XP Retiring in 2008 (for those who don't know already)

Has anyone mentioned the fact that Mac's are pretty much useless now for what they were originally designed for. The whole big thing about Mac's was the Risk chips, the mass capabilities for eating up media processes without blinking an eyelid.

Well thats now all gone out the window now that a Mac is just a PC with a different OS.

On the XP/Vista front, i wont go anywhere near Vista until its as compatible as XP.

 

I have had vista installed yesterday and uninstalled today. Vista is a HUGE memory hog and not recommended for computers running with <2 Giga Ram .

 

So very true they were rendering monsters and hence why a lot of graphics people and modelers used macs. Well now that they're using the same hardware as standard pc's the advantage isn't barely there anymore.

 

when i was hired as a new employee to the company im currently working at, they provided me with a laptop that had vista pre-loaded on it. it absolutely killed my productivity. vista is TERRIBLE. it offers NOTHING that matters to me that XP doesnt. its just prettier. every single time you want to take an action on vista, it asks you 100 times if "You're sure you want to do that". long story short, it was so bad that i went to my new boss and asked him if my new laptop could be exchanged for one with XP on it. best move i ever made since joining this company.

 

You mean Vista with the GUI.

 

Can you explain how to run Vista without GUI ?

 

Vista's GUI is probably less strain on CPU and memory if you have a decent video card. Considering it's now rendering that with a video card not using your CPU to do it.


As for UAC you can disable it if you like (I don't recommend it). What it's doing is trying to limit you from performing administrative level tasks without your knowledge. It's basically what happens in a linux environment when you need to do something that requires root access. Although at this point it's a little annoying, I imagine as more programs don't write to program files constantly and other area's that are suppose to be restricted this will be a less of a problem.

 

They have already stopped selling xp liceanse keys...now you have to buy vista business edition and mircrosoft considers that the equivalent to a liceanse key for xp pro

 

Can someone help me understand this better? I plan to buy Windows XP Home Edition sometime this month. Does this mean my XP licence will not be useable after Microsoft stops supporting XP? Will I be allowed to use the Windows XP long after the support is gone? All that information in the article confuse me. I've never tried Vista and I already don't like it, XP has served me good and I think it's the best version of Windows ever created so I'm not considering jumping to Vista any time soon. Tell me, if I buy XP licence now, will all this mumbo jumbo affect me as a user (not considering the support)?

 

No your license will still work but you won't get support for it. I suggest you upgrade to vista when service pack 1 for it comes out though. I have vista and I've only has 3 or 4 problems with it.

 

Is that 3 or 4 big problems or just problems... LOL

I have XP pro and it has no problems.. So I ask, why in the heck would I want to trade something with no problems. For something that has problems?

Does not sound like something I would be interested in..

I would would rather run pup Linux on a pen drive, before I would take that over bloated, mega prompt window jumping up thing!

Boulder

 

Their just simple problems like folders becoming invisible when moving their location but that problem can be fixed by restarting the PC.

 

Oh so you mean, I can not just grab folders and drag and drop them, with out the folder going invisible inside where ever I dropped it? And than having to restart my computer the next time I need to find that file or folder.. Okay.. yea that sounds like a simple little problem and a real good way to get angry at an OS.. I drag and drop and cut and paste a hundred or more files a day man.. That sounds like an OS that would not work for me!

Boulder

 

No this actually only happens once and a while , NOT every single time and it only happens when u move something to the desktop. Sorry for not stating that before.

 

Oh okay, not so bad than, I guess! But that does sound a little bit like the old Win98 forte.. LOL

That aspect of when in doubt? *REBOOT* I remember so well from the old 98 days.. LOL


Boulder

 

I have not once had this happen on a vista machine I have.

 

Well i guess microsoft hates me

 

The UAC is very bad implemented.Even if I am login as administrator ask for administrator permission.
Even if I don't transfer files to the root or program files the UAC ask for permission.

The biggest security method that Microsoft implemented in Vista
Ask the user, if something wrong happen is user fault the SO asked for permission.

 

I have the UAC off. There's no need for it unless you button mash and click randomly when you use an OS and you need the extra permissionary level of protection to save your OS from yourself. I do recommend leaving it off. If there are only 3rd party threats to having the UAC off, there are generic and caught by generic-level ware-protection like AntiVir.

I also turned most of the effects off. Not a big deal. I don't need my windows to slither into the start bar when I minimize them.

The only real nuissance I've had is that Vista has memory leak problems. While it seems hit or miss if your machine is effected by it especially if you have a lot of RAM, my 1 gb laptop has a lot of memory loss and needs to be restarted periodically. Also when Vista first came out, if you hibernated/slept your laptop, you'd lose wireless functionality with almost all drivers but that has been fixed.

I'd be fine with Vista if it wasn't for the memory problem.

 

You can put Vista back to the basics from the CP panel.