Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Silent Vista-loving majority?
Lost External Drive
by Pat Lamey - 5/8/08 7:45 PM In reply to: "Lost" external drive by PhotoManIts the WD External 1T with its own power supply.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/index.asp?Cat=8
Well, it doesn't get lost on either my XP laptop or on my XP Gateway. It does get lost on the HP Vista. I just assumed it was Vista. Any other thoughts?
pat
Re: Lost external drive
by PhotoMan - 5/8/08 9:27 PM In reply to: Lost External Drive by Pat LameyI'm Googling around for similar problems. Is your external drive formatted as fat32 or NTFS ? If fat32, it will "crap-out" after 4gig.
ref: Lost External drive
by PhotoMan - 5/8/08 10:07 PM In reply to: Re: Lost external drive by PhotoManAnother possibility is processor overheating.
Don`t get me wrong, I`m not saying it is impossible for the problem to be Vista related but there can be many other possible reasons.
The WD arrived configured
by Pat Lamey - 5/11/08 9:04 PM In reply to: Re: Lost external drive by PhotoManSorry I cannot respond accurately. I'm away for Mother's Day weekend and can't look up the drive info. However, I have 450G on it (movies and photos) with no problem with XP (2 machines).
Pat
Half-and-half
by zynixo - 5/8/08 4:03 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI overall think Vista is good. There are several built-in applications I love, and even though the security is overwhelming, it at least tries. The only faults I can find in it are the same everyone else seems to have: drivers. Just not enough Vista drivers out there, especially for the old-ish PCs. Of course, this rant of "I love it/I hate it" sounds familiar, from when XP came out...
No problems here
by anthonyyoung - 5/8/08 4:05 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI got vista when it first came out, vista home premium for my tower at home. Ever since then I've loved it. I now also have a laptop with vista ultimate. Since then I have built two computers, one for my grandmother, the other for my girlfriends parents both with vista home premium and on the cheap.
Personally the only problem I have had is with a really old tv capture card, which i have since replaced. I use my Vista PC for everything from gaming to drafting with autodesk products, to video and audio editing, to web page design as well as making little programs with visual basic.
I have and will continue to recommend vista to my friends and co-workers.
Cheers
(I just read over what i wrote and I sound like a kiss arse)
Silent Vista-loving majority:
by carlos3330 - 5/8/08 4:07 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI`ve had vista for a yr. now & I`m not that silent about it. I brag about it all the time that a few of my friends have gone to vista. I love everything about it !!!!!!!
Brighter and Clearer
by jonathanmack - 5/8/08 4:15 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI have been using Vista since December with a new system that I built. At first there were occasional driver issues but after I got "SP1 beta" I haven't had any problems, manly because of new hardware.
I use both Leopard and Vista to do motion graphic for work and I enjoy working with After Effects better in Vista. The overall look of the aero theme seems clearer and cleaner to me, which makes it easier to read during the late-night renders.
I've been a bit angry that Vista is being bashed so much because it gives the appearance that the people who do use Vista are idiots, which is not the case. I believe it's a step better than XP and how can one complain about that? You people who don't like Vista need to take a chill pill.
Time to upgrade your hardware...
by silver1970 - 5/8/08 4:19 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI played with Vista for a bit when it first came out, dual-booting with XP Media Center. I had an older 3Ghz P4, but with 2GB of RAM I figured it would do -- it was too slow. So when I finally decided I wanted to switch for good, I put together a new dual-core P4 system, and 64-bit Vista is solid on it. I had to spend some money, for new motherboard, processor, memory and video, but you need to do that with any new version of Windows (or MacOS for that matter!)
Loving It
by firestarter - 5/8/08 4:20 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarbeen using since Thanksgiving 2007 on my laptop and now using it on my main desktop and loving it just love how great it works with my xbox 360 as well.
