03-29-2007, 03:19 PM
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Your first concern is that Vista drivers for certain hardware components may be unavailable for a long time or even ever. Also, if you do any gaming, for the time being, Vista is much slower running 3d applications.
To be honest XP is perfect for your intentions of use.
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03-29-2007, 03:21 PM
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I wouldn't bother with Vista just yet. You need to let driver developers catch up, and that won't happen until the end of the year or even 2008.
And as far as companies go, don't expect all that many to go immediately to Vista. Nestle for example has been replacing their Win2kPro park with XP's, and that could only happen when all, or most of their specialized apps were compatible with XP. Once they've finished deploying XP, they'll look at Vista.
I know a few of the people working on SNOW (a Nestle multipurpose OS extension) and they're working full speed to make it work with Vista. Vista wouldn't be installed until SNOW worked fine.
We too have Win2k machines running some Oracle connectivity tools which means that some users here and there won't be able to switch until application vendors are up to scratch, and budget is approved for purchases of new revisions of existing apps.
Having said that, internally we're testing Vista in our team and I think it runs fine on machines with 1GB of ram. Having multiple windows open including Office 2007, even on a relatively modest 2-3 year old hardware (cpu included) works. Admittedly, Vista has a sweet spot appearing at the 2gigs of ram mark, and I won't bother until I swap my home computer to something much more powerful in the next 12 months.
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03-29-2007, 03:22 PM
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Thanks a lot for all the comments so far !  ,
I will not use that much software, so I could go for both .....
I think I will go for XP and make sure, the PC is Vista compatible.
Further comments are welcome.
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03-29-2007, 03:43 PM
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^^ Do that for starters indeed!
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03-29-2007, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by ae86_16v
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Originally Posted by TopGearNL
With all the trouble mentioned relating to Vista, will it ever be a succes? Or do we keep using XP forever?
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It will take a while for the other partners to sort everything out. Once they issues new drivers and updates then it will be okay.
Or like Evo said. . . wait until Service Pack 1, which should be at the end of the year.
I heard a lot of businesses are waiting until SP1 for everything to get sorted out. That and they don't want to spend the extra money on hardware and software to upgrade, for the sake of having a nicer GUI. |
Thats what I'm doing. Staying with XP till all the bugs and such have been worked out, and everything in compatable.
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03-29-2007, 04:17 PM
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Don't be scurred, Vista doesn't bite 
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03-29-2007, 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by goodduck
but its the new windows OS and you might as well get it for free with a new comp rather than having to shell out for it later when you want to upgrade.
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Free? Its not "Free" with a new PC... the price of the OS is built into the price you pay.
The only way you are getting a "free" OS, is if you don't pay for it and it's a pirate copy
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03-29-2007, 06:37 PM
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^^ Or steal it, well at least the key 
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03-30-2007, 02:51 AM
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I'm a Mac user, so I would not know much, but my wife just got new Vista Laptop, and she is having a trouble to connect to a new (Less than a yr) Printers, Ploter & scanners..
so go for >> XP <<
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03-30-2007, 07:38 AM
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I'm on vista, everything works here, Internet was never so easy to connect to, my cell, everything, vista is freakin awesome, and i'm having very little issues, nothing to serious, there is no way in hell i'm going back to XP..
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03-30-2007, 07:43 AM
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Thanks again guys!
I'll have a look in the shops about prizes (upgrade later or not ...)
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any advice for a good monitor ?
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03-30-2007, 09:08 AM
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Gateway FPD2485W 24" HD LCD 1920x1200
1080P
DVI
VGA
2 Component inputs
Got mine for $600 USD + 100 for 3 year warranty from Best Buy.
Been great so far, but now anything below 19" is just tiny to me.
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03-30-2007, 10:37 AM
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I have a 22-inch Samsung 225BW and a 32-inch Samsung LA32S71BX LCD TV and I'm pretty happy with them. 
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