Comments on: Give Vista a Break… http://www.philoking.com/2007/09/27/give-vista-a-break/ Computing for the OS Agnostic Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maarten Kooiker http://www.philoking.com/2007/09/27/give-vista-a-break/comment-page-1/#comment-14477 Maarten Kooiker Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:07:57 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2007/09/27/give-vista-a-break/#comment-14477 Don't blame Windows for the lack of drivers? That's the exact reason that many people are complaining about Linux (and it is a weak point of Linux at this moment I think), so I think it is quite justified to blame windows for the same mistake. Further, if you want the same performance (let's say the aereo visual eye-candy stuff) you manage to do that with a linux distribution which requires only 256Mb of RAM, unlike the 1 Gb Vista wants. So in the end you will have to pay less both for the software AND the hardware to obtain the same performance! want to check it out? just check my blog! <small><em>Editor's Note: Sometimes to move forward, you have to break existing connections to older, poorer architectures. Windows is making a clean break from some of the severely legacy hardware and I for one am all for it. Now if we could get them to ditch 16 bit Windows apps too. Linux is great and I use Fedora 7 personally and love it, I also use a Macbook Pro with OS X also. I am saying that Vista is a good operating system. You don't bitch that your Nintendo Wii doesn't play your old NES cartridges. Sometimes you have to move forward at the expense of legacy equiment. Why does everyone assume that if you release a new operating system, a requirement is that it is able to perform well on crap hardware. Who says everyone HAS to upgrade to Vista???</em></small> Don’t blame Windows for the lack of drivers? That’s the exact reason that many people are complaining about Linux (and it is a weak point of Linux at this moment I think), so I think it is quite justified to blame windows for the same mistake.
Further, if you want the same performance (let’s say the aereo visual eye-candy stuff) you manage to do that with a linux distribution which requires only 256Mb of RAM, unlike the 1 Gb Vista wants. So in the end you will have to pay less both for the software AND the hardware to obtain the same performance! want to check it out? just check my blog!
Editor’s Note: Sometimes to move forward, you have to break existing connections to older, poorer architectures. Windows is making a clean break from some of the severely legacy hardware and I for one am all for it. Now if we could get them to ditch 16 bit Windows apps too. Linux is great and I use Fedora 7 personally and love it, I also use a Macbook Pro with OS X also. I am saying that Vista is a good operating system. You don’t bitch that your Nintendo Wii doesn’t play your old NES cartridges. Sometimes you have to move forward at the expense of legacy equiment. Why does everyone assume that if you release a new operating system, a requirement is that it is able to perform well on crap hardware. Who says everyone HAS to upgrade to Vista???

]]> By: Joseph Crawford http://www.philoking.com/2007/09/27/give-vista-a-break/comment-page-1/#comment-14475 Joseph Crawford Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:54:24 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2007/09/27/give-vista-a-break/#comment-14475 I used Windows based PC's for 12 years before switching to the Mac platform and I never would have switched before OS X. All I have to say is that we bought a new Dell laptop with Windows Vista Home or whatever they call that version (they have way too many versions). When I first laid hands on this it was the slowest machine I had ever seen with Windows. I had to disable EVERYTHING when it came to the eye candy. Once I disabled all of that it was ok, it moves at an alright pace, not snappy by any means. We have 1 GB of ram in that laptop and one would think that would be enough. I guess if you are going to buy a Vista based machine you better get at-least 2 GB of ram. As for the price point yes MS makes it cost effective when you buy a new machine. Maybe with Vista that's what they wanted to push was the purchase of a new machine. However WHY should you HAVE to buy a new machine that is VISTA CERTIFIED? Oh how dare you call windows versions flavors :) I used Windows based PC’s for 12 years before switching to the Mac platform and I never would have switched before OS X.

All I have to say is that we bought a new Dell laptop with Windows Vista Home or whatever they call that version (they have way too many versions).

When I first laid hands on this it was the slowest machine I had ever seen with Windows. I had to disable EVERYTHING when it came to the eye candy. Once I disabled all of that it was ok, it moves at an alright pace, not snappy by any means. We have 1 GB of ram in that laptop and one would think that would be enough. I guess if you are going to buy a Vista based machine you better get at-least 2 GB of ram.

As for the price point yes MS makes it cost effective when you buy a new machine. Maybe with Vista that’s what they wanted to push was the purchase of a new machine. However WHY should you HAVE to buy a new machine that is VISTA CERTIFIED?

Oh how dare you call windows versions flavors :)

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