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Windows Vista: worth the money?
nihilist:
Vista is very smooth with the graphics, because it is all native 3D stuff. Offloads to the GPU, so it is much faster eye candy.
Again, Vista is pretty sweet, but until the drivers hit, and the apps are updated, I can't do it. I suspect by the middle of the year all will be well, though. Especially since it is projected to have over 100 million users by the end of this year.
est:
I don't understand the doomsayers on this. Heather was running Vista a while back and apart from a few driver/app incompatibilities as Mike says, it worked just fine. You can make it look and behave remarkably like Windows XP or even 2k with just a little tweaking. I'm gonna do my usual for OSes, which is wait about 6mths from release, download & install it & turn off any "features" I don't like. I should have the money to upgrade my hardware by then, so maybe I'll do it all as one big "OMG NEW PC" ritual this year.
nihilist:
My PC is now a whole one year old. I'd love to do the new PC thing, but I'm sure I can find other things to do with my cash. However, I agree with the six month waiting thing.
8ilbo:
On a related note....
"Windows XP ProN"
mmmmm....
I'm not too keen on the eye candy - I don't tweak my hardware much, so I try to get as much performance as possible by minimising background processes....and seeing as I spend most of my time when I'm not gaming using Firefox, I see no reason to make the rest of the Windows desktop pretty.
nihilist:
I actually got a theme that minimizes how big the titlebars and stuff are. I hate having them waste space.
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