But... if you have a PC, you do have a mac(!) Just find a way to get the 'grey versions' of OSX onto it and away you go. Though it seems that you need an SSE3 equipped processor in your machine.
There is no reason to have to have Dual Core Processiors just to run Vista. No thanks, that is why I dual boot Ubuntu 7.04 and XP for photoshop / other stuff.
Vista is a horrible software platform! It is no better than XP and to be honest it runs slower than a slug! (Slugs cant run- think about it)
Vista loads very slowly and not compatible with certain softwares. Windows XP is the best at the performance point of view.
Last time I tried, it wasn't compatible with my HDD controller...everything else worked, though...did it both in VM (SLOW!) and off a portable HDD (wouldn't boot after install)...
Vista is a slow, I agree. I recently bought a computer with Vista on it, and my dads friend (who is a computer FREAK) added a few more gigs of space to it, removed unneeded graphics and made it faster. Now I have no problem with it.
wrong... your type of thinking will have everyone driving crappy chevys from 40 years ago...I much prefer to ride in an '08 Maserati =P Vista is a great OS to test technology with... http://www.popfly.ms http://silverlight.net/fox/ http://www.programmableweb.com/ http://labs.live.com/deepfish/ http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ http://labs.live.com/Seadragon.aspx ^all these are technologies that need vista to run at optimal performance (some arent capatible with XP) I agree that vista is very buggy but I think it is a great stepping stone in creating a really outstanding OS in a few years from now I use XP, Vista, OSX Panther, Ubuntu, Cent OS (server), RedHat (server), and windows 2k3 (server)
There will be hacks for XP to run that crap when (if) we ever need it. Also, Linux will emulate and win over everything.
I don't like vista because all it has is a fancy interface....XP runs faster on my machines and most of the programs I need dont run properly with it.... sony vegas, ulead meadiastudio pro
when i last tried to use it there was no support for my older PC, its only one year old or so and i found it very hard to get drivers.
I guess Microsoft will learn that you can't force your customers to buy new computers just becasue they want too.
The issue isn't with Vista, it's with Windows as a whole. They've been stacking on, and rewriting small portions. While what they should do is rethink the complete platform, get rid of DLLs and the Registry.
Windows Vista uses about 1.35GB of RAM itself (max) for me, so yeah it is a system resource hog. It is pretty stable though...I only encounter errors with applications made for Windows XP and below. It's a better operating system than I would have thought.
I always thought that this "all against microsoft" attitude is stupid and that sometimes people criticize M$ stuff without knowing what they are talking about. Now, i ve been using Vista on my main computer for a while. I have to face it...It sucks. It consumes way too much memory for nothing, my applications hang (even if they are vista compatible). It is just miserable. Vista is as bad as Windows Millenium used to be. Nothing new in it , nothing that can justify the price or any migration idea If you run adobe premiere 7.0. Do not migrate to vista, it does not work, the only fix is to buy the premiere cs3 version. Less than 2GB memory? Forget about Vista
i dont think people are against vista , they are just with windows xp , am i making sense ? hope i am . Vista is a good OS but its going to take sometime to be widely used .not to far when xp will stop doing things you want as softwares will stop supporting xp . but this will take a while i guess .