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Post by Urbz on Dec 4, 2006 11:01:37 GMT -5
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Post by bigjohno on Dec 4, 2006 20:21:40 GMT -5
Summary: Windows Vista... (Gaming) Pros: DirectX 10  WOOT! Gamer's dream; unbelievable visuals! Cons: You must have a directX 10 compatible GPU to use its full potential, and the cost for a card like that..  + huge memory hog |
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Post by bigjohno on Dec 4, 2006 20:43:48 GMT -5
Hey, it's no big deal... Just buy a $15,000 Falcon Northwest machine  |
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Post by Urbz on Jan 26, 2007 11:00:53 GMT -5
Users who put their faith in Vista's new security features and Microsoft's Windows Defender antispyware product may find themselves under attack from spyware all the same, according to the results of a study by Webroot, a leading antispyware vendor and Microsoft competitor. www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/25/HNdefenderattack_1.html |
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Post by Urbz on Jan 26, 2007 11:13:00 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Jan 30, 2007 19:05:45 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Jan 31, 2007 14:16:42 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Jan 31, 2007 15:25:24 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Feb 5, 2007 22:16:40 GMT -5
www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/05/confusion.to.aid.mac.os.x/From MacNN.com Microsoft's recently-released Windows Vista -- which some industry watchers claim to be a blatant copy of Apple's Mac OS X operating system -- could end up helping the Cupertino-based company accumulate market share. Digit reports that Microsoft is losing consumer operating system market share to Apple for numerous reasons, with complication serving as the primary factor. Microsoft chose to release a total of 10 versions of Windows Vista at launch, confusing customers and experts alike about the differences between the various editions. Upgrade versions of Vista are "poison," according to Digit, because the requirements for each edition vary and demand an existing installation of Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Users hoping to reinstall Windows Vista on a freshly-formatted hard drive are forced to install Windows twice, and future hardware configurations may fail to support Windows XP to render the Vista upgrade versions useless. What's more, users upgrading to Windows Vista are agreeing to no longer use the software they upgraded from, as stated in Microsoft Vista's End User License Agreement (EULA): "Upon upgrade, this agreement takes the place of the agreement for the software you upgraded from. After you upgrade, you may no longer use the software you upgraded from." Additionally, users who lost or were never provided with installation disks for their PCs are forced to purchase the more expensive Windows Vista full edition -- rather than simply upgrading -- once they reformat or otherwise remove their previous Windows installation.
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Post by Urbz on Feb 5, 2007 22:22:51 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Feb 6, 2007 15:11:28 GMT -5
Takeaway: The official consumer launch of Windows Vista has brought with it a great deal of confusion, misinformation, and some fairly ignorant assertions. Windows expert Deb Shinder debunks some of the misconceptions she's been hearing, from exaggerated cost and hardware requirements to feature limitations and compatibility issues. articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-6156413.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=tr |
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Post by bigjohno on Feb 6, 2007 19:35:51 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Feb 13, 2007 8:27:53 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Feb 22, 2007 22:03:20 GMT -5
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Post by gdi on Feb 26, 2007 11:53:48 GMT -5
"Best buy has over 16000 vista trained employees to help you get the pc you want, and geek squad can personalize it for you!"
I rofl every time I see this comercial...
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Post by bigjohno on Feb 26, 2007 16:25:04 GMT -5
LOL ;D
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Post by Urbz on Feb 28, 2007 9:22:13 GMT -5
www.jjmelo.com/blog/archives/24Heres the breakdown of the system (prices don't include tax) Motherboard: Intel BOXD945GCCRL - $72.45. DDR2 667 memory capable. SATA 300. PCI-E and enough room for expansion. Processor: Intel PENTIUM D 820 2.8GHZ - $88.9. Low-end, very fast and capable dual core processor. Memory: KINGSTON VALUE RAM KVR667D2N5/1G - $75.60. Two of these sticks for a total of 2 GB. Good memory. Reliable (so far for me) Video Card: MSI RX700SE-TD256E RADEONX700SE - $62.90. 256 Mb. DirectX 9.0. Plenty of power for everyday tasks and some light gaming. Hard Drive: WD 250GB WD2500KS - $67.50. SATA300. 16MB. 7200RPM. Fast. Reliable. Plenty of space. Case: ANTEC NSK4400. $61.05. Quality case. Plenty of room. Mini-ATX. 380-watt PSU Optical Drive: SAMSUNG 18X SH-S183L. $37.90. SATA. Dual layer. Lightscribe. Fast and no messy IDE cable. So there you have it. A very decent PC, built from quality parts, capable of running Vista (very well).
