Windows Vista August 30, 2006, 08:17:22 PM Last night, MS was offering 100,000 free copies of Vista Ultimate PreRC1 (basically the version they send out for previews and stuff; close to done), so I c00ched one. Well today, my installation of XP Pro got corrupted, so I wiped my hard drive and put Vista on here. It is REALLY nice. Auto installed all my drivers; I didn't have to touch a thing. I just popped on the internet instantly and went on my merry way. It's very streamlined too. And keep in mind that this is the 32 bit version, not the 64bit, so I bet I'm not even seeing its full potential. Of course, it'll be VERY expensive for Ultimate ($600 I think), but some versions will be around $200. It's definately better than XP, imo. Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #1 – August 30, 2006, 08:37:37 PM if they are still available, where can you get one? Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #2 – August 30, 2006, 09:12:11 PM Sorry, they were all taken by the time I woke up at 6:30 this morning :( . I had mine running overnight cause the download was 2 and a half gigs. Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #3 – August 30, 2006, 09:27:20 PM About two months ago Microsoft mailed me one for some reason (actually, they mailed me two DVD's, one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit). I dunno why they mailed it - probably because I'm one of the seven people on earth with a legit, registered copy of WinXP :D I still haven't played with it, though - I may set up the Gateway laptop for dual booting, since it's got a 64-bit chip. The beta's expire on June 1, 2007, though... Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #4 – August 30, 2006, 10:02:31 PM I plan to get full Vista around April/May, so that works for me!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/kingcars/6d6b11da.jpgTheres a pic of Vista on my comp....Sooo...you wanna send me that 64bit version? hahahaha Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #5 – August 30, 2006, 11:24:53 PM $600! for Ultimate! I guess my Architecture laptop will be staying XP for a while and so will my desktop. Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #6 – August 30, 2006, 11:52:53 PM Meh. I guess I'll stay in the stone age with my 2k. I REALLY need to upgrade very soon, but I just don't like XP. And it's a scary proposition that Vista is loaded with even more 'security' bullshiznit. Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #7 – August 31, 2006, 12:06:07 AM Quote from: Thunder Chicken- probably because I'm one of the seven people on earth with a legit, registered copy of WinXP :D Woohoo!!! We must be part of some elite brotherhood or something!But mine is legit without me having to pay for it :D Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #8 – August 31, 2006, 10:13:43 AM Amazon.com started taking pre-orders for Vista a few days ago. Their pricing is $199 for Vista Home Edition and $399 for Ultimate Edition.Yeah....I'll be sticking with XP for a bit. Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #9 – August 31, 2006, 01:54:30 PM I have 4 ligeit copys of XP, and I only paid 30 bucks for the last set.granted they are oem. but still I own em! (though not to proud of it)Daniel Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #10 – August 31, 2006, 06:21:27 PM vista has been nothing but ass for me.they don't support 3com nics (come on, i have like 10 of 'em, they are the best 10/100 nic EVER)didn't like USB for , can barely customize it with it telling you that it doesn't think you should do it, no one has video codecs for it yet. and if it was any more bloated you would need deep blue to boot it. I had it on a 1.5 ghz pent. with a gig of ram and it idle at 10% cpu and almost 200 meg of memory.they really need to work on it. otherwise I am sticking with xp for awhile. i can run xp sp2 on a 300 mhz laptop with 64 meg of ram and steam audio all day long, the vista machine could barely do that. Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #11 – August 31, 2006, 07:08:11 PM I havent had any USB problems with my flash drive or webcam.And yes, the biggest downside of Vista is that it is a resource hog. Using 400megs of RAM on my machine!!! Although my new computer should handle it fine :) . Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #12 – August 31, 2006, 07:12:27 PM Microsoft Action Pack Subscriber heh Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #13 – August 31, 2006, 09:44:51 PM What??? A new version of Windows that's bloated? Get OUT!!! Cripes, the first version of Windows I ever had came on a single floppy (MS Windows/286). Then 3.1 on six floppies, then 95 on 24 floppies (you read that right), then 95 on a CD, and so on up to XP. I think a frest install of 95 only took up about 150 megs of HDD space. What's a fresh XP install run now, a gig and a half? Quote Selected
Windows Vista Reply #14 – September 03, 2006, 05:18:35 PM our xp image at my old job was 6 gig!!!! vista comes only on dvd... i'll run it, cuase i'm a windows dork and that is what pays the bills, but xp sp2 will be my choice till vista tweaks are available to pull that over head down. i run xp with less than 20 running services.. and is on the machine i use daily. Quote Selected
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