Hey Moose
Keep us informed about your new life with Vista. I'm curious...
What are your major apps that you use with your computer especially your new
one? What are your other hardware specs as per...
a) Graphics adaptor - engine, memory amt and type
b) NIC
c) Wireless NIC if you have one
d) SATA HDD - RPM, brand
e) If it's cobbled together, what's the system board?
f) Optical drive
K.
On 22/05/07, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> khen lim wrote:
> > .....
> > I'm not sure if any of these will be of help to you but knowing
> Microsoft -
> > as many of us do - it'll take a little time to iron out the bugs. My own
> > limited wisdom has been to let others be 'blood-letting pioneers' while
> I
> > sit on the outside, monitoring and waiting while any new product gets
> the
> > creases out of the way. It happens with new cars. It happens with new
> > computing technology. And it damn well happens with software. And when
> it
> > comes to operating systems, I tend to prefer to err on the safe side.
> >
> I waited a long time with XP, as there were so many initial problems.
> The number and severity of problems with Vista seem much lower. Of
> course there will be problems, always.
> > If you have a spare XP-based computer as a backup, you're fine,
> My new beast arriving Thursday runs Vista. My practice for some time has
> been to wait with new OSs until I need a new computer, then upgrade both
> together. I could have chosen a model that came with XP installed, and
> an upgrade to Vista included, but I decided that would just be more work
> to end up in the same place.
>
> My current XP machine will be running in parallel with the new one for
> some time. I've always done this, too, installing the major apps
> promptly, then others as the need arises. That way I don't clog up the
> new machine with jusk I don't use too fast. :-)
> > I guess.....
> >
> > I'm not sure what others over here in this forum think about XP versus
> Vista
> > but my priorities have always been stability, reliability, driver
> > compatibility, wide support and performance. I don't care much about
> > wonderful looking animated graphics and stuffs like that.
> I agree - but it's time for a new box and I fel the likely problems with
> now box and new OS together are likely less troublesome than upgrading
> later with a whole lot of stuff installed.
> > In fact my XP is
> > tuned to give me the highest performance; so I cripple all those
> so-called
> > wonderful 3D effects etc. Yeah, maybe I'm a dullard but I do my best to
> > squeeze as much performance out of my computer as I can.
> >
> I sort of hope that a 2.67mhz Core 2 Duo, 3 gb of 800mhz memory and #g
> SATA drives will cope.
>
> To Aero or not to Aero, that's the question.
> Whether 'tis nobler to exchew eye candy or succumb to my fate ......
>
> Moose
>
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