Oh No! Addicted to vista. [Archive]

benthewraith

Jul 6, 2006, 10:48 PM

It's ha0ppened. I love Vista too much. It is horrible. I have switched back to Tiger once in the last week.

What can I do?

Del Vista. Now, it's the only way. Delete it now!!!

Remember, Windows = Viruses, Mac = No viruses. At the very least, install Linux. ;)

imacintel

Jul 6, 2006, 10:51 PM

That is the problem! I keep going to delete it but Windows pulls me back....damn microsoft and their subliminal OS....:p

EDIT

Ok, I rebooted into tiger. No idea why I switched.

Bubbasteve

Jul 6, 2006, 11:07 PM

If you like the Vista over OS X then you should stay on Vista -- you shouldn't feel obligated to stay with OS X.

coffey7

Jul 6, 2006, 11:07 PM

My precious.I loves my precious.

imacintel

Jul 6, 2006, 11:10 PM

If you like the Vista over OS X then you should stay on Vista -- you shouldn't feel obligated to stay with OS X.

Yeah, I forgot how beautiful and nice OS X Was!:p

AvSRoCkCO1067

Jul 6, 2006, 11:11 PM

Your threads are so...unique :D

I for one always find them entertaining...seriously. :)

killuminati

Jul 6, 2006, 11:14 PM

Why 'Oh no!'?

If you don't want to switch back, then obviously Vista is good so you might as well stay with it. It's not bad to like it just because it's windows. If it's good a good OS, it's a good OS.

There's no reason for you to feel committed to using OS X.

imacintel

Jul 6, 2006, 11:19 PM

Your threads are so...unique :D

I for one always find them entertaining...seriously. :)

Really?

wmmk

Jul 6, 2006, 11:21 PM

Your threads are so...unique :D

I for one always find them entertaining...seriously. :)
Seconded.
Hey, Vista is new. Once you've seen the eyecandy stuff enough, it'll stop mattering, and the understated elegance of OS X will appeal to you again.

AvSRoCkCO1067

Jul 6, 2006, 11:23 PM

Really?

Definitely...(even your polls) :) .

To be sure, some people around here are extreme hard a***** - others, on the other hand, are more leaned-back and casual. I've learned just to ignore the hard a***** ;) .

Counterfit

Jul 6, 2006, 11:33 PM

It's not bad to like it just because it's windows.
Oh, you must not have gotten the memo...

uicandrew

Jul 6, 2006, 11:40 PM

It's ha0ppened. I love Vista too much. It is horrible. I have switched back to Tiger once in the last week.

What can I do?

PS: I am posting this in vista...lol.

what things about vista do you like the most? with even the pc pundits scoffing at vista, i'm really interested in what vista really has to offer.

they've taken out winFS, and the authorization windows apparently bugs a lot of early reviewers.

nospleen

Jul 6, 2006, 11:43 PM

Maybe your brain is frozen... You live in an igloo afterall!:eek:

imacintel

Jul 6, 2006, 11:45 PM

what things about vista do you like the most? with even the pc pundits scoffing at vista, i'm really interested in what vista really has to offer.

they've taken out winFS, and the authorization windows apparently bugs a lot of early reviewers.

The authorization bugs the crap out of me. However I like the eye candy. I now am back to OS X because Vista is BadAss Slow™

Mammoth

Jul 9, 2006, 10:10 PM

If Vista is so much fun.. skin it to look like Windows 95 or something as ugly as that.

wmmk

Jul 9, 2006, 10:14 PM

If Vista is so much fun.. skin it to look like Windows 95 or something as ugly as that.
that just gave a naughty idea about how to get my mom to want to switch to os x. skin her XP box like windows 3.1:eek: :D :p

Sun Baked

Jul 9, 2006, 10:17 PM

Maybe your brain is frozen... You live in an igloo afterall!:eek:More like it is time to buy yourself a Fisher Price Computer/Playset to go along with the Vista User Interface.

Some people after all do revert to their childhood when the stress gets too bad.

Shadow

Jul 10, 2006, 04:36 AM

I'm using Windows Vista Beta 2 (Build 5384) right now. Having only used it for a day or so, my first impressions are that there is no real difference between it and XP, apart from eye candy. Definatley nothing to get me to "upgrade" from XP.

