smh.com.au— One executive, Mike Nash, complained he was "burned" so badly by compatibility issues he was left with "a $2100 email machine".
Mar 25, 2008View in Crawl 4
Can you explain to me (other then video games, which I don't really care for anyway) what exactly I can not do with my current computer? I mean, I've been trying very hard to figure it out, but I do development (Eclipse), image editing (GIMP), even some 3d modeling (Blender). All work fine.People forget that 10 years ago, computers which had 8MB or 16MB of RAM were not that uncommon. And yet people still did all of the above. This computer upgrade treadmill is pretty much a sham to get people to spend more and more money on hardware, it helps create tons of toxic waste in our landfills. Buy new computers to do the things you've always been doing. Software that is purposefully made resource intensive to please the main customers of Windows (the OEMs).
Now, are you counting application crashes or operating system crashes? Because SKYPE != Mac...The only thing I have on my Linux box crashing is firefox.. *gasp* but it's certain websites that do it.. but it goes down fast and I can reload it fast.. doesn't hang my system.
@GliTCH82No, most people just turn off all those damn security prompts, something corporate policy wont let me do on these boxes. Because Areo is so sluggish it can take 20 to 30 seconds for each prompt to even come up and then another 10 to 20 seconds to clear after it's been clicked. Multiply that times close to a dozen security prompts and you have 10 to 20 minutes of waiting for the sluggish OS to respond for what SHOULD be a less than a minute's work.
Only this time they left out the part about how they defrauded people on the "Vista Capabable" and "Vista Ready" programs at Intel and other chain partners insistence so they could meet their end of year quotas on obsolete hardware like the 815 graphics chip.
I love the "Vista is a memory hog" comments coming from a day in age where 2 Gigs of RAM is like 50 dollars now. Quit your freakin paper route and get a real job where 50 dollars doesn't make you run to DIGG and start crying about it.
Funny, who would have thought? Even the damn big wigs can't get it to work properly. I haven't made the jump to Vista. I have a machine that could handle it, but XP works fine. I just don't understand why they don't just keep making what they have better.
sirhomerMar 27, 2008
Can you explain to me (other then video games, which I don't really care for anyway) what exactly I can not do with my current computer? I mean, I've been trying very hard to figure it out, but I do development (Eclipse), image editing (GIMP), even some 3d modeling (Blender). All work fine.People forget that 10 years ago, computers which had 8MB or 16MB of RAM were not that uncommon. And yet people still did all of the above. This computer upgrade treadmill is pretty much a sham to get people to spend more and more money on hardware, it helps create tons of toxic waste in our landfills. Buy new computers to do the things you've always been doing. Software that is purposefully made resource intensive to please the main customers of Windows (the OEMs).
yacksMar 27, 2008
Now, are you counting application crashes or operating system crashes? Because SKYPE != Mac...The only thing I have on my Linux box crashing is firefox.. *gasp* but it's certain websites that do it.. but it goes down fast and I can reload it fast.. doesn't hang my system.
bulkhaterMar 27, 2008
@GliTCH82No, most people just turn off all those damn security prompts, something corporate policy wont let me do on these boxes. Because Areo is so sluggish it can take 20 to 30 seconds for each prompt to even come up and then another 10 to 20 seconds to clear after it's been clicked. Multiply that times close to a dozen security prompts and you have 10 to 20 minutes of waiting for the sluggish OS to respond for what SHOULD be a less than a minute's work.
beylanMar 28, 2008
Only this time they left out the part about how they defrauded people on the "Vista Capabable" and "Vista Ready" programs at Intel and other chain partners insistence so they could meet their end of year quotas on obsolete hardware like the 815 graphics chip.
tendonutMar 28, 2008
You clearly missed my point. I am trying to use NEW hardware with OLD software...assh**e..
zezerikMar 28, 2008
I love the "Vista is a memory hog" comments coming from a day in age where 2 Gigs of RAM is like 50 dollars now. Quit your freakin paper route and get a real job where 50 dollars doesn't make you run to DIGG and start crying about it.
chrisdangerMar 31, 2008
Funny, who would have thought? Even the damn big wigs can't get it to work properly. I haven't made the jump to Vista. I have a machine that could handle it, but XP works fine. I just don't understand why they don't just keep making what they have better.
vikingscoolFeb 5, 2010
Mike Nash is already leaving Microsoft. Check for google news.