On Jan 17, 2008 9:38 AM, Gil Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Vista Ultimate with the MSDN subscription, and have a 2gb RAM, P4 > 2800 PC dual booting between 2000 Pro and Vista. I will play with Vista > once in a while, but after a while the UAC had to be turned off, thus > defeating the "new and improved security" from M$. I saw no advantage for > me with Vista other than the eye candy. Then again, I likely did not give > it the cance it may deserve. But, on the "third hand", with the specs of > the PC I ought not have seen the degradation in performance experienced > under Vista. Both XP Pro and 2000 Pro run far faster on similar hardware > specs. For me the eye candy is not worth the performance degradation. > > Perhaps in 2-3 years I will be less resistive to Vista, when PCs start > having 4gb RAM available to help handle Vista overhead demands. I went > through the same thing with XP at first. I stayed on 2000 Pro as long as > I > cound, and by the time XP SP1 had been out a while, just before SP2 hit, I > began to move into the World of XP, and beefed all my PCs to 2gb RAM (they > were all 512mg before). But, for now I am solidly in the XP Pro camp, and > will wait for Vista to mature a bit more before drinking the Vista > Koolaid. > That said, my VFP apps were able to run without any modifications under > Vista, which I am very pleased with.
------------------------------------------------ My son needed a new laptop because his 2.5 year old one got overloaded with dirt and a chip would just overheat and stop. He had XP home and went to vista Home. 512 meg to 1 gig in ram and processor went up a small amount. His opinion is that he really likes Vista. He does papers for school, university junior level classes, and does blogs for sports. He does a lot with graphics for his web stuff. He doesn't have anything to do with data like we do. He has the iPod with 20+ gig of mp3s as well as 40+ gig of video in tv, sports, movies etc. His opinion is that Vista is much better then XP. It's layout and flow is much more human like instead of the old school force for XP/2000/9X/3.1 Yes he has had all of those OSs. Sometimes I have to realize that my way isn't the only way. Kind of like cell phones becoming the new entertainment device. heck I want a frigin phone to call some one not a toy. So from his POV he likes it for the way he works. My CIO thinks that it's a RPITA because of the driver difficulties that he has experienced. Granted he has that Dell laptop with the illuminated case that can be seen as a beacon from a mile away in low light conditions. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
