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Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Silent Vista-loving majority?
NVIDIA Failure
by Kingdaddy2000 - 5/8/08 6:01 AM In reply to: Not been particularly silent and not loving it by fbbbbI agree with your comments about NVIDIA. I bought an HP Laptop last year that lasted only 6 months before the NVIDIA card failed, and I had to return the laptop to HP because it is integrated into the motherboard. CompUSA did not send it back in a timely manner and ended up simply having to replace my laptop. However, I have noticed that if I have a large number of IE windows open (I often multi-task and keep many different IE windows open to different pages), all of a suddent IE will turn "black" and start flickering and flashing until it fails. I think this is due to the NVIDIA GeForce processor. I have the HP Pavilion dv6675us Laptop, with the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS processor with 128MB dedicated memory, and 4GB RAM.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem with NVIDIA?
NVIDIA needs to get its act together
by mmiller60 - 5/8/08 6:17 PM In reply to: NVIDIA Failure by Kingdaddy2000Well it sounds like NVIDIA still has not gotten its act together. I bought a Toshiba 5105 - s501 laptop with a Nvidia graphics N card in it that is currently on its way out. This computer was and still is an awesome computer except for the fact that I have read horror stories about this computer and its video card. I actually consider myself a lucky one since i have had this computer for 6 years, i have read forums saying that people have only gotten 2 years or less out of it. In fact my friend and I bought the exact same laptop at the same time and his died about a year and a half later. I wish NVIDIA would catch a clue they have not for the past 6 years it seems.
Too slow and resource-hungry
by buberfan - 5/8/08 12:14 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarIt may be Ok if you are using expensive state-of-the-art hardware, but for ordinary mortals it is soooo slow. I've gone back to XP out of frustration.
slow slow
by lizardo_manson - 5/8/08 5:57 AM In reply to: Too slow and resource-hungry by buberfanyeah these guys think that we need to buy a computer every time they told so, well sir, NO. Why to waste or spent a lot of money when my system is doing 100% good job in everything.
I like it
by skipper120542 - 5/8/08 12:18 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarSome problems getting used to it. Some problems making my printer work but that is because the printer manufacturer doesn't list a compatible download so I had to download 4 different drivers. I think it is a big, big improvement over past os's. Do wish the other folks that make computer equipment would get on board tho.
skip mcquaid
Loving it since Jan 2007
by jrbales - 5/8/08 12:22 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI've been very happy with VISTA. Generally the problems I had were early on and with antivirus software that was supposed to be built for VISTA but wasn't ready for prime time. Once I replaced it with Norton Antivirus, everything has run at least as well a Windows XP. I think what helped make my experience positive was 1) I thoroughly researched VISTA hardware requirements and built my system based on the information available (with particular attention paid to the selection of video card and building the system with 2GB of DDR2 memory); and 2) I did a clean install instead of an upgrade over Windows XP. Once installed, I refused to use any system utilities until they were built for VISTA. I also made a point to update my drivers (particularly video) early on as they were updated for better Vista performance. While this may be more than a lot of people want to deal with, it did ensure that my Vista experience has been very positive. I even love the Aero interface and find my system at work with Win XP kind of dull without it. I use my sidebar with a selection of gadgets at home which I really miss at work using XP. Given the choice, if I had to select an operating system for a new computer right now, I'd go with VISTA.
Vista gets an A-
by CFlash74 - 5/8/08 12:27 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarThere is really nothing inherently wrong with Vista... and I love the dropshadows around windows and UI as a whole (once I customized the annoying soft blue colors). And with enough RAM it outperforms XP. My Dell Inspiron 6000 (PM 2ghz, 2gb ram, ATI X300, not exactly state of the art) got a BIG performance boost when I switched to Vista. Vista's "superfetch" (after a while) is downright amazing. Applications like Visual Studio that used to take 10 or 15 seconds to load for me under XP now load in less than 3 seconds under Vista.
The problem as always is in driver support. For a time Dell posted updated Vista drivers for my laptop... but they're a little hard to find now (buried on their website). This is not Microsoft's fault. Microsoft can't be responsible that so many hardware vendors (like HP, for instance) have notoriously horrible software support. Hardware vendors expect Microsoft to do their jobs for them. This has been the case for 15 years.
My main gripe is with Office 2007 and its horribly inconsistent UI. For instance, some apps like Word and Excel can be set to Blue, Black, or Silver while others like OneNote and Publisher are ONLY blue under Vista. Also, if you have multiple Excel documents open, only one shows up in Vista's Flip3D. Office 2007 is nowhere near as polished as Vista is.
i love vista ultimate!
by saturdaysuze - 5/8/08 12:35 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarno problems at all, never crashes, copes with all my games, very intuitive, second guessing all the time, love it!
Vista Home Premium 64 is the first OS I've ever bought ;)
by carpe67 - 5/8/08 12:41 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustar... and it is worth every penny.
It requires powerful machine to run it smoothly though.
