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Weird vista problem
0bsessions:
--- Quote from: Siert on 03 May 2008, 16:56 ---To continue this little bit. I have a friend who blames every single fault on Vista (He has a laptop with 512 RAm, its split into three partisans. (40 Gig each), and has a total of 572 megabytes of hard drive left free, and still blames vista... Thats ignoring all the illegal software, viruses, fault antivirus software.
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/headdesk
Yeah, that's essentially what I meant. It's not just computer illiterate consumers, either. Manufacturers are bundling it with machines that have absolutely no business running a brand new OS. You shouldn't be running it on anything less than a 2.0 ghz machine with a gig of RAM.
Siert:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 03 May 2008, 16:59 ---Yeah, that's essentially what I meant. It's not just computer illiterate consumers, either. Manufacturers are bundling it with machines that have absolutely no business running a brand new OS. You shouldn't be running it on anything less than a 2.0 ghz machine with a gig of RAM.
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You have no idea how frustrating it gets, he even went to my dad asking for help and my dad instantly replied. "Fresh computer, rip it all out, clean it, get rid of all that gunk, you have all this illegal software, which is infested with viruses *Here he does a Task manager check, revealing a "Passive" program taking up 100 MB. He also has bit torrent (I'm sorry the thing has so many viruses infesting files its just a no-go, like all file-shares.) So as soon as my dad gives him the rundown, telling him what he needs done.
"I know for a fact I have no viruses". That is what he said to me instantly after my dad left the room and I was enjoying some Xbox360. He then continued with "Its just fucking Vista being the bitch it is"
This guy is a Computer Science student just finished his second year, and is so nieve about the internet, illegal software and viruses I just want to do the exact same thing you do regularly, until I black out, and then some.
0bsessions:
That makes no sense to me. My computer is actually LOWER than that (Only a 2.0 Ghz dual core) and it STILL cooks with Vista. Is she running an assload of superfluous processes or something?
I'm currently running Firefox (Four open tabs), six widgets, Pidgin and Windows Media Center running my TV tuner card and I'm only using about 17% of my processor and about 58% of my RAM. I'd be using closer to 10% and 40% if I closed the TV tuner. The system requirements are not the slightest bit unreasonable. Two gigs of RAM and a decent processor are all you really need and that's not something that'll break the bank. I spent a grand total of $600 (Not counting the monitor) putting together a system that runs Vista seamlessly.
The widgits can EASILY be turned off if you don't want them, though I like them. They make for nice, quick access to some consistently useful items (I have a notebad and calculator I use constantly, as well as a weather forecast and CPU usage widgit that come in handy).
Siert:
I just turned widgets off to be honest I used to have them but noticed they actually covered up part of my awesome desktop. XP is better than Vista for speed and efficiency, but Vista has a lot of little additions quirks and such which I think makes it more enjoyable, although it was made for accessability (Which it suceeds at , since my mother is now using a computer). This debate can continue, it has been proven that XP is better than Vista, I won't argue about that, but I am just going to add my final point on that debate by saying I prefer Vista over XP due to it running smoothly and has given me no reason to think otherwise.
Storm Rider:
I also have had pretty much no problems with Vista at all. I really don't understand why people bitch about it so much, other than the obligatory Microsoft hatred.
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