1 installed for a couple of months. For me, there was really nothing in it that would make me want to switch.
Canadaka @ Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:10 pm
Here is a really good technical review of Vista
http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=2917
I am going to upgrade my main desktop someone this week I think.
My brother bought a ne laptop on the launch day, they had some great deals at best buy. He hardly knows much about computers, but he really likes Vista so far.
Something we played with that is not talked about is the Vista speech recognition, it works pretty well.
I also ordered 5 copies of Vista for one of my clients, and you can get the OEM full version from NCIX.com for $139/homePremium or $179/business. OEM is much cheaper than the retial version and is even cheaper than the retail upgrade. But you don't get the box or support with oem.
Dosenbier @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:25 am
I say stick to XP for the moment. There's tons of security holes, bugs and stuff like that will need to be fixed...
Why move over to Vista so quickly? Yeah, i understand it looks nicer, supposedly better security, and there's way more cool features to play around with (which most are useless or only used a few times) but does it really do anything special or extraordinary for Games and Programs? Not Really....
Someone tell me why it would be better to switch to Vista so quickly...
kal @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:05 am
People like "shiny" and they like new, it makes them feel special lol. That's why people are in such a rush to "upgrade" (yea, I'm not yet convinced it's an upgrade).
As for myself, I just redid all my partitioning on my hard drive, and I'm now running linux as my main OS. I might consider upgrading to Vista sooner or later simply for games, but not as long as Xp works fine. Honestly the EULA has to be one of the main things keeping me away from Vista.
DrCaleb @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:24 am
Canadaka Canadaka:
OEM is much cheaper than the retial version and is even cheaper than the retail upgrade. But you don't get the box or support with oem.
You also can't switch hardware with OEM. You have to buy new licenses if you swap to new mainboard/processor.
I just upgraded last week to an ASUS Crosshair MainBoard, nVidia 8800 GPU. I run XP-64, and it is grand! 21000 3DMark03
Don't even try to run XP with 4G of ram!
Yee haaaa!! But some games will not install, as they detect an 'unknown' version of Windows.
Elvis @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:52 pm
This is of interest to this tread
http://www.viperlair.com/articles/edito ... ta/versus/
kal @ Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:53 pm
Good article Elvis.
I loved the results with Linux, and considering Ubuntu is a pretty high end distro. I would love to see the same tests done with something lighter like Vector Linux. But then of course, one sacrafices ease of use. But hey, you can't have both worlds 
. I was actually a little surprised about the ATI driver stuff in Linux. I've had no problems with the ATI drivers. My biggest headach was getting Wine to run Steam properly, but Half-Life 2 runs quite well.