Vista has attached itself to me.
by jamesreut - 5/8/08 4:21 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI upgraded my system from XP Media Center Edition to Vista Home Premium and really enjoyed the features it has. After some months I decided to reformat my system to clear it all out and decided just to run XP. About 2 days later I thought to myself, I really miss Vista. So I reinstalled Vista.
Silent Vista Lover
by mz2independent - 5/8/08 4:30 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI have to say I am one of the silent majority. I wasn't at first. I almost immediately wanted to throw my laptop through the wall & revert back to 2000 professional or XP, but with all new OS's come incompatibility problems especially in the first year and this one is certainly no exception to the rule. Kudo's to Dell for giving XP another year of life for buyers of their systems after the release last year & the relization of all the issues immediatly following. I stuck it out, did all my updates, checked with CNET daily for cleaning, purging, and virus protection programs that were compatible, and pretty much have been able to live in complete bliss with my new baby. Thank you CNET for keeping peace for me & my laptop!! Mary Lou W., Cameron, Texas
Comparing Vista to XP is like like comparing girlfriends
by lt x - 5/8/08 4:31 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI purchased a computer August 2007 with Vista installed. It took me more than 6 months to finally accept Vista as it is- warts and all. I had found that comparing the two OS systems to each other was like comparing the new girlfriend to the old girlfriend. Not very productive and sometimes toxic.
Here's an example of comparing the two: Recently, I'm editing videos with Windows Movie Maker and I am very pleased with Vista's Movie Maker compared to XP's version. Both are good but Vista's is so much better. On the other hand, XP is just as fast as Vista in most applications.
I could write all night comparing the differences and my preferences between XP and Vista but why bother? It will only end up in resentment and heartbreak.
So, I am slowly likeing (maybe falling in love) with Vista as I use it more and more and learn its good side and bad side. But there will always be a place in my heart for XP.
Pretty good overall, but could and will be better...
by stephmipar - 5/8/08 4:38 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarI have been using Vista Ultimate x64 on 3 of my systems since January 2007. Choosing the right hardware goes a long way, I was always able to get the right drivers for the nVidia 7000 and 8000 series video cards and the Creative Labs X-Fi sound card. Though, the drivers were a little shaky at times until the 2nd quarter of 2007. Now they are nearly bullet proof. Games play perfectly, regular apps work together and never crash, etc.
Using Vista Media Center is also a dream come true for people who want to build their own DVR. We were all sick of spending $800 for "professional" DVRs that only had 120GB hard drives or less! Really...WHY? Would it kill these companies to spend the extra $40 bucks for a real 500GB or now a 1TB drive? Sure, pass the $40 cost on to me, but don't charge me $800 for a simple unit that has a tiny hard drive no one has used in a desktop since the 90's! Now you can go ahead and slap 4 1TB drives in a RAID array in your system and capture 700 hours of HD 
And you don't even have to pay "the Man" for a monthly Guide fee just to update your TV listings every month.
The ONLY thing that hasn't happened yet, THAT ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO HAPPEN, is Microsoft needs to add native clear QAM support for over cable HD within Media Center itself. Right now, all of the digital tuners on our cards are sitting there useless, because they only support over the air HD. We have to resort to the only device on the market (that I am aware of) which goes around Microsoft's limitation and gives you clear QAM over cable support, the HDHomeRun from SiliconDust. The only problem with this device is that it is external and uses a network connection, which takes some ironing out to work correctly, but once it does...it is SOOOOO worth it! Where's the PCI-e version of this guys?
Even though it took them 1 year, we now have Vista Media Center Extenders from LinkSys and D-Link as of January 2008, so we no longer have to use our power hungry XBox360 as a media extender! Making Vista Media Center that much better!
Considering
by link48010 - 5/8/08 4:41 PM In reply to: Silent Vista-loving majority? by chustarwhen taking into consideration the issues some people complain about, Vista has done very well by me. One issue with Nero 8 but that's it so far. I just have to watch programs that don't work by date, but that's something I have gotten used to doing.
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