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Windows Vista: worth the money?
nihilist:
The problem with Vista is that it hasn't hit consumer availability yet, which means that some companies haven't got release drivers out yet (I'm looking at nVidia here). Worse yet are the applications that haven't been modified to work on it, which is utterly nuts, given the fact that it has been in development for a damn long time. The biggest offender of this is EvenBalance/PunkBuster (anti-cheat protection for games, in my case Battlefield 2142). If you try to play 2142 under Vista, the game will crap out after five minutes, because PunkBuster believes that running games on Vista means you are cheating. Beyond weak.
the_tard:
^ Gaaah!! No! My precious BF!
8ilbo:
Given its ?140 for ultimate plus at least ?70 for some more RAM...I'm going to leave it till I get it free on the MSDN Academic Alliance....by which time they will have hopefully ironed out most of the bugs...
I mucked around on the beta for a bit, but never really got to use it properly (thanks to a dodgy four way putting my computer out of action for a month)...the little I did use of it didn't wow me that much...
Hell I might just roll back to 2000 pro :roll: ....
Come to think of it, if I'm depressed enough I have an ME disk taunting me somewhere....
elcapitan:
In its current state, I will not pay money for this. It's as simple as that.
The Cosmic Fool:
If you just like the look and feel of Vista, you can spend a bit of time and patience altering XP to look like Vista. It's not overly difficult.
You can use StyleXP or WindowBlinds to give you the Start Menu and Explorer interface. You can use Styler to alter the Explorer icons to look identical to Vista's. You can use Samurize to simulate the side bar with all the widgets. And if you look around, the Vista system sounds have been leaked at various websites. And bootscreens aren't hard to find either.
Resource intensive? True. More than actually putting Vista on your system I bet though. And no hassle with driver conflicts. No spending $400 on Ultimate.
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