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- MCA2142, on 11/16/2008, -5/+37Because technology never evolves over time?
"This Ferrari better have a way of attaching the front bumper to a couple of horses, or it will never sell." - gaqua, on 11/16/2008, -6/+36I have walked by an Apple store and it's all overpriced shiny metal crap
Seriously what the *****? If you've only used Vista for 15-20 minutes you have no idea what the ***** you're talking about.
It's not perfect but it's capable, and for 64-bit it kicks the ***** out of XP64. - craeyon, on 11/16/2008, -4/+28shame
- ReaXan, on 11/16/2008, -2/+24the Intel GMA 950 is ok for the masses, but it was still generations behind than were it should have been when Vista came out. The 3000 and 3100 is actually a big step up from Intel after they realized how bad the 950 really was. The 3000 is good for Vista and can run Source games ok, it's just 2 years two late.
Overall AMD/ATI's Intergrated Graphics Solutions were almost always better despite Intel being the better CPU maker. - L0NER, on 11/16/2008, -13/+28Its time for Balmer to go
- SubjectiveC, on 11/16/2008, -5/+16See, Intel can be evil, too.
- craeyon, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9obvious troll is obvious
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9I used a Mac for about an hour. I like the aluminum foil and faggy Steve Jobs pictures, but it's gay. I think I'll go back to Ubuntu because all Apple products are overpriced and you can't even play games on them. I like using FCP on a Mac, but for surfing the internet: Ubuntu or Vista.
Yep. - fumar, on 11/16/2008, -0/+7I hate to mention this but, the inquirer.net called this when the final vista specs came out. It was hard not to believe it then since it made such sense that Microsoft would lower their specs so Intel's integrated GPUs could be used for Vista.
- WiskyDrinker, on 11/16/2008, -3/+9This is old news? I remember reading this at least 3 or 4 months ago on digg.. If not longer.... I can't remember the details.. Has anything changed since?
- MSP1, on 11/16/2008, -1/+7Rubbish! We should expect there to be a form of Moore's law for software. New software should run better on existing hardware because developers should have got better at writing it efficiently. This always happens when I rewrite an application. Why should we nor expect the same of Microsoft? It's not as if MS code is the pinnacle of efficiency in the first place. The cycle of new software requires new hardware needs to be broken so that we can actually get the benefit of new hardware.The speed of Office applications on my current hardware is pretty much the same as that of old versions on old hardware 15 years ago. This is ridiculous. As for your stupid Ferrari line. Windows is a mass market Ford, not a Ferrari. Once you have made a mass market car do the speed limit there is no point in using valuable resources just to make it use extra fuel to go faster.
- Nimroy, on 11/16/2008, -1/+5It doesn't
The word of the day is - scalability. - Genma, on 11/16/2008, -0/+4longer, it's real old news. not surprising anyway, all major hardware vendors got devs in their pockets at all times. they been using each other to drive the market since the beginning, whoever is leading will make whatever deals they can get away with to lock users in. look at the video game industry, same thing it's common practice.
- pintomp3, on 11/16/2008, -0/+4950 could run aero, but just barely. it felt like you were using an old machine. going to 3000 and 3100 make for a much better aero experience. i'm curious to see how new 4500 will perform.
- benologist, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3The bad news is the 950 will still be in laptops for years to come.
- doodersrage, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3Is this a surprise, really?
- Greg2k, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3Yeah, it also searches for strings such as "MyBabyMan" and "XKCD"
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -11/+13It's time for Steve Jobs to go...
But the cancer's doing it - craeyon, on 11/16/2008, -2/+4there are a lot more variables to be considered. The script is not dumb when it pulls articles out of the database and posts it on the front page.
- linuxlucas, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2For anyone who cares for some culture, that's actually (I presume) Carol of the Bells, by Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych. The carol is nice, but the solo piano transcription is brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gp5Vd44AJQ not the best version, but pretty damn good. - inactive, on 11/16/2008, -2/+4It runs ok for most things that was my point. XP orignal came out about the same time as 1Gig Pentiums came out and most had 256MB, But if you tried doing enything more taxing than browsing the web it was pretty slow. Same as vista is on 3 to 4 year old Tech.
As for the interface XP was quite a jump there to from 98 to Luna. - deadbaby, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3Technology may evolve but people's buying habits don't. A lot of people go out and buy low end machines because they're cheap. These days that means people are buying up netbooks that are slower than most desktops/laptops being sold 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe they'll splurge and go for the $600 laptop which is probably short on RAM, has slow disk IO, and uses integrated graphics.
