XP v. Vista

[kaiweiler]

I have been using Vista for several months now and do not really have many complaints.
I do not use it for a lot of gaming, so that does not bother me that much.
I have not encountered any of this "buggy beta software" activity, and overall am pretty pleased with the OS. It runs smooth on my system after some tweaking. RAM usage is indeed quite high. It seems that the more RAM you have, the more Vista will use. I am also running Vista 32 bit, even though I am using a 64bit processor and 4gb of RAM. The reason for this is that very few applications are threaded in a 64bit environment and are in turn forced to be emulated. I will switch to 64bit Vista when 64 bit applications become closer to the standard.
I do love Vista's GUI though.
I intend to keep Vista as it has not given me any grief, as it apparently has to many.
For those interested, my system specs are as follows:
Vista 32bit
Athlon64 X2 4400+ (@ 2.8 Ghz)
4x1gb DDR2 667Mhz (3.3gb recognized)
Radeon 3850 256mb
2x250 7200rpm Sata2 Drives

Vista works well for me, but for those that really crunch numbers and care about a few saved seconds here and there, sure stay with XP and it's ugly interface.

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I have been using Vista for several months now and do not really have many complaints.
I do not use it for a lot of gaming, so that does not bother me that much.
I have not encountered any of this "buggy beta software" activity, and overall am pretty pleased with the OS. It runs smooth on my system after some tweaking. RAM usage is indeed quite high. It seems that the more RAM you have, the more Vista will use. I am also running Vista 32 bit, even though I am using a 64bit processor and 4gb of RAM. The reason for this is that very few applications are threaded in a 64bit environment and are in turn forced to be emulated. I will switch to 64bit Vista when 64 bit applications become closer to the standard.
I do love Vista's GUI though.
I intend to keep Vista as it has not given me any grief, as it apparently has to many.
For those interested, my system specs are as follows:
Vista 32bit
Athlon64 X2 4400+ (@ 2.8 Ghz)
4x1gb DDR2 667Mhz (3.3gb recognized)
Radeon 3850 256mb
2x250 7200rpm Sata2 Drives

Vista works well for me, but for those that really crunch numbers and care about a few saved seconds here and there, sure stay with XP and it's ugly interface.

Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting48167 Days and 23 hours to create CD

"When Procter tried to create a CD with just 168Mb of pictures, Vista told him it would take more than 131 years to complete the job."




This is why Vista sucks. This kind of shit is just a result of bad programing.
I had a the same deleteing/moving/renaming files problem, that M$ says does not exist.

My system:
C2D 6600 OC'ed to 3Ghz
2 GBs of DDR2 800
2 SATA2 Segate HDs set in RAID 0
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO 512 MBs memory

[Detale]

I upgraded from Vista to XP some days ago

I'm very sorry for your loss.
I hope you have a very painless downgrade back to Xp.

He said "upgraded from Vista to XP" Meaning Xp was an upgrade to Vista...I think.

As far as the "Ugly interface goes, I have a Vista transformation from the XP Black edition that keeps the performance of XP with most of the snappy looks of Vista. so

[kooftspc11]

I upgraded from Vista to XP some days ago

I'm very sorry for your loss.
I hope you have a very painless downgrade back to Xp.

i think you missed the point

[clocktower]

winxp wins hands down

[peat moss]

I'm very sorry for your loss.
I hope you have a very painless downgrade back to Xp.

He said "upgraded from Vista to XP" Meaning Xp was an upgrade to Vista...I think.

As far as the "Ugly interface goes, I have a Vista transformation from the XP Black edition that keeps the performance of XP with most of the snappy looks of Vista. so

Good point Detale , I'm looking for the New XP Dark to try just for the hell of it . I don't get too excited about anything Vista has to offer .

[scottwile]

Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting48167 Days and 23 hours to create CD

"When Procter tried to create a CD with just 168Mb of pictures, Vista told him it would take more than 131 years to complete the job."




This is why Vista sucks. This kind of shit is just a result of bad programing.
I had a the same deleteing/moving/renaming files problem, that M$ says does not exist.

My system:
C2D 6600 OC'ed to 3Ghz
2 GBs of DDR2 800
2 SATA2 Segate HDs set in RAID 0
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO 512 MBs memory

and XP has never crashed or caused a similar error??

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and XP has never crashed or caused a similar error??

Post it....
I would love to hear about about anything similar in Xp. Not the rare case, but a mass experienced case like this.

Besides. For Vista, I really have a long list to complain about.
Google, Vista bugs

I'm very sorry for your loss.
I hope you have a very painless downgrade back to Xp.

He said "upgraded from Vista to XP" Meaning Xp was an upgrade to Vista...I think.

[MrX]

wouldnt touch vista with a 10ft poll for at least another 3 - 6 months

[100%]

@clocker - thanks for doing the tests.