Love - hate relationship with Vista/XP
by Zdenek Srna - 5/8/08 12:41 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustar...actually they both suck but each one in its own way. Instead of perfecting XP once the majority of teething problems have been ironed out, we now have a new baby. Maybe prettier and more clever but with teething and potty problems all over again. A bit like DSM diagnostic system of psychiatric disorders. 5th version is about to hit the world that is just catching up with the 4th revised one. You can change computer systems but you cannot change human behaviour driven by greed.
Not so silent and Loving It
by Lawrence Lee - 5/8/08 12:42 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarVista is a pretty operating system. After updating my motherboard it became rock solid. What makes Vista great is the Media Center. Being able to record on my system TV shows is worth the price of admission. The system wakes up from sleep, records and then goes back to slumber. Got a full featured remote too.
The enhanced sleep modes is great. Mac users make much of the fact that a Mac can boot in 10 seconds, and that's good. However my Vista box never gets shutdown. It goes to sleep and wakes up in 3 seconds, exactly where I left off and you can't beat that convenience.
Funny thing too I'm able to run applications in Vista that weren't stable in XP, Including some of my old games from circa 98 (dating myself).
Have to say though that Microsoft botched the launch and thanks to vendors with crappy drivers (Nvidia you know who you are) which caused 60% of the crashes, Vista was almost dead on arrival.
But the beast lives.
BTW in a recent contest the Mac was hacked thru Safari, but Vista was unscathed ('cept for Flash).
Stop bashing Vista you mac drones...
It's OK
by MPete27 - 5/8/08 12:55 AM In reply to: Not so silent and Loving It by Lawrence LeeWe got two computers exactly the same with Vista Home Premium 64 back in March 2007. My husband had no problems with Vista at all, but he doesn't run much other than some games and internet. I had tons of blue screens while trying to run itunes and explorer at the same time. As the months have passed and some updates have rolled in, I haven't had those problems that I had at the beginning, they were solved either by Itunes updates or MS updates. Still I liked Vista from the start, even though I had some difficulty with it, but I know some problems are to be expected when a new OS is introduced. I haven't missed XP at all. I'm pretty happy with Vista. I don't LOVE it, but I didn't love XP either. Everything works ok for me now, I can run all my programs with no problems. I like the aero feature. I'm happy with Vista (64 even).
Silent unhappy
by miroso - 5/8/08 12:45 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI got my newest notebook with Vista businees pre-installed. I also use a MacOs 10.5 and an XP SP2 notebook.
Vista is unique in its rate of OS errors and in the number of (MS) application breakdowns per day.
Can't recommend it to anyone.
miroso
Technology advisor
How I feel about vista
by richard keith - 5/8/08 12:46 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI purchased a new laptop about three months ago that came with vista premium preinstalled on it. My first impression was a total freakout and I wanted to have the vista remove and xp pro put on it but i found out the price of the xp disc even home edition was horrible so I decided to try to learn to live with vista. Thre months of experiance now and I can get the vista machine to do most things for me now but frankly it's still a pain. Compaired to my old dell desktop running Xp pro it's still a lot more user friendly and even though the new laptop is three to four times more powerfull than my old dell desktop and theoretically should be a lot faster it isn't the vista is just slow by comparision so Iv'e come to the conclusion that they made a broken copy of xp and sold it as vista. thanks for your time rich
VISTA? The View is Fantastic!
by OLD BLUE - 5/8/08 12:47 AM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarMy experience with Vista began in the early 5000 build beta testing. Despite the horror stories that have run rampant since it's public release I have fallen head over heels in love with Vista. I currently run Vista Ultimate 64 bit and have a full time solid relationship... no BSOD (blue screen of death)episodes to report, in fact I am continually amazed at it's ability to recover from situations that would have killed earlier versions of Windows. I do a lot of beta testing and have been pleasantly surprised at how robust Vista has become. Obviously many vendors have come to the table with compatible drivers, a situation which in the early stages of Vista migration caused many people to report horrendous stories of a new OS that was a nightmare to live with. Over the course of time I have had ocassion to assist users whose systems were more a culprit than Vista itself. The most telling problems lay in installations on systems which were already taxed by XP. Adding Vista to these systems exposed component shortcomings which led to a colouring of Vista as an evil attempt to extort the public into buying new machines for no just cause. Isn't it funny that it's the same people who bemoaned the "power hungry" requirements of Windows 95 who still find it strange that the ongoing development of the "wow" factor computers, boxes which now run multiple applications without breaking a sweat, are still expecting the performance curve to steepen without a concurrent upgrading of equipment? Windows 7, if it develops with a paradigm shift away from legacy Windows kernels, MAY not demand another round of multi-core systems as minimum requirements, but in all likliehood advances in an Operating System will mean that it will address the current state of the art computers and will not look backwards and embrace all the systems that went before... My view may be biased in the direction of users who look at computing as much as an experience to be immersed in as it is a tool, a hobby rather than a requirement of business life, but there are enough of us, I suspect, that we drive the industry as much as, if not more than, business enterprises... I must confess that I have upgraded as I grew with Vista. I run a Q6700 Quad Core CPU, 8 G RAM, ATI X1950 Pro video, 1.8 TB storage, 22" HD monitor, so I am a power user (video editing etc) who loves computing as much for the thrill of the upgrade as for daily use... by the way, did I mention I Love Vista?
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