Structaural
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I use XP on my windows partition - has anyone installed Vista on a bootcamped Mac?
How many people actually use Vista, anyway?
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ChrisFilter
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Depends on your hardware... with the proper spec, as I've said, it's faster than XP.
It's like saying XP is slow as fuck when used on underpowered hardware.
That said, if a machine is supplied with Vista and is underpowered from the off, then I can appreciate why it might be seen as slow.
As for the looks, I really like them. XP looks awful now (as posted from my heavily skinned XP Home machine...)
same as me, liking it so far,
tho some over-protective bollx built in,
however I'll probably partition the lappy with xp,
as the compatibility with old apps is rubbish
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Hmmh seen some benchmarks of games that suggest otherwise, even crysis the much touted directx10 title works better on xp under dx9 with the hack to make it work.
As for day to day stuff I dont know how vista or xp could be any faster, all my apps load pretty much instantly.
ChrisFilter
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I wouldn't know re: games to be honest, I'm just talking about the feel of day to day use. Maybe I'm just swayed by the 'instant on' styles of Vista which isn't that much faster than 'hibernate' in XP anyway.
skunkboy69
Reverend of Eternal Light
My son reports that his Americas Army game has gained about an extra 15 fps since I put the Service Pack on yesterday.Thats on a built in GFX chip though so people with high end cards might not notice a difference much.Theres definitely an improvement on the overall running of the computer.When the User Control box comes up to ask for permissions it used to hang for a second but it's instant now.Overall I'm pretty pleased with this SP1 release.
skunkboy69
Reverend of Eternal Light
Porn surfing is not noticeably faster or slower on Vista compared to XP.
LOL Yeah.I guess it's only the important things that count eh ?
Which bizarrely is still the best version of windows by a long way for RAM intensive apps.
You want something to run really fast in Windows, install 2003, set 0 swap, put in 8gb ram.
Bobs your aunt jemima.
dogmatique
merde alors
There's a good article here in the Guardian which addresses the audio issues.
Personally I haven't noticed any difficulties - but then I'm just a "normal" user. Unless you're doing serious studio stuff, I don't think it'd be an issue.
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
Interesting stuff. Think I'd still be tempted to go for XP, and maybe upgrade to Vista in a year or two.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
If I was paying for an os I may be tempted by vista rather then fork out again in future, but its easier to find ways around xp.
ChrisFilter
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Now running on Vista on my 1GB A64 3500+ and my brand new c2d machine, as well as my laptop.
Can't fault it on all three installations, and actually runs surprisingly fast on the old desktop. Really can see now reason why I'd want to go back to XP.
Can't fault it on all three installations, and actually runs surprisingly fast on the old desktop. Really can see now reason why I'd want to go back to XP.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
You would get more fps in crysis
ChrisFilter
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Yeah, that's true. Probably not worth the sacrifice for me though.
Structaural
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Did Microsoft rip-off Apple Mac OS X in Windows Vista?
This guy says no:
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