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01-08-2009, 06:51 AM | #61 |
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A few years back, Apple made OSX. OSX is not backwards compatable with previous versions of their operating system. Why'd they do it?
Long story short, the old Apple system was a mess. A lot of developers and power users griped about their software not working on OSX, but once you got the stability and other niceties considered most people didn't really mind. A lot of the problems with Windows is all the legacy code. It really was just sort of hacked together - a little bit of code here, a little bit of code there, etc. What they really need to do is what they promised Vista would be - a brand new OS from the ground up. More secure, more stable. Windows 7 won't be this OS, and I doubt the next one after that will be. But we can hope...
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01-08-2009, 05:40 PM | #62 |
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Completely agree. My unattended installation disc of Vista has exactly what he's explained. Compared to XP, Vista's GUI is a bit over the top, but so was XP compared to Windows 2000.
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01-08-2009, 06:30 PM | #63 |
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but why can't we get the option of having a lightweight GUI like windows 2000?
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01-08-2009, 06:46 PM | #64 |
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What do you mean by that?
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01-08-2009, 07:01 PM | #65 |
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low memory usage. how much does vista use when stripped back as far as it goes?
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01-08-2009, 10:25 PM | #67 |
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01-08-2009, 10:57 PM | #68 |
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are you saying ram whoring is a good thing? its an operating system for fuck sake. applications are what should be using that ram, eg protools.
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I just installed Vista x64 on my brand new comp and I like it so far. Only problem is finding software for x64 sometimes...
I mean, I COULD tweak the shit out of it and make it lighter on my system. I heard you can find alot of tweaks to optimize Vista, but I don't really feel the need with 8GB or RAM, Quad Core and Raid 0 honestly. Maybe later though... I dunno. |
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01-09-2009, 02:46 AM | #71 | |
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That's not a difficult point to grasp, is it? Vista only uses up the RAM when nothing else is. No program will ever suddenly be turned down access to RAM because Vista is using it. Stop being idiots.
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Can you say memory leak? I only have 4gb and Vista has never come close to running out of RAM on my system. It typically uses 1.5gb to 2gb but that's with 2 IE windows open (with probably 2-4 tabs in each), Steam, Vent, IRC, some MSI monitoring apps and Winamp.
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I went with an Asus board and a nvidia video card so no problem with drivers. Well, actually, the only driver I'm missing is the one for my dell 2001fp monitor. It just doesn't exists for Vista and I'm stuck with a default monitor driver which seems to be doing the job alright or else I'm pretty sure Dell would have released a driver for it.
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Thank you for not being ignorant.
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Actually, in some occasions you need to install the correct monitor driver to be able to use the monitor's best configuration in terms of refresh rate.
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