extremetech.com— A nice look at what you should buy if you have to get a system now and can't wait for Vista. Decent advice as well as depth to some of the features we've been promised
Jan 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
olegk: You sound like you've met my friend, Corporate American, before. I'm pretty sure that with the ever-decreasing cost of PC components, a $500 machine will be more than enough to run Vista for an office environment.letmereplynow: I don't know about being an idiot, as ExtremeTech does have some good articles. That being said, the key is that they are ExtremeTech (kind of like MaximumPC Mag, etc.). They're shtick is to spec out really high end, say Extreme even, components. No one reads their articles to find cheap, bare minimum machines.
What would a corporate user need shadows and translucent windows for? Vista is such a waste of time (and a clone of features that have been in OS X for five years now...all those years of mocking Mac users, and now all the sudden the same features are wanted by Windows users, and you wonder why Mac users are defensive and elitist?).
Here is a reality statement: I will buy Vista because I can afford it, and I can afford the hardware needed to run it. I always look forward to new versions of Windows. I've been using it since 3.x. I don't want or need a Linux or Apple machine. (I wouldn't mind an Apple machine for multimedia work though.)---------------Those of you who are worried about Vista needing more memory should simply stick to the old stuff, or (laff) switch to Linux. It seems that some people, when faced with the reality of upgrades actually costing money, like to start bitching. You whine about Windows needing more features and a prettier GUI, but when this equates to more memory use, you cry about that as well. Do you REALLY expect Vista to use the same or less RAM than XP? If you don't care for a nicer GUI, or the other new features in Vista, set your XP machine to "Windows Classic" theme and rock on, you rebel, you.At this point, I don't think anyone "needs" to switch to Vista. You can ride XP all the way into the ground if you want. Hell I know people still running Windows 2000. lol
"All of this ignores that Vista does, in fact, have a number of significant improvements over XP. Improved search, Shell, networking, security (including built in antivirus), speech recognition, media capabilities, etc."Proof? Metrics?
super_structureJan 23, 2006
olegk: You sound like you've met my friend, Corporate American, before. I'm pretty sure that with the ever-decreasing cost of PC components, a $500 machine will be more than enough to run Vista for an office environment.letmereplynow: I don't know about being an idiot, as ExtremeTech does have some good articles. That being said, the key is that they are ExtremeTech (kind of like MaximumPC Mag, etc.). They're shtick is to spec out really high end, say Extreme even, components. No one reads their articles to find cheap, bare minimum machines.
theschlesJan 23, 2006
What about laptops? Will a Centrino cut it? ExtremeTech didn't even talk about those...
Closed AccountJan 23, 2006
What would a corporate user need shadows and translucent windows for? Vista is such a waste of time (and a clone of features that have been in OS X for five years now...all those years of mocking Mac users, and now all the sudden the same features are wanted by Windows users, and you wonder why Mac users are defensive and elitist?).
mindtriggerJan 23, 2006
Here is a reality statement: I will buy Vista because I can afford it, and I can afford the hardware needed to run it. I always look forward to new versions of Windows. I've been using it since 3.x. I don't want or need a Linux or Apple machine. (I wouldn't mind an Apple machine for multimedia work though.)---------------Those of you who are worried about Vista needing more memory should simply stick to the old stuff, or (laff) switch to Linux. It seems that some people, when faced with the reality of upgrades actually costing money, like to start bitching. You whine about Windows needing more features and a prettier GUI, but when this equates to more memory use, you cry about that as well. Do you REALLY expect Vista to use the same or less RAM than XP? If you don't care for a nicer GUI, or the other new features in Vista, set your XP machine to "Windows Classic" theme and rock on, you rebel, you.At this point, I don't think anyone "needs" to switch to Vista. You can ride XP all the way into the ground if you want. Hell I know people still running Windows 2000. lol
deepsubJan 25, 2006
"All of this ignores that Vista does, in fact, have a number of significant improvements over XP. Improved search, Shell, networking, security (including built in antivirus), speech recognition, media capabilities, etc."Proof? Metrics?