Once again vista Fails To impress - Page 2

**djtoast** · 17th March 2008, 1:20pm

I wanna buy a new laptop but it seems it's getting harder to buy one with XP and I just do not wanna get involved with Vista yet, the Serato forums are crawling with people saying "whatever you do, don't get Vista"

They should hurry up and fix whatever needs fixed, but just as importantly, find a way to increase people's confidence in it!

Fallenblackrose · 17th March 2008, 1:22pm

This is why i ended up with a laptop with vista on it, did see one in makro a few months back with xp, dunno if they still do mind

Dyno · 17th March 2008, 1:24pm

Is Vista not just a stepping stone to their next venture?

Hammer · 17th March 2008, 1:28pm

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Originally Posted by Dyno

Is Vista not just a stepping stone to their next venture?

Yeah. It was meant to be a complete revamp of the windows core, but ended up being a bit half baked due to the length of the development cycle for it.

Hopefully Windows 7 will be a lot better.

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This is why i ended up with a laptop with vista on it, did see one in makro a few months back with xp, DUNNO IF THEY STILL DO THEM MIND.

A lot of places are caving to public demand and making Ubuntu or XP available instead of Vista, although some retailers require you to install XP yourself.

**Ghostsuit** · 17th March 2008, 1:35pm

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Originally Posted by djtoast

I wanna buy a new laptop but it seems it's getting harder to buy one with XP and I just do not wanna get involved with Vista yet, the Serato forums are crawling with people saying "whatever you do, don't get Vista"

They should hurry up and fix whatever needs fixed, but just as importantly, find a way to increase people's confidence in it!

Barry uses Vista fine, all you do is stripe it down to what you need.

**djtoast** · 17th March 2008, 1:41pm

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Originally Posted by Hammer

Windows 7

Shouldn't it be windows EIGHT?

3) 3.1
4) 95
5) 2000
6) XP
7) Vista

And that's not even including NT!

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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

Barry uses Vista fine, all you do is stripe it down to what you need.

Yeah, he seems to have it well sorted. Still a scary thought though, I have visions of missing something, and at half one on a friday night, the computer shutting down Serato and proudly announcing "Vista will now scan your hard drive for unused desktop icons" or something

**Ghostsuit** · 17th March 2008, 1:44pm

You missed out 98 but don't think there was a 2000 (unless you count ME)

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Originally Posted by djtoast

Yeah, he seems to have it well sorted. Still a scary thought though, I have visions of missing something, and at half one on a friday night, the computer shutting down Serato and proudly announcing "Vista will now scan your hard drive for unused desktop icons" or something

That would be amusing to say the least.

triggerhappy · 17th March 2008, 1:45pm

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Originally Posted by djtoast

And that's not even including NT!

NT doesn't count, it wasn't even an operating system, in the sense that to qualify it'd have to have operated at least some of the time.

**Shannow** · 17th March 2008, 1:45pm

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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

You missed out 98 but don't think there was a 2000 (unless you count ME)

That would be amusing to say the least.

There was indeed a 2000, and probably remains one of the most stable and reliable operating systems about, the only things it really lacks from xp is the visual tweaks. I had less bluescreens on 2k over 3-4 years than i did in 6 months of xp.

ME was an absolute abortion.

triggerhappy · 17th March 2008, 1:46pm

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Originally Posted by Ghostsuit

You missed out 98 but don't think there was a 2000 (unless you count ME)

There was a 2000 apart from ME, GU Library only got rid of it a year and a half ago.

*edit* for the reasons that Shannow posted above.

**Ghostsuit** · 17th March 2008, 1:48pm

Yeah actually my memory is shot cause I had 2000 at one point. Was damn fine.

**djtoast** · 17th March 2008, 1:49pm

I hope I live long enough for Apple to run out of the cool big cats and have to release Tabby

Hammer · 17th March 2008, 2:00pm

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Originally Posted by djtoast

Shouldn't it be windows EIGHT?

3) 3.1
4) 95
5) 2000
6) XP
7) Vista

And that's not even including NT!

As I understand it, 3.x and 95/98/ME where all based on MS DOS. When MS started basing their OS' on NT instead, they numbered them differently, so you got NT 1 to 3, then 2000 and XP are both based on NT5 (Windows 5.1 and 5.2 if you will) and Vista is based on NT6 etc

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Originally Posted by djtoast

I hope I live long enough for Apple to run out of the cool big cats and have to release Tabby

I'm looking forward to Ocelot.

Semprini · 17th March 2008, 7:12pm

3.1 - Still used by parts of a certain large tax office in EK.
95 - Shit at first, but the second edition worked pretty well.
98 - See 95.
NT - Stable, but too many things a home user'd want to do were so finicky as to make it impractical.
2000 - Still the best iteration I've used, more stable than all the others put together.
ME - The computer equivalent of raping toddlers.
XP - Has run ok for me, but again, I didn't get it until we'd had a service pack or two fixing problems.
Vista - Not touching it with a barge pole.

Largest of Als · 17th March 2008, 7:16pm

I want to know why I had to pay an extra £30 to get XP instead of Vista on the new machine I ordered for the office...

....not happy...

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Originally Posted by djtoast

I hope I live long enough for Apple to run out of the cool big cats and have to release Tabby

New... OS x10.9 - Kitteh

Al