Microsoft needs to be able to figure out how to make Windows scalable enough that it can run on a $300 netbook or a $3000 high end workstation. If they can't, they're in trouble. As it stands now these OEMs are definitely not happy giving Microsoft 20-30% of the sticker price for a Windows license. They're not going to give up their narrow profit margin to meet higher specs. They will use Linux instead and offer Windows only for the higher end models. (as HP and others are doing now) - zeebo, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3My work machine came with Vista pre-installed. I tried to give it a fair shot, I used it for a week. The graphical glitz was nice, but it had problems with the multi-head setup, it was slow, and its UI was awkward and limiting, lacking certain basic functionality that I can't live without.
So I upgraded to Ubuntu and have been much happier ever since. - PhillyMJS, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2What I found interesting was that HP, which spent the money to develop products with beefed up graphics that could actually handle Aero, was pissed that they were going to be caught without a cheap, low-end product to sell after the requirements were relaxed.
I assume that as part of some licensing agreement with Microsoft and/or Intel, HP couldn't point out that their competitors' low-end PCs would not do Aero as well as HP's PCs? That's the only reason I can think of that HP would just sulk about the situation, instead of immediately throwing money at an ad campaign to promote their more capable products over Dell's and Sony's. - TPorter72, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3Developers?
- scootinger, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3I think you forgot about several "Games For Windows" games (such as "Halo 2 for Windows Vista") where they added a ***** Vista requirement in order to boost sales of their crappy OS.
- Zippo, on 11/16/2008, -1/+3But then who will we make fun of?
- martrinex, on 11/16/2008, -2/+3"#1 either have never used vista in the first place. #2 Tried to install it on a 4 year old computer and expected it to run like XP?"
I installed Vista when it first came out and on to a specifically built computer... I have used it for the last few years and hate it so much what I use my older computer with XP and keep Vista just for media center.
Maybe some of us hate it because it 1. provides nothing new, 2. takes up 20 times more space, 3. takes up too much RAM, 4. aero just looks crap and 5. moved and renamed everything just for the hell of it. - p3ngwin, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1this kind of close "help" that MS and Intel marketing give each other is the reason why the tech insustry is so tangled.
can you imagine the tech landscape if all other companies lie AMD, VIA,hardware makers, software makers,etc got equal "help"
what a wonderful world it would be :)
intel and MS engineers are amazing people.... the marketing depts though are slimy bastards. - fucknuggets, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1you seem not to understand the "Its a trap" meme.
- MisteryMeat, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Sarcasm? They have a shady history in the PC industry, nothing new here.
- daveisfera, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Ya, I remember reading about this quite some time ago.
- MCA2142, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1@Deadbaby,
Technology and performance evolves for cheap components too. - ortucis, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1So you are basically agreeing with the OP?
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1If you are infact running an original copy of XP (No SP'S) on a pentium 3 with 256MB of ram and say it runs perfect them you are one of very few.
Vista isnt perfect and it was released to market too soon but half of the horror stories going around these days are just based on myth. - inactive, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1Oh and you can play games on a linux machine... riiight
It´s idiotic to assume that one OS is perfect for every job out there. - jordn, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1Obvious troll is once again obvious
- hairysandwich, on 11/16/2008, -2/+0This is a useless post. You might as well have just said "I hates vista too!"
- ReaXan, on 11/16/2008, -4/+2
Fred came rushing in to his Dad. "Dad!" he puffed, "is it true that an Apple a day keeps the doctor away?"
"That's what they say," said his Dad.
"Well, give me an Apple quick ? I've just broken the doctor's Window!" - shrewduser, on 11/16/2008, -9/+6shh, don't say that here, digg is like the intellectually poor mans slashdot, here linux is a mysteriously complex thing that we can't get to work right and windows is all we can stand to use....
- redbluebird, on 11/16/2008, -7/+3RTFA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -9/+4The Intel GMA 965 Express chipset with X3100 integrated video can barely run Aero glass properly. Who cares anyway, I use GNU/Linux and don't have to suffer the indignity of having a PCs performance cut in half.
- fauxXenophanes, on 11/16/2008, -8/+3The only reason to upgrade from XP was the new look - it certainly wasn't compatibility, of any kind.
- snikethan, on 11/16/2008, -6/+1it's the right thing to say.....
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