Dell Brings XP Machines Back.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-04-24 03:35pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:
Arrow wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:I found vista to be a bit slow at times. On my brand fucking new E6600 Core 2 Duo system I will not tolerate that!
And how much ram did you get with your system?
2 gigabytes

What type of a graphics card? Vista is rather dependent on the type of card you have available, after all. (I have noticed some sluggishness using Aero on my laptop, but given it's running an integrated graphics card that was expected).

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2007-04-24 03:36pm

My opinion on Vista? If you've got 2 GB of RAM, and had the option of getting XP or Vista free, I'd *probably* go with Vista. I'd at least recommend "mom and pop" take Vista for the security features.

But I wouldn't pay a dime for the upgrade. XP is too darn stable at this point if you set it up properly, relatively speaking.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2007-04-24 03:36pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:2 gigabytes

By the context of your post, I take it you uninstalled Vista?

Assuming you only used it for a couple of days, then it might be Vista doing its caching and indexing. I've done a couple of Vista reinstalls, and I've noticed it gets good bit faster after a couple of days. Also, you might want to check your hard drive properties in device manager; Vista seems to default to safer, slower transfer speeds.

Praxis wrote: That's the UAC I mentioned.

It wouldn't let me rename "Untitled folder" without typing in my username and password.

It only does that in system folders (Windows, Program Files, etc.). And you can turn off UAC in the User Accounts control panel.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2007-04-24 03:40pm

Praxis wrote:But I wouldn't pay a dime for the upgrade. XP is too darn stable at this point if you set it up properly, relatively speaking.

So is Vista, as long as your using newer hardware and software. From my experience, 99% of the problems Vista users have is due to third party software and drivers not being ready. And software and driver support is something that is rapidly improving.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2007-04-24 03:40pm

General Zod wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:
Arrow wrote: And how much ram did you get with your system?
2 gigabytes
What type of a graphics card? Vista is rather dependent on the type of card you have available, after all. (I have noticed some sluggishness using Aero on my laptop, but given it's running an integrated graphics card that was expected).

I went with an Nvidia 7300GT with 256mb of ram. Not the fastest of the bunch but still a pretty good performer IMO.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-04-24 03:47pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:
General Zod wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote: 2 gigabytes
What type of a graphics card? Vista is rather dependent on the type of card you have available, after all. (I have noticed some sluggishness using Aero on my laptop, but given it's running an integrated graphics card that was expected).
I went with an Nvidia 7300GT with 256mb of ram. Not the fastest of the bunch but still a pretty good performer IMO.

That sounds like the bottleneck then. I've got 256mb of integrated graphics with 2gb of ram running a 2ghz AMD Turion 64 processor. Vista runs fine for the most part, but it is somewhat sluggish using Aero. I might switch to the regular Vista theme to see if I can notice any performance boosts later.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-04-24 05:07pm

Destructionator XIII wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:What really pissed me off when I tried Vista was how when I wanted to do something... lets say "administrative" it would always display a fucking dialouge box asking me this or that. After the millionth dialouge box or so I wasn't that into Vista anymore.
Why are you doing administrative things so often? I can imagine it being annoying for the first few days as you install your stuff, get set up, and so on, but after that, I would imagine it wouldn't be an issue.

I rarely go root on my Linux box. (But, I haven't tried Vista myself, despite wanting to, so maybe they are stricter about it).

I've noticed a number of security popups every time I need to install updates or new software, but for the most part I don't really pay it much attention. So to me it's not an issue, though I can see how it would be for some people.