Although VISTA looks so nice, i don’t know if my hardwares will fit on its requirements.
I like to try VISTA, but i don’t want to take the risk… (I’m tired reformating my PC again… As i always do… for almost 300X)…
Right now, I am using
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
2.4GH CPU
80GB HD
384MB RAM
Do it fit to VISTA requirements?? (I think it’s not) ;D ;D
Even if I did have all the hardware requirements for Vista, I still don’t think I would use it. So many of my fellow CG artists are having a tough time getting the OS to work with the software we use, so I’m sticking with XP.
i would like to say try it!
Make a complete backup from your system an install Vista.
I can say, i installed Vista on a Intel Centrino Notebook only with 1.4 GHz, 512MB RAM and 40GB Harddisk, and only 3GB are free Space ;D but it works very fine, not so fast but its even faster then the old Installation of Win XP
I forget to say, there is only an Intel Graphiccard with Pixelshader 1.0 inside, no visualisation from Windows AERO
vista sucks for gaming and it is slower than xp if ur hard drive is full due to more memory being used for fancy visual stuff. also many downloads/prgrams are incompatible with vista.
if i were u, wait a year or so until a new vista has been released that is more compatible and less pointless!
Well Vista SP1 is touted for later this year, that should fix some of the compatibility/driver issues, but it certainly won’t add any new functionality to cater for the “less pointless” comment.
There is also the replacement for Vista in the pipeline, supposedly being built from scratch that won’t be concerned with backwards compatibility with old versions. MS seem to think this will only take two years, but that was I believe what they said about Vista and we all know how long that took ;D
Well Apple Did this last year with the intel changeover. Rather than taking the time to rewrite the Classic environment they just axed it. As a result you can not use Mac OS 9.x (and earlier) apps on a intel Mac
That by all accounts was why Vista was such a pig to develop they want to start from scratch. I can’t recall which newsletter I read it in but that was what was being touted.
On my XP desktop I check and send email, surf the internet, edit and print photos, make slide shows, word process and create an occasional data base or spread sheet.
On my Vista laptop I check and send email, surf the internet, edit and print photos, make slide shows, word process and create an occasional data base or spread sheet. And I have a pretty clock in the sidebar now.
I’ve been using Vista for a couple weeks now and besides my crappy sound card drivers(will never ever buy Creative again) it seems to be working just fine. Some older games don’t work well in Vista or don’t work at all but i can live with that since i still have xp installed and i can play in xp if i want but i guess dual booting isn’t the answer for people with limited HD space.
My advice would be to wait for Vista SP1 before making the switch or if you have plenty of HD space just do like i did and dual boot XP and Vista. But certainly 384mb of ram is not enough for Vista ! Have 2gb ram here and Vista is using almost half of that … :o
I love XP SP2 for now. But I used to have 98SE, so it was a big change. I found it easier to upgrade my machine when it was time to buy a new one. My XP CPU is 4 years old now and going strong, so by the time Vista is in my sights it should have at least one if not two SP upgrades. With the cheap prices for desktop machines today, it seems better to go to a discount seller for a new machine. Certainly it isn’t much more expensive in the USA than actually buying the Vista upgrade.
BTW, what is so much better about Vista RejZoRon then XP?
I have super powerful machine now and and I’ve been running it since the first day. All I can say is Vista simply sucks ! It’s full of bugs, don’t even want to go into detail it makes me sick how stupid mistakes MS did. I was thrilled at first like millions of others out there, but now when it actually stays on my way to do my business properly, Vista only gets on my nerves. They rushed everything just for the competition sake, nothing else. OS is obviously not finished and the biggest proof for that is that they already released a bunch of updates, and what’s even more sad, not talking about security updates, but so called Performance updates. Incredible stupid mistakes, that’s unbelievable… simple copying of a large number of files takes forever, GUI notification about approximate remaining time to finish this task, is not even close… millions of small errors and bugs. Just try to open Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3 in with some 300 Mb large AI file inside (sorry, but that’s how it is when we do our designing business here, especially when NIKE and MINI moris are sending us their story boards). Vista slows down to a crawl. 2 MB of DDR3 doesn’t help much, Intel Core 2 Duo doesn’t help much… so what do they need ?
It is all nice and pretty, but beauty doesn’t last for long… just like in real life. In this case I don’t need bells and whistles, I need productivity, and that’s what’s missing here.
It is very sad to say that I’m forced to boot into XP more often than I can count, so I can finish some of those tasks on time. Yes, it’s not that pretty, but XP does it without a problem.
All this helped me to slowly switch to Apple… 98% of designing world in here is using Apple and that simply became standard. With these wonderful new iMacs and super low prices, you simply can’t beat those deals… Apple is finally entering out world in a big way.
I’ll keep PCs no question about it, but for once let’s be realistic. Even PCLinuxOS that I run on my other machine works better than Vista. MS screwed up this game, no question about it…
