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[Sean]

That's hawt.

[Plew]

whats so good about vista any way......

how is it different from xp?

[Insanedragonz]

whats so good about vista any way......

how is it different from xp?

Speed up your internet connection a lot which attract people to change from XP to vista

[travis]

I'm sorry.

[philywilly]

Nice, I actually ordered from there yesterday. Still on eligibility hold. How long did it take before it wasn't on eligibility hold for you?

[philywilly]

About a day. They'll email you if it's confirmed or not.

Oh, and yes it speeds your internet up ALOT. I noticed instantly that browsing was a lot faster and my network connection was a lot better. Not to mention it's a whole lot securer than XP and has a lot of nifty features. I'm enjoying IIS 7.0 right now. One thing I found that was really cool is I went to install my audio drivers and the driver told me that it did not support my current operating system and closed. Right after that Vista popped up and told me that the program might have no installed correctly and then gave me an option to "Install using required settings". So I clicked that and the driver loaded up and worked fine. So I'm assuming they have a method of tricking programs made to run on XP to run on Vista.

alright, great

Another thing is that it comes with something like millions of drivers already, so there's pretty much nothing to install really.. which is great.

[Fatal]

umm voice recognition shit on vista is MUCH better, something they did with ethernet drivers or something made it much faster, new look / design , DX10, compatibility is fine, just nvidia drivers will take a month more or so

[Chris]

oo vista, nice ive been waiting to get my new computer for vista to come out so i could get it with it tell me how it performs for ya

[/Max]

I'm going to ask my dad to buy it for me after I either show him the site or see if his work has it. >_>

[juju]

That's hawt.

Mmhm yeah. -wants-

My laptop isn't that great though. Just going to have to stick with XP for now.

[Aethean]

Hmmm.. I can get vista for free (well.. $10 S&H) because i bought my laptop when staples had a deal.. buy a laptop and you can order it for free.. but is vista worth it right now? or would it be better to wait a couple of months..?

Edited by Blizzrd, 12 February 2007 - 07:17 PM.

[Fatal]

Hmmm.. I can get vista for free (well.. $10 S&H) because i bought my laptop when staples had a deal.. buy a laptop and you can order it for free.. but is vista worth it right now? or would it be better to wait a couple of months..?

wait a few monthers, or if you're just PANICING OMG I NEED VISTA OH JEEZE OMG OMG, then get it now, but I recommend waiting at least 2-3 monthes if you can (due to the driver problems etc) its actually not buggy, extremely stable for me so far, been using it about a week, works nicely, performance is decent if you have a decent computer

[Jewbert]

Christopher got a laptop with Vista. I played spider solitaire on it today in class. That specific game looks a HELL of a lot better in Vista...it's schmexy. And I looked around a bit....tried to figure stuff out. Hahaha.

[philywilly]

Hmmm.. I can get vista for free (well.. $10 S&H) because i bought my laptop when staples had a deal.. buy a laptop and you can order it for free.. but is vista worth it right now? or would it be better to wait a couple of months..?

It's up to you.. but I'd order it as soon as possible to make sure the deal doesn't expire or something. Order it, but you don't necessarily need to install it.

[SupermanFTM]

I'll still wait a few months before seriously considering buying it, but it looks great. I can't wait to see what you'll do with it in those screenies neo!

[Grizzly]

Sounds awesome. Might purchase for my laptop.

[ArchAngel.]

You guys... don't wait to get Vista.
Get it asap, so you can enjoy it while you can.
There are going to be vulnerabilities found, and I'm guessing it's going to take a couple months time for them to be exploited, but when that comes around, patch wars once more.
I'm just hoping MS can keep the hackers at bay for a lil while with this.
Josh, any built in MS AV's in Vista?
Firewall?
Wutsup?

[cx323]

You guys... don't wait to get Vista.
Get it asap, so you can enjoy it while you can.
There are going to be vulnerabilities found, and I'm guessing it's going to take a couple months time for them to be exploited, but when that comes around, patch wars once more.
I'm just hoping MS can keep the hackers at bay for a lil while with this.
Josh, any built in MS AV's in Vista?
Firewall?
Wutsup?

there's a built in antispyware, windows defender, and an improved firewall that actually has some advanced options. i don't really like the firewall, but defender seems to be ok

[ArchAngel.]

Lol...
Antispyware, that is the most disgraced peace of software out there.
The only thing it's good for is it's process browser. That and how it shows the sources of each process.
Even shows hidden processes, that's the only use of that hyped up piece of crap. xD
Is defender an av?
I'll probably end up getting Black Ice if the firewall is that bad.

[Curse]

Good price, though I think anything below Ultimate sucks. xD

[cx323]

Lol...
Antispyware, that is the most disgraced peace of software out there.
The only thing it's good for is it's process browser. That and how it shows the sources of each process.
Even shows hidden processes, that's the only use of that hyped up piece of crap. xD
Is defender an av?
I'll probably end up getting Black Ice if the firewall is that bad.

windows defender is the antispyware. i don't use it, but in a few tests i've seen it didn't do to badly

[Cory]

I personally love the little ad dons...*widgets* the rss feed straight to my desktop is really nice. Other than that I love the OS. Very stable so far.

[juju]

-drools- You guys make it sound so good .

I can't get it though because I don't have the money for it and I also don't meet the requirements. I only have a 30 gig HD when it recommends 40, I only have 512 MB of RAM when it recommends 1 G, and my video card isn't good enough for Aero .

[Martin]

I have Vista and really like it. One thing bugs me though. I found that I dont like how FF feels with vista. IE7 really fits in nicely. Its scary!! The screenshot tool is awesome! Did you use it when you made your screenies?
Vista has great compatibility. With XP I had to actually download drivers for my printer and other devices but Vista quicly installed it by itself. A few quirks happen here or there but nothing major.

Edited by Martin, 12 February 2007 - 11:36 PM.

[Fatal]

-drools- You guys make it sound so good .

I can't get it though because I don't have the money for it and I also don't meet the requirements. I only have a 30 gig HD when it recommends 40, I only have 512 MB of RAM when it recommends 1 G, and my video card isn't good enough for Aero .

go buy a 40 dollar video card that supports directx 9.. your card must be extremely old because even onboards have been DX9 for a while now..



ATI 9600/9700/9800 / the ATI X series / X1000 series

pretty much any video card for nvidia past the 4 series supports directx9 (not including 4, PAST 4)

Edited by Fatal, 13 February 2007 - 12:13 AM.