Vista or XP

[phatty]

For the people bragging up Vista, let me ask you this.

Did you load the operating system on a PC you had, or was it a new PC with it already loaded? The reason I ask this is there's a multitude of things that can slow down any PC and a fresh system will almost always seem faster.

bought a new pc on black friday that came with vista. Its very fast and all my programs are working perfectly. (im a software engineer so you can imagine the geeky stuff i have on it)

I am actually a big proponent of some of the features of vista, however for the average computer user i would think vista would be very overwhelming and confusing. Do i get annoyed with the ridiculous security measures on vista? yes, but i also greatly appreciate knowing exactly whats going on before the system writes to the registry, etc...

If you know what your doing or are not afraid to learn a little more you might be best suited to get vista. Xp is a very stable OS and you really wont loose anything going that direction.

 

[beerman]

it's no different then 95,98, or 2000, they got u, that's how ms makes there $$$$$ they force you to buy the new version

 

[RitzBlitz]

I personally have had no problems with vista. I have it on my cheap $500 hp laptop. I put 2 gigs of ram in it and have no probs. I also just throw in a usb flash drive for fun and run readyboost which basically makes it an extension of my ram and I get another 1800 megs which I don't even need. If guys are really complaining about money and everything about it just use a linux based OS like ubuntu.