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Community weekly poll: Will you be installing Windows Vista?
- 1/30/07 4:24 PM
Firefox and IE
by rmissourimule - 12/3/07 8:46 AM In reply to: Vista is a DOG by doc4wos2Using both including Thunderbird on my Vista machine. No problems. Altough IE came with the machine I installed Firefox and Thunderbird soon after with no problems. I seldom use IE and I have abandoned Outlook Express entirely. Actually a person can use (as I do), Yahoo web mail with pretty much all the features and you'll never lose any e-mails because it is on Yahoo's server. When I fired up my new machines, all the old e-mail was waiting for me. I will, however, have to transfer my Thunderbird e-mails over to my new machines. They are on the hard drives.
Vista sucks (kinda)
by charliegirl42 - 12/15/07 8:26 PM In reply to: Will you be installing Windows Vista? by Marc Bennett
Well, it IS pretty... I jumped from 98SE to Vista.. and I THOUGHT it was going to be "heaven"...
Actually it was heaven... for a while. It turned into hell and I am about ready to throw it into the yard!
I've read other stuff (not here) about all the security leaks it has, drivers NOT available (for my photo printer!!!) and other weird-ities...I wish I had gotten a new computer when XP home was still selling big. I don't like this... but I am getting used to it.
UGH!
Vista Upgrade?
by TechQueen - 12/18/07 4:36 PM In reply to: Will you be installing Windows Vista? by Marc Bennett
I do have Vista. On one of my laptops. I purchased it specifically to test Vista. Surprisingly, most software does work with it, drivers however, are a different story! Vista is also a memory hog. With the one gig installed with Vista it is VERY slow. The Vista Pop-up screens are also a pain. Everytime I want to do something, whether it is an install, a removal or even something as simple as a configuration change or the creation of a system restore point .... I get the pop up that wants my permission. It is an aggrevating waste of time as my choices are to allow or to deny, and when you allow ... it does not even ask for administrator permission. It is nothing more than an exercise in futility designed to make the less tech savvy think it is a security feature! Finally, they hid may of the things we techs use to access utilities and troubleshoot: like "run" and system restore.
All that being said, I will not be upgrading my main system anytime soon and I am still selling XP. I don't recomment Vista to date, I have not sold a single Vista Unit or installation!
Vista's biggest selling point is that it is pretty ... like Mac!
Vista.
by Me, Myself and You - 12/19/07 7:06 AM In reply to: Vista Upgrade? by TechQueenJust use my friend's laptop and Vista was using a whole 1GB of memory. For a system with 2GB, not bad, but it'd reduce my current system (which runs XP perfectly fine) to a heap of trash.
I sure have changed my tune about Vista... but that's just shocking.
changed your tune
by kjdinoc - 12/29/07 2:22 PM In reply to: Vista. by Me, Myself and YouAs in you like it now? I hope so. I bought my Mom & Dad a mid $500.00 HP Slimline desktop for Christmas. Vista Home Premium with 1GB memory. They are definitely lightweight Users, pretty much email and some light web surfing. I set the machine up for them a few days ago and it runs beautifully. They really like it.
No.
by Me, Myself and You - 1/4/08 2:15 PM In reply to: changed your tune by kjdinocI still think Vista is over rated and I certainly WON'T be getting it any day soon.
When I get the MacBook pro I will still be running XP. No Vista for me thank you.
agreed
by Tulsaboyw - 8/12/08 3:55 PM In reply to: No. by Me, Myself and Youin the context of the times (when this thread was still active) and pre-SP1 I would agree about vista.
But in the context of post-SP1 Vista and the reality that you should have 1gig or more to do a lot of stuff.
Vista 64 is what I run, and I run it on a quad pc with 6gig of ram.
I run Windows Media Center and many other things simultaniously and even do Visual Studio Developement and Boinc & other stuff.
At times much of the above simultaniously.
On a similar pc with XP I would crawling at this point.
I too back in January 2008 was figuring on a Mac by now.
But this computer with SP1 is definately pretty good.
I think SP1 is what made Vista worthwhile.
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