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My school's computer store got the final version of Vista today.
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Warbrain
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What school do you go to? I live in the area, so I could always stop by and see it...
I suspect that we'll be seeing Vista soon at my college, especially me since I work in the computer department...
I'm the Mac Specialist in the store, but I did play around with it for a little bit. I believe the only time it lagged was when we were doing the program scrolling and one of the programs we had running was the live TV, which lagged when we scrolled. The live previews on the task bar work nicely though. Overall, it's pretty smooth so far. That's only with IE and Windows Media Center running though. I'll do more tests tomorrow. Any requests for tests will be tested. Keep in mind I switched to Mac two years ago though, I've lost most of my Windows knowledge. Thank God.
Daniel.
Daniel.
Swarmlord
macrumors 6502a
I've never been able to stand the look of XP. I always revert back to the Win 2000 Pro look. I hope that Vista has the ability to revert back to a less comical theme too.
thewhitehart
macrumors 65816
What's the deal with this "Windows Aero" interface requiring so much graphical and processing power? All macs running 10.3 and up can handle Exposé and the "genie effect" when minimizing, which looks rather more impressive to me than stupid transparent windows.
clevin
macrumors G3
Windows Vista is a complete mess, they need to scrap all the old code and tangled up rubbish that is in windows vista, and start from fresh, like apple did although this would be a huge task, the benefits would be a reliable and stable operating system they need to go through what apple did with OSX,
puckhead193
macrumors G3
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
It's the hardware more then the software.
Ever try Exposé without Quartz Extreme? No ripple effect getting on your mind?
ITASOR
macrumors 601
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
clevin
macrumors G3
lol, if XP is so popular, I guess there is no reason for M$ to completely re-write it, right?
Apple rewrite OSX is because at that time, OS9 was losing its life.
also, OSX borrowed majority code from BSD, can you imagine M$ borrow code from Linux? hehe, as much as I want to see them to do so, its still not a practical expectation.
One of the "gadgets" included are two gauges, one for CPU and one for RAM. The 1GB of memory that the computer has installed idles at 40% when the computer isn't doing anything. As for the Aero scrolling, it really doesn't take much processor. The gauge reads 5% CPU.
Daniel.
P.S. Check out how similar WMP looks to one the iTunes display grouped with artwork!
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clevin
macrumors G3
I hate gadgets. useless and consume system resources
and Vista does looks better than xp
TequilaBoobs
macrumors 6502a
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
I know there's a better performance monitoring tool then looking at a gadget. I've opened up the advanced performance and task manager on Vista before.
I find the Dashboard somewhat useful.
clevin
macrumors G3
well, as long as you don't have 10 gadgets while have only 512MB for your machine....
clevin
macrumors G3
well, can't argue with you, don't really know the techs inside Vista. LOL, have to wait and see how many windows user will adopt Vista in next 6 month.
Okay I checked Task Manager. While nothing is running, 10% of the CPU is being used and 58% of the memory. Seems a bit much, eh?
The computer we're running it on is a Dell Dimension E510 with 1GB of RAM and a 2.80GHz processor. The version of Vista is the Ultimate version.
Daniel.
Vista is going to be pain to deploy. No more CD keys with unlimited unlocks. We have to set up a KMS, client talks to our server that talk to MS and activate the computer every 180 days or a CD key that has limited times it unlocks.