Vista, the frigid, stale, runt twin of 0S X

[benfilan]

i'm posting from Vista!its terribly exciting. and by exciting i mean, well, dull.

its extremely xp-ish, just a bit shinier. the owner turned off the vista rip-offof expose, and she doesnt know how to turn it on. so cute.

i am so glad i use a mac

 

[clevin]

this is Apple, Industry and Internet Discussion board.....

 

[benfilan]

this is Apple, Industry and Internet Discussion board.....

industry discussion?

anyway, chill out psycholina, this is the internets, not 'nam.

 

[xUKHCx]

anyway, chill out psycholina, this is the internets, not 'nam.

Brilliant sentence.

Anyway how is it frigid? I mean Vista will go with just about anyone. OS X is the choosey type. And who wants to get it on with their OS anyway

 

[DerChef]

I actually rather like the Vista Glass interface very much and would say it makes Tiger look a we bit old now until Leopard arrives that is.

What my problem is with Vista is that it has brought my not that old PC to its knees and I have spent my time turning off services and interface items to try and get some performance out of the dam thing

Needless to say I dual boot back into XP to actually do some work

 

[gkarris]

I actually rather like the Vista Glass interface very much and would say it makes Tiger look a we bit old now until Leopard arrives that is.

What my problem is with Vista is that it has brought my not that old PC to its knees and I have spent my time turning off services and interface items to try and get some performance out of the dam thing

Needless to say I dual boot back into XP to actually do some work

I hear you need a DX10 type of system (C2D, DX10 video card with 512Megs, 2Gigs RAM+) if you want to enjoy anything above Vista Basic...

 

[clevin]

I hear you need a DX10 type of system (C2D, DX10 video card with 512Megs, 2Gigs RAM+) if you want to enjoy anything above Vista Basic...

no, p4+1GRAM+GMA950 is fine.

 

[xUKHCx]

I hear you need a DX10 type of system (C2D, DX10 video card with 512Megs, 2Gigs RAM+) if you want to enjoy anything above Vista Basic...

tripe. It can work on much lower specs.

 

[DerChef]

no, p4+1GRAM+GMA950 is fine.

Thats about what I have I would not not want to try anything much less.

Vista is an odd beast some things it does really fast its desktop search function I would say is quicker than spotlight but other things are horrific slow like copying big files between drives.

 

[yellow]

Strangely, I found Vista to be quite slow.

AMD Opteron 180 + 4GB RAM + 8800 GTS

I've gone back to XP for my gaming.

 

[benfilan]

Brilliant sentence.

Anyway how is it frigid? I mean Vista will go with just about anyone. OS X is the choosey type. And who wants to get it on with their OS anyway

why thankyou

frigid? well....it doesn't engage me. it still feels like a cold terminal, its not MY machine, its....bleh.

Also, is anyone ever going to figure out why windows machines have this constant symphony of whirrs, fans on/off, a thousand lights, hard drive activity when nothing is happening etc etc....?

 

[benfilan]

I actually rather like the Vista Glass interface very much and would say it makes Tiger look a we bit old now until Leopard arrives that is.

i agree, it did look, dare i say it, quite slick

but it doesn't make me want Vista, just anticipate Leopard more

 

[benfilan]

sub-q

whats the vista name for its version of expose?

 

[xUKHCx]

flip 3D

 

[imac/cheese]

Vista, the frigid, stale, runt twin of 0S X

i'm posting from Vista!its terribly exciting. and by exciting i mean, well, dull.

its extremely xp-ish, just a bit shinier. the owner turned off the vista rip-offof expose, and she doesnt know how to turn it on. so cute.

i am so glad i use a mac

Why are you insulting runt twins by comparing them to Vista?

 

[TheStu]

flip 3D

They shined up Alt+Tab, so now you flip through all the open windows on your system by either arrows or scrolling your mouse wheel. Expose is much faster IMO.

 

[twoodcc]

i've only used Vista a little bit. maybe i should try it again some time......nah, i'll buy leopard instead

 

[yellow]

Well for the cost (of Ultimate), you can buy 2+ copes of Leopard!