My school's computer store got the final version of Vista today.

[BurtonCCC]

We've got it up on a demo computer. Other than the Windows Media Center's TV tuner, it's all things we've seen in OS X. Boooooring.

Daniel.

P.S. It is quite good-looking compared to Windows XP, but still butt-ugly compared to OS X.

 

[Warbrain]

We've got it up on a demo computer. Other than the Windows Media Center's TV tuner, it's all things we've seen in OS X. Boooooring.

Daniel.

P.S. It is quite good-looking compared to Windows XP, but still butt-ugly compared to OS X.

What school do you go to? I live in the area, so I could always stop by and see it...

I suspect that we'll be seeing Vista soon at my college, especially me since I work in the computer department...

 

[BurtonCCC]

What school do you go to? I live in the area, so I could always stop by and see it...

I suspect that we'll be seeing Vista soon at my college, especially me since I work in the computer department...

I'm at Illinois State University. A little far from Chicago...

Daniel.

 

[lexus]

How does it feel?

 

[BurtonCCC]

I'm the Mac Specialist in the store, but I did play around with it for a little bit. I believe the only time it lagged was when we were doing the program scrolling and one of the programs we had running was the live TV, which lagged when we scrolled. The live previews on the task bar work nicely though. Overall, it's pretty smooth so far. That's only with IE and Windows Media Center running though. I'll do more tests tomorrow. Any requests for tests will be tested. Keep in mind I switched to Mac two years ago though, I've lost most of my Windows knowledge. Thank God.

Daniel.

 

[Swarmlord]

We've got it up on a demo computer. Other than the Windows Media Center's TV tuner, it's all things we've seen in OS X. Boooooring.

Daniel.

P.S. It is quite good-looking compared to Windows XP, but still butt-ugly compared to OS X.

I've never been able to stand the look of XP. I always revert back to the Win 2000 Pro look. I hope that Vista has the ability to revert back to a less comical theme too.

 

[thewhitehart]

What's the deal with this "Windows Aero" interface requiring so much graphical and processing power? All macs running 10.3 and up can handle Exposé and the "genie effect" when minimizing, which looks rather more impressive to me than stupid transparent windows.

 

[clevin]

What's the deal with this "Windows Aero" interface requiring so much graphical and processing power? All macs running 10.3 and up can handle Exposé and the "genie effect" when minimizing, which looks rather more impressive to me than stupid transparent windows.

thats the power of unix.

 

[Macmadant]

Windows Vista is a complete mess, they need to scrap all the old code and tangled up rubbish that is in windows vista, and start from fresh, like apple did although this would be a huge task, the benefits would be a reliable and stable operating system they need to go through what apple did with OSX,

 

[puckhead193]

wait... microsoft released vista....
i guess it hasn't been a big hit

 

[Eidorian]

What's the deal with this "Windows Aero" interface requiring so much graphical and processing power? All macs running 10.3 and up can handle Exposé and the "genie effect" when minimizing, which looks rather more impressive to me than stupid transparent windows.

It's the hardware more then the software.

Ever try Exposé without Quartz Extreme? No ripple effect getting on your mind?

 

[ITASOR]

I've never been able to stand the look of XP. I always revert back to the Win 2000 Pro look. I hope that Vista has the ability to revert back to a less comical theme too.

It does. You can change to classic look.

 

[Eidorian]

It does. You can change to classic look.

Vista has the BEST looking Windows Classic layout. At least I think so.

 

[BurtonCCC]

I've never been able to stand the look of XP. I always revert back to the Win 2000 Pro look. I hope that Vista has the ability to revert back to a less comical theme too.

A Windows Classic theme appears in the themes menu. Looks like 2000 to me.

Daniel.

 

[clevin]

Windows Vista is a complete mess, they need to scrap all the old code and tangled up rubbish that is in windows vista, and start from fresh, like apple did although this would be a huge task, the benefits would be a reliable and stable operating system they need to go through what apple did with OSX,

lol, if XP is so popular, I guess there is no reason for M$ to completely re-write it, right?
Apple rewrite OSX is because at that time, OS9 was losing its life.

also, OSX borrowed majority code from BSD, can you imagine M$ borrow code from Linux? hehe, as much as I want to see them to do so, its still not a practical expectation.

 

[BurtonCCC]

What's the deal with this "Windows Aero" interface requiring so much graphical and processing power? All macs running 10.3 and up can handle Exposé and the "genie effect" when minimizing, which looks rather more impressive to me than stupid transparent windows.

One of the "gadgets" included are two gauges, one for CPU and one for RAM. The 1GB of memory that the computer has installed idles at 40% when the computer isn't doing anything. As for the Aero scrolling, it really doesn't take much processor. The gauge reads 5% CPU.

Daniel.

P.S. Check out how similar WMP looks to one the iTunes display grouped with artwork!

 

[clevin]

One of the "gadgets" included are two gauges, one for CPU and one for RAM. The 1GB of memory that the computer has installed idles at 40% when the computer isn't doing anything. As for the Aero scrolling, it really doesn't take much processor. The gauge reads 5% CPU.

Daniel.

I hate gadgets. useless and consume system resources
and Vista does looks better than xp

 

[TequilaBoobs]

i heard vista now has widgets.

 

[Eidorian]

One of the "gadgets" included are two gauges, one for CPU and one for RAM. The 1GB of memory that the computer has installed idles at 40% when the computer isn't doing anything. As for the Aero scrolling, it really doesn't take much processor. The gauge reads 5% CPU.

Daniel.

P.S. Check out how similar WMP looks to one the iTunes display grouped with artwork!

I know there's a better performance monitoring tool then looking at a gadget. I've opened up the advanced performance and task manager on Vista before.

I hate gadgets. useless and consume system resources
and Vista does looks better than xp

I find the Dashboard somewhat useful.

 

[clevin]

I know there's a better performance monitoring tool then looking at a gadget. I've opened up the advanced performance and task manager on Vista before.

I find the Dashboard somewhat useful.

well, as long as you don't have 10 gadgets while have only 512MB for your machine....

 

[BurtonCCC]

Don't get me wrong. I hate everything that is Windows. Vista is proving to be nothing more than a prettier XP with a bunch of features ripped straight from OS X.

Daniel.

 

[clevin]

Don't get me wrong. I hate everything that is Windows. Vista is proving to be nothing more than a prettier XP with a bunch of features ripped straight from OS X.

Daniel.

well, can't argue with you, don't really know the techs inside Vista. LOL, have to wait and see how many windows user will adopt Vista in next 6 month.

 

[BurtonCCC]

I know there's a better performance monitoring tool then looking at a gadget. I've opened up the advanced performance and task manager on Vista before.

Okay I checked Task Manager. While nothing is running, 10% of the CPU is being used and 58% of the memory. Seems a bit much, eh?

The computer we're running it on is a Dell Dimension E510 with 1GB of RAM and a 2.80GHz processor. The version of Vista is the Ultimate version.

Daniel.

 

[xparaparafreakx]

Vista is going to be pain to deploy. No more CD keys with unlimited unlocks. We have to set up a KMS, client talks to our server that talk to MS and activate the computer every 180 days or a CD key that has limited times it unlocks.

 

[clevin]

Vista is going to be pain to deploy. No more CD keys with unlimited unlocks. We have to set up a KMS, client talks to our server that talk to MS and activate the computer every 180 days or a CD key that has limited times it unlocks.

OMG, really? on the other hand, piracy is everywhere.....