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I was fearful it would totally screw my PC up. No worries though...it seems to work well.. I find the audio quality VERY good in comparison to XP.
So what's the workaround for Slim Server. I'm looking at building a new box just for SlimServer.Bryan
I have been wanting to get it. Not sure how I will exactly do it yet...Vista Ultimate is expensive ($399 the upgrade is $249) wants a higher-end video card which is probably $250+ (but it will perform the new OS graphics functions with it). Also it will do DX10.* * *Now that MS has stated that you can move a Vista license to another machine ("the device-to-device transferring portion of the Windows Anytime Upgrade EULA is now in sync with Vista's retail EULA, which was modified to allow unlimited transfers last November" ), I am looking at this possible scenario: buy an "inexpensive" refurbished Dell with Vista Ultimate on it, and move the license to a much nicer machine when the new hardware drops significantly, and I would build my own custom PC.This seems very feasible as I found a refurbished Dell with Vista Ultimate * * *
I think $400 is an insanely high price for an operating system that doesn't seem to offer any true reasons to upgrade. Heck, the cost of my previous computer was around that price. If it was $100, I might consider an upgrade, but $400 is way, way too expensive.
Microsoft is slowly but surely loosing ground. Rather than build a really good OS from the ground up (there was a discussion about this in an posting thread this year) they elected to add another story to their house of cards. It's rather like the Roman empire or the Chinese Great Wall; when under threat, build walls. In both instances the barbarians either waited till the guards were asleep or looked for gaps. Since the empires were rotting from within anyway, time did the rest. The barbarians are called Linux in this instance. A friend of mine who is VERY computer savvy bought a new laptop with Vista Pro installed. A week later he formatted the hard drive and re-installed XP. If you can stand Steve Job and his ATTITUDE (or don't care) Mac is the other alternative. As has been stated here before, Linux has come of age and should not be passed by. It's fast, it's hardware friendly it's super complete and it's free, or as near as dammit.
LOL, obviously he wasn’t all that savvy and/or doesn’t’ like change. Most of us don’t. I’ve been using Vista since October of 2006. I won’t go back to XP if you paid me! XP now feels like an old piece of shit, outdated and frustrating to use.
Quote from: shep on 22 Apr 2007, 04:58 pmMicrosoft is slowly but surely loosing ground. Rather than build a really good OS from the ground up (there was a discussion about this in an posting thread this year) they elected to add another story to their house of cards. It's rather like the Roman empire or the Chinese Great Wall; when under threat, build walls. In both instances the barbarians either waited till the guards were asleep or looked for gaps. Since the empires were rotting from within anyway, time did the rest. The barbarians are called Linux in this instance. A friend of mine who is VERY computer savvy bought a new laptop with Vista Pro installed. A week later he formatted the hard drive and re-installed XP. If you can stand Steve Job and his ATTITUDE (or don't care) Mac is the other alternative. As has been stated here before, Linux has come of age and should not be passed by. It's fast, it's hardware friendly it's super complete and it's free, or as near as dammit.?? Not true. I really don’t understand why this piece of misinformation is so widely spread. I think it stems from Mac bias media writers and their lack of responsible journalism. Vista IS a ground up OS just as OSX was. It shares little with WindowsXP which is why it’s been so slow and difficult for hardware vendors to catch up with drivers.Loosing ground? Hardly. MS has nearly 1 Billion users. Don’t expect a Linux or Mac world in the next decade, that just won’t happen. A friend of mine who is VERY computer savvy bought a new laptop with Vista Pro installed. A week later he formatted the hard drive and re-installed XP.LOL, obviously he wasn’t all that savvy and/or doesn’t’ like change. Most of us don’t. I’ve been using Vista since October of 2006. I won’t go back to XP if you paid me! XP now feels like an old piece of shit, outdated and frustrating to use.
