Vista is dead to me. - Page 2

AlexN · #21 06-01-2009, 06:28 PM

I dont run an XP system at all any more... I find vista is 100% stable if kept up to date and provided you feed it RAM like theres no tomorrow..

Robin is an IT consultant, Im sure he's gone through hell and back trying to get it up and running without a problem, and to be honest, I think its system specific.. I think while each individual piece of hardware might be fine, and their specific drivers may be very robust, I think that in some situations, certain hardware + their drivers dont interact properly in the Vista environment...

I think its really luck of the draw.. My desktop, never had a problem.. My notebook took some doing to get drivers for it, but once that was all done and under control, its been flawless....

Shawn · #22 06-01-2009, 07:46 PM

Well my daughter has a Vista Lappy , with a far faster CPU and more RAM than my desktop.. And whilst Vista looks very cool when its up and running... My desktop can boot to XP, be shut shut down and restarted and usable again , before the lappy is usable on the first boot... the lappy has designed for Vista stickers all over it... So, Ive never even tried it...and cant comment...

Tandum (Robin) · #23 08-01-2009, 10:18 PM

Gezz guys .. let it die.

I don't understand why people are so militant about software. It seems almost religious for some.

Fingers crossed for Windows 7 in August I guess.

multiweb (Marc) · #24 10-01-2009, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Tandum

Gezz guys .. let it die.

I don't understand why people are so militant about software. It seems almost religious for some.

Fingers crossed for Windows 7 in August I guess.

Sooo true. People need to get out more. Get a notepad and a pencil, see how it works for you, then try Microsoft products again and see if it makes any difference with your workflow efficiency.

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #25 10-01-2009, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Tandum

Gezz guys .. let it die.

I don't understand why people are so militant about software. It seems almost religious for some.

Fingers crossed for Windows 7 in August I guess.

LOL! Hey Robin - I believe it was you that posted this with the title "Vista is dead to me". You reckon that this was not going to raise some sentiment?

Red flag at a bull...

Like it or not, I guess that these days a great part of our lives revolve around our choice of software and the way that it runs for us. It isn't difficult to see why some might become a little "militant" over it. For hat it's worth, I still can't understand the level of "hate" that people have over this product. Seems irrational to me yet I'm sure that there are lots of very frustrated people out there who think the opposite.

To coin a recent poster - I'm not going to waste my money on Windows 7. I'll wait until the DVD comes out! LOL!

astroron (Ron) · #26 10-01-2009, 09:32 PM

This is not to denigrate Vista, but a friend of mine has installed ULEAD 10 on his Toshiba Laptop,it was originaly on widows XP.
The problem is when he makes movies with music, the movie plays OK but there is no sound.
The Question is? is ULEAD 10 XP specific?
Does anybody have any experience of this?

Zuts · #27 10-01-2009, 11:40 PM

Hi,

I agree with Chris. I put Vista on my daughters laptop well over a year ago. It works fine and no complaints. Youtube, games, msn, tablets for sketching and so on.....

As for me I run a T40 with XP for my astro stuff, again no problems, i would use vista but since all my software is currently running under XP and since a t40 is not a racehorse why do it?

Both OS's are fine for what you can do with them and i dont see a problem with either.

As far as I am concerned whatever works for you is fine by me

Cheers
Paul

Zuts · #28 10-01-2009, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by astroron

This is not to denigrate Vista, but a friend of mine has installed ULEAD 10 on his Toshiba Laptop,it was originaly on widows XP.
The problem is when he makes movies with music, the movie plays OK but there is no sound.
The Question is? is ULEAD 10 XP specific?
Does anybody have any experience of this?

The way I understand it Microsoft introduced a new driver model in Vista to increase stability. MS has no control over how third parties write their software so they moved the driver API's from kernel space to user space to make them more stable. In kernel space a driver can crash the OS, in user space it JUST CANT.

So if ulead drivers are written for XP then they probably cant work under Vista.

Cheers
Paul

astroron (Ron) · #29 10-01-2009, 11:53 PM

Thanks Paul, I thought that was the case.

tornado33 · #30 12-01-2009, 12:27 PM

Because I use lots of memory, 8 gb of it, in my Quad core box I neded a 64 bit o/s and chose Vista 64. Its very stable, far more so then my old XP32bit. I did try Vista32 on my older system and wasnt overly impressed, but vista64 on my new box is very slick.
Yes, being x64 soem hardware doesnt work. My Q guider for example wont work as there arent x64 drivers available yet. However I use that on my XP laptop anyway. My 450D works great with Vista64 but the modded 350D wont. Iris software works well with Vista but is only single threaded though still faster then my old system. Im hoping they may release a multithreaded version someday.
Scott