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Old February 26th, 2007, 07:58 AM

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Default Re: Unplayably slow on Vista?

This is mildly off topic, but can anyone tell me why I (basic internet, a few games, basic Excel and Word user) would have any desire to shift to Vista?
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Old February 26th, 2007, 08:54 AM
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Default Re: Unplayably slow on Vista?

I have work experience with Vista and my recommendation is to wait at least two to three years before upgrading to it. I know I won't be touching it until 2k9 which is when MS will stop support for win-XP. Maybe its just me, but I'd rather err on the side of safety, especially as I consider w2k to be the best MS OS to date.
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This is mildly off topic, but can anyone tell me why I (basic internet, a few games, basic Excel and Word user) would have any desire to shift to Vista?
None, the only advantage is DirectX 10 (no games will be using it exclusively for a few years) and some better security, but you will have to put up with some very frequent and annoying security popups.

The downside is a lot of untested new code and much higher computer demands (unless you disable aero and things like it).
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This is mildly off topic, but can anyone tell me why I (basic internet, a few games, basic Excel and Word user) would have any desire to shift to Vista?
Basically I think there is no reason for you to switch.

But that doesnt make Vista a bad idea. Vista is apparently an effort by Microsoft to move forward. It abandons much of its support for older windows versions, and adds many excellent programming hooks.

Eventually when programmers make use of the hooks it will create better programs and games to run on Vista. But for now it kindof sucks. It doesnt support whats available to us now. Every company needs to get new drivers out for video cards, sound cards, scanners, cameras, etc etc. And anything written for previous windows is apparently going to, at MOST, achieve the same performance but probably not better.

So until every driver and program gets a Vista version.. no I dont see alot of reason for anyone who isnt a guru to want to jump on Vista. IMHO
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