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Windows Vista, anyone got an opinion on it, just curious.

Mac mac mac mac mac mac mac mac mac mac mac mac did i mention that Macs are good?


I've not tried Vista yet, but will try and get an msdn/eval off the desktop team to give it a try.

Dan

Macs are the devil's poo shaped and baked into fancy schmancy computers. :P

:lol:

Vista... Well, I'll probably get it when I can't run anything without it (chose the bug option tho). :lol:

Macs everytime

Avoid Vista until at least SP1

This work laptop I am using has it on it, one of my laptops has it on it (experiment) and my main PC at home had it on it (other non-mains run Debian Linux)

I removed Vista from my main PC (actually my gaming rig) because it

a) Didnt have SLi (using 2 GFX cards at once) support

b) The changes Microsoft made will make drivers VERY hard to write for manufacturers - accelerated audio (a major feature of Creative sound cards) is impossible now.

c) Wierd anomalies in the file level security system - installing an update for World of Warcraft failed because it didnt have permission to put a shortcut on the Start menu - knowing what I was doing I just went to the relevent folder and gave permission for anyone (or thing) to make changes to that folder - "fixing" the problem, but breaking the system security (tho not a very high risk breach :P)

Stick with XP for the moment unless you are testing/evaluating and have another XP machine to fall back to.

David

Macs are very good for protection against inclement conditions but so are windows which are also good for display - macs have to be opened for this purpose, but that can often offend :shock:

Windows 3.11 for the win!

a bit confused with what each version contains.

prices though don't look that bad! I checked on www.microdirect.co.uk

I'll do the same as did with xp...

Avoid using it till I really have to, as I don't see the point while I have a Linux PC and Linux Laptop. Hopefully there will update my work laptop with it, but that won't be for ages due to the way companies work.

Also If I did want to put it on anything I'll probably need a new pc, stuff that.

That would be the OEM price.

The retail price is 328.99 inc VAT


You could buy a PC for that and put linux/bsd, etc on it.

Dan