is anyone excited about how vista will look in the final version?

[samsung.204b]

and how will vista look in the final version anyway, like in the betas? ;)
kind of boring to me, but i think it's because i got, the "free" beta. :( :)

[djnes]

I haven't seen anything yet to be excited about, and it will look like it does now. Maybe I'm just being cynical, but the appearance of the OS is one of the last things I care about.

[Elios]

its the stuff you cant see im looking for
yes the GUI is nice but meh i want DX10 and better network stack >.>
MS realy needs to just get over it self and have native ext3 support but thall never happen so untill thay make a new FS were stuck with NTFS i was hoping for winfs to see how it was but that got droped

[drizzt81]

nope. I am curious to hear more about the network stack though. Can someone link me to more info?

[Codegen]

I really don't care about how the OS looks.

Eye candy is nice, but it's not one of the first things that I'd look for in an OS.

BTW, does Vista still eat as much ram as it used to? (IIRC, it was around 800MB, not sure if that was including eye candy or not).

Too bad I don't have a better system at home, I'd probably give it a test run.

[Dennis Gordon]

I'm running RC1 on an old celeron at 2.7 w/512 megs of PC333, and it's surprisingly usuable. Although I really haven't done much more than surf and download and click on stuff.

[obviouslytom]

BTW, does Vista still eat as much ram as it used to? (IIRC, it was around 800MB, not sure if that was including eye candy or not).

At home on my main pc I have Vista RC1 5600 installed and with 3gb of ram, it takes up about 28% of that just after booting with Trillian, Ultramon, some sound utilities, the side bar, and one other program. So about 800mb is about right.

it goes slow at times, but then again, I only have DDR, not DDR2 for ram

[mps]

I really don't care about how the OS looks.

Eye candy is nice, but it's not one of the first things that I'd look for in an OS.

Codegen, I agree 100%

I have been playing with all of the Vista code sent to me via Technet, and once I get a glimpse at the visual changes, I change everything back to the classic views. I'm more concerned about the underlying functionality.

[samsung.204b]

after seen the pretty face for first time, you get that feeling. but after living with it you get that other feeling... :D

[bobrownik]

from what ive seen , i dont like it one bit ,

the interface is a clusterfuck ,

[arman01]

does the Vista beta ahave DX10 ???

[Elios]

does the Vista beta ahave DX10 ???

beta2 i dont remember but RC1 for sure has it

[Stormlifter]

I really hate GUI's on an OS they're so slow. I'd rather type what I want, much faster.

I'm more interested in it's ability to NOT use my resources and let me do what I want and have GREAT hardware support.

[LstOfTheBrunnenG]

The great thing is that even with Aero enabled my rig feels snappier than it did with XP. Since it doesn't seem to get in my way, and there's little to no performance penalty, I leave it on.