EDIT: The eye candy sucks on my PC cos it only has a nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440 w/ 128MB VRAM :mad:

liketom

Jul 10, 2006, 04:41 AM

Vista is slow - and there is no way that i will be putting my photos movies and music collection in the hands of microsoft

Chrispy

Jul 10, 2006, 09:53 AM

Vista is slow - and there is no way that i will be putting my photos movies and music collection in the hands of microsoft

So well stated. I ran Vista Beta 2 for awhile and it was very slow. I was running it on a Dell Latitude D620 with a core duo, 2GB RAM, 7,200 RPM HDD and a 256MB Quadro NVS110M graphics card. The OS STILL ran laggy for me. That is sad.

kouljackson

Jul 10, 2006, 09:55 AM

Ctrl - Alt - DelVista....lol, they really should have just called this beast XP2.

steviem

Jul 10, 2006, 10:13 AM

I know, the transparency is beautiful, just its really slow, a bit like a model :eek:

BornAgainMac

Jul 10, 2006, 10:43 AM

I want to install "Ultimate Beast". Beast would be good OS name. Other names could be "Beast Pro", "Business Beast", "Beast Lite", "Consumer Beast", "Standard Beast", "Media Beast", and "Extreme Beast".

kouljackson

Jul 10, 2006, 11:04 AM

supremedesigner

Jul 10, 2006, 11:05 AM

daze

Jul 10, 2006, 11:38 AM

I looked at Vista, and liked the eye candy in it quite a bit. The blurring transparency is quite nice. I suspect, Leopard will at least match it.

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

stunna

Jul 10, 2006, 11:51 AM

I heard one of the reasons vista maybe slow is because the system is still indexing your files, for the search feature.
And people that are claiming its slow what are your system specs?

Chrispy

Jul 10, 2006, 11:59 AM

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

I thought Vista looked cool for sure. I just think they took it too far and ended up sacraficing system performance to get the cool look. I really like how when you minimize and maximize windows they kinda fade into view... pretty sweet I must say.

I heard one of the reasons vista maybe slow is because the system is still indexing your files, for the search feature.
And people that are claiming its slow what are your system specs?

Vista had finished indexing on my system I can be sure since I ran the OS for over a week. I had it running on a Dell Latitude D620 with a 1.66 core duo, 2GB RAM, 7,200 RPM HDD and a 256MB Quadro NVS110M graphics card. Performance just seemed laggy to me. XP is still the snappiest OS out there if you ask me... before it gets bogged down from a few years of use that is. OSX starts out a little slower but it stays pretty much the same. I prefer consistency over speed in the long run.

jellybean

Jul 11, 2006, 02:44 AM

Vista runs "ok" on my windoze laptop. It's not lightning fast but it's acceptable, espesh for a beta I guess. When I turn off Aero and switch to the basic UI there's a noticable performance gain and the battery isn't drained as fast.

Specs: Intel Core Duo 1.83, 1gb ram, radeon x1300 with 256mb...

The aero interface is VERY nice, and I'm hoping Apple will respond with a new, nicer interface in Leopard.

Functionality-wise, there are a few big improvements. The start menu is vastly improved. No more big menus and submenus unfolding across the whole screen, instead just a simple A-Z of apps and folders in one single pane. I LOVE how I can bring up any application really quickly without even touching the mouse, by hitting the windows button to bring up the start menu, typing in the first few letters of the app and hitting enter to launch it.

Every explorer window has a burn button at the top. I don't need to create a burn folder and drag stuff in etc like in Tiger. I can just go to the folder I want and hit burn.

But it still feels very much like a beta. When it's finished and polished it will probably match/surpass Tiger in a lot of ways, so here's hoping Leopard will kick it's glassy aero butt back into the dark ages. (Though my gut feeling tells me Leopard may just seem like another "service pack" upgrade like Tiger felt to Panther, to me it did anyway...)

Chrispy

Jul 11, 2006, 12:50 PM

here's hoping Leopard will kick it's glassy aero butt back into the dark ages. (Though my gut feeling tells me Leopard may just seem like another "service pack" upgrade like Tiger felt to Panther, to me it did anyway...)

