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Old 01-30-2007, 11:50 PM
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Windows Vista?

OK fellas, what has everyone heard about the new Windows program? good? bad? lemme hear it!
Old 01-31-2007, 06:41 AM
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The demo I watched at Best Buy was pretty cool. Of course, it was the ultimate edition and was demoed on a new HP with a huge touch screen.

From what I read, it is a memory hog. You can get by with 1 gig when using the lower end versions, but need at least 2 gig for the more advanced versions. Also, as with any OS, the faster your processor, the better.
Old 01-31-2007, 07:29 AM
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The Vista that was just release is the consumer version. Still working on the 32/64 enterprise version. And so far I'm not very impressed. MS added a lot of fluff.
Personally I'm sticking with XP Pro SP2 until they make me upgrade.

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Old 01-31-2007, 08:00 AM
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I might upgrade, but I just went to XP about 2 weeks ago, so I want to get used to it first!

I did make sure my new system would handle Vista though...this thing screams
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Old 01-31-2007, 08:14 AM
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Exclamation NO>>Just say NO

you might not want to get it yet .It has a LOT of holes that hackers can exploit ..might want to wait a while till they get the bugs out...

Like most things...NEW= potential problems. BM
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i ran it for a little while. as mentioned, it is a memory hog. made my 512 RAM laptop a little too sluggish for me. it had some neat stuff though. it kinda reminded me of a MAC/LINUX interface, with lots of little animated things that you dont really need, but look cool all the same.

i ended up formatting the partition i had it on to freespace for some movies
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I think Dell is shipping it with as little as 512 ram, so I guess it is at least satisfactory on that. Watching to see how people like it before I jump in. Sounds good - - I have 2 gig ram and dual core Intel so that shouldn't be a problem.
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It's just a very pretty, resource intesive Windows XP "upgrade".
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I think I'll stick with XP at least until Vista SP1 comes out
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