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Post by Urbz on Feb 28, 2007 9:25:59 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Feb 28, 2007 11:03:59 GMT -5
www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/27/vista.vs.productivity/A recent study suggests that Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system actually decreases the efficiency of creative users more than Windows XP, despite the Redmond-based company's efforts to offer a smoother interface that is easier to use.
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Post by Urbz on Feb 28, 2007 11:16:36 GMT -5
Can Best Buy lie any thicker? M$ has not even figured all of Vista out yet. Sheesh. Best Buy also lied during the sales of XBOX, Wii, and PS3.
BTW, CompUSA is closing 100+ stores in the US, including all SoCal stores except for Santa Barbara.
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Post by bigjohno on Feb 28, 2007 17:33:20 GMT -5
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Post by bigjohno on Mar 16, 2007 19:06:29 GMT -5
If you plug in a 'GamePad' (eg Xbox 360 controller) into Vista right now, it recognizes it as a sound device.
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Post by Urbz on Mar 27, 2007 21:08:33 GMT -5
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Post by gdi on Apr 9, 2007 12:31:50 GMT -5
"How To Transfer Data to Another Computer Using Windows Easy Transfer" LOL Windows Easy Transfer hahahahaha, get it? |
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Post by Urbz on May 14, 2007 14:58:02 GMT -5
A company that took its time, did everything right, and migrated to Vista recounted the full horror of the experience. The Transit company took the optimal path. They waited for the typical new release bugs to be worked out. They purchased a new PC from a major vendor, Lenovo, that had Vista pre-installed in order to avoid upgrade nightmares. Finally, they kept the installed software on the computer at a minimum to avoid complications. The verdict? "...we've found nothing that works better than in Windows XP, dozens of things that are annoyingly different without being a functional improvement, and several things that work at best intermittently and at worst not at all. On the whole, we wish we'd never moved," Angus Kidman said in a Blog report carried by ITWire. The first observation was that Vista was "hideously slow" even on a new Vista certified PC with twice the RAM and a faster processor. Boot times were longer than the predecesor. The connection to the Linksys router failed, and heroic support from Microsoft failed to resolve the problem. "...if you can't get basic IP working in 2007, something pretty fundamental is going wrong," Mr. Kidman wrote. Another irritating problem related to using a local file as an HTML home page. Mr. Kidman reported that this was hopeless effort with Vista, "...since Internet Explorer insists on launching any page in a new window because of a security restriction. As such, Vista has managed to convince us to ditch Internet Explorer after nine years and switch to Firefox, which doesn't indulge in such ridiculous behaviour, and seems to run faster as well." Finally, out of curiosity, Microsoft's Vista Upgrade Advisor was run. It reported that the computer didn't have enough drive space, even though Vista was preinstalled. And then it reported that the display and sound card "weren't certified for Vista. The third thing it told us was that none of the Lenovo utilities on the machine were Vista-ready. So much for certification." The bottom line was Microsoft should have worked harder to make Vista, "a dog," a bigger advance over Windows XP/SP2. www.macobserver.com/article/2007/05/14.9.shtml |
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Post by gdi on May 30, 2007 11:07:13 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Aug 30, 2007 13:46:58 GMT -5
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Post by Urbz on Sept 23, 2007 19:15:13 GMT -5
Microsoft is allowing OEM's to offer an XP downgrade option for computers with Windows Vista. This is probably a stop-gap measure until the release of Vista SP1, expected early 2008.
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Post by Urbz on Sept 29, 2007 11:44:23 GMT -5
www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/09/28/microsoft-told-abandon-vistaAccompanied by a picture of the Windows Vista Ultimate edition box labeled " The Microsoft albatross," writer Don Reisinger's piece entitled "Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself" begins "While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we've all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology."
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Post by Urbz on Sept 29, 2007 11:46:09 GMT -5
www.electronista.com/articles/07/09/28/ms.sells.xp.until.june.08/Microsoft will continue to sell both retail and OEM (pre-installed) copies of Windows XP for five months more than originally planned, the company announced today. Although plans would originally have dropped both versions from stores by January 2008, the new extension will remove the OS only by June 30th of that year -- nearly a year and a half after Windows Vista's January 2007 debut. The company officially justified the move by pointing out that many past versions of Windows were on sale for roughly two years after their replacements were available and that it was "a little ambitious" to drop XP in half the time, according to corporate VP for Windows product management Mike Nash. However, the executive also admitted that at least some customers were not ready to jump to Vista and that XP would be necessary for awhile longer.
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WOOT! Gamer's dream; unbelievable visuals!
+ huge memory hog