I agree with you on that one. The only thing Tiger really added that was a very welcome feature to me was spotlight. I wonder what they will do with Leopard now that it seems they have everything I need. The thing that bugged me about Tiger was it made a lot of PM G5s chirp that did not have that problem with Panther.

maxi

Jul 11, 2006, 01:38 PM

I LOVE how I can bring up any application really quickly without even touching the mouse, by hitting the windows button to bring up the start menu, typing in the first few letters of the app and hitting enter to launch it.

That's what I do with spotlight, so it's not some "new" feature of vissssta :)

dpaanlka

Jul 11, 2006, 01:45 PM

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

Actually, I think Vista looks not only overdone (tried too hard to make everything stupendous) but also unpolished. And, let me remind you all, that we had transparent titlebars in earlier builds of OS X, but it was taken out (thankfully) due to how annoying it was after the "neat" wore off. Ditto for the almost 50% transparent menus (which are not in this picture). It may look cool at first, but it really is a stupid idea - it simply doesn't look good when you have dozens of windows open. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Windows users maximize everything so it wouldn't matter. Makes sense now.

http://iindigo3d.com/macos/macosx102.png

Blue Velvet

Jul 11, 2006, 01:52 PM

Every explorer window has a burn button at the top.

So does Tiger if you turn that particular preference on. Control-click on the coggy-thing icon at the top of the window to customise the window.

7on

Jul 11, 2006, 02:48 PM

So does Tiger if you turn that particular preference on. Control-click on the coggy-thing icon at the top of the window to customise the window.

yeah, but it doesn't work (it'll say you need to create a burn folder first).

yg17

Jul 11, 2006, 03:30 PM

Once you've gotten a few BSODs and find your computer infected with spyware and viruses, you'll switch back ;)

grabberslasher

Jul 11, 2006, 04:47 PM

Actually, I think Vista looks not only overdone (tried too hard to make everything stupendous) but also unpolished. And, let me remind you all, that we had transparent titlebars in earlier builds of OS X, but it was taken out (thankfully) due to how annoying it was after the "neat" wore off. Ditto for the almost 50% transparent menus (which are not in this picture). It may look cool at first, but it really is a stupid idea - it simply doesn't look good when you have dozens of windows open. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Windows users maximize everything so it wouldn't matter. Makes sense now.

You fail to take into account the fact that Vista blurs the stuff behind, so that the transparency doesn't affect visibility like in OS X did. Graphics hardware was incapable of doing that back when Apple did transparency, but now it can.

wmmk

Jul 11, 2006, 04:51 PM

You fail to take into account the fact that Vista blurs the stuff behind, so that the transparency doesn't affect visibility like in OS X did. Graphics hardware was incapable of doing that back when Apple did transparency, but now it can.
screenshot of vista doing this, please?

dpaanlka

Jul 11, 2006, 05:01 PM

apunkrockmonk

Jul 11, 2006, 05:31 PM

Actually, I think Vista looks not only overdone (tried too hard to make everything stupendous) but also unpolished. And, let me remind you all, that we had transparent titlebars in earlier builds of OS X, but it was taken out (thankfully) due to how annoying it was after the "neat" wore off. Ditto for the almost 50% transparent menus (which are not in this picture). It may look cool at first, but it really is a stupid idea - it simply doesn't look good when you have dozens of windows open. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Windows users maximize everything so it wouldn't matter. Makes sense now.

http://iindigo3d.com/macos/macosx102.png

Sometimes I wish I could go back to those days. I love the pin stripes.

When I first got my Sawtooth it came with 10.1. It was soooooo slow.

I swear it got 3-4 times MORE responsive when I installed Tiger.

decksnap

Jul 11, 2006, 05:51 PM

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

I admit nothing!! Vista looks horrible in my opinion. Seriously.

gh0sted

Jul 11, 2006, 10:20 PM

I think the transperency is not so hot. I am sure a lot of people will love it though. I mean you can see your adaware and norton internet security behind your I.E. just to make you feel safer!

http://www.activewin.com/articles/2005/images/Pictures%20and%20Videos.jpg