15.05.2008, 08:30
"OMGZ, Vista sucks"....mantra of the OS illiterate!
It's unstable!.
Not from what I can tell, and with SP1 it is the most stable OS I've seen since Win 3.11.
Nothing uses DX10.
Oh really? Try FSX with DX10 and you will sing another song.
It uses a lot of memory.
With this they ARE correct, but said by people that are ignorant as to HOW Vista uses memory. I have 8GB of memory and my Vista Ultimate 64 install just sitting idle uses almost 4GB of that, and I couldn't be happier that it's doing that!
"WHY?", you ask?. Simple, it's called SUPERFETCH. Read up on it. Basically, it keeps track of what applications you run the most, and pre-loads them into memory. That way they load MUCH faster than going to the HDD, and bringing them into memory. Now, if you use an application the needs the memory that Vista is using for SUPERFETCH, no problem, it releases it instantly, and you never know that it happened.
If you don't have a lot of memory, and I'd recommend at least 4GB of memory for Vista, you can use a Flash Drive in READYBOOST to help out. I've tested that only using 2GB, and it works quite well.
Yeah, Vista has a few things that I didn't like, but I've managed to get around them.
UAC is the major one. However, you can disable that in about 1 minute. Just open up Help & Support, Type UAC in the search box, and follow the instructions on how to turn it off. That will allow you to edit files (conf.ini), if you want to without a problem.
Another gripe was that even as Administrator, I couldn't open some folders, as I didn't have 'Ownership". No problem, there is a Registry fix for that, which allows you to take ownership of any file/folder that you wish. Google is your friend for that.
I've been using/programming computers since the IBM 360 mod 20 (1968), so I'm not exactly "Computer illiterate".
I just can't understand why you would want to have a 64-bit processor, and then cripple it with a 32-bit OS. Hell, that's like buying a convertable, and then disabling the folding mechinism for the top.
Same thing with having a lot of memory, and then complaining because the OS uses it.
Oh, I do still have an XP 32 bit OS on my system, but that's only because the wife has a geneology program that won't run on 64-bit, and you have to keep the 'better half' happy, or nobody is happy, but my other ones are, 3 XP x64, 2 Vista 64, and 1 Server 2008 beta. I'll soon be changing the XP x64 ones over to Vista as I have the time. I manage all of those OSs with HyperOS.
Edit:
... "The 8800GTX 768, still the single fastest card for high resolution gaming out there" ...
I think you will find that there are a lot of 3870 X2 owners that will dispute that. Or, are you one of those folks that think only nVidia makes vid cards?
It's unstable!.
Not from what I can tell, and with SP1 it is the most stable OS I've seen since Win 3.11.
Nothing uses DX10.
Oh really? Try FSX with DX10 and you will sing another song.
It uses a lot of memory.
With this they ARE correct, but said by people that are ignorant as to HOW Vista uses memory. I have 8GB of memory and my Vista Ultimate 64 install just sitting idle uses almost 4GB of that, and I couldn't be happier that it's doing that!
"WHY?", you ask?. Simple, it's called SUPERFETCH. Read up on it. Basically, it keeps track of what applications you run the most, and pre-loads them into memory. That way they load MUCH faster than going to the HDD, and bringing them into memory. Now, if you use an application the needs the memory that Vista is using for SUPERFETCH, no problem, it releases it instantly, and you never know that it happened.
If you don't have a lot of memory, and I'd recommend at least 4GB of memory for Vista, you can use a Flash Drive in READYBOOST to help out. I've tested that only using 2GB, and it works quite well.
Yeah, Vista has a few things that I didn't like, but I've managed to get around them.
UAC is the major one. However, you can disable that in about 1 minute. Just open up Help & Support, Type UAC in the search box, and follow the instructions on how to turn it off. That will allow you to edit files (conf.ini), if you want to without a problem.
Another gripe was that even as Administrator, I couldn't open some folders, as I didn't have 'Ownership". No problem, there is a Registry fix for that, which allows you to take ownership of any file/folder that you wish. Google is your friend for that.
I've been using/programming computers since the IBM 360 mod 20 (1968), so I'm not exactly "Computer illiterate".
I just can't understand why you would want to have a 64-bit processor, and then cripple it with a 32-bit OS. Hell, that's like buying a convertable, and then disabling the folding mechinism for the top.
Same thing with having a lot of memory, and then complaining because the OS uses it.
Oh, I do still have an XP 32 bit OS on my system, but that's only because the wife has a geneology program that won't run on 64-bit, and you have to keep the 'better half' happy, or nobody is happy, but my other ones are, 3 XP x64, 2 Vista 64, and 1 Server 2008 beta. I'll soon be changing the XP x64 ones over to Vista as I have the time. I manage all of those OSs with HyperOS.
Edit:
... "The 8800GTX 768, still the single fastest card for high resolution gaming out there" ...
I think you will find that there are a lot of 3870 X2 owners that will dispute that. Or, are you one of those folks that think only nVidia makes vid cards?