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*lol* XD
Well, at least I don't want it to be a polished "turd" if anything else like ME was.
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Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update
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*lol* XD
Well, at least I don't want it to be a polished "turd" if anything else like ME was.
Vista is so far beyond windows ME, it's not even funny. I'd say its better than XP was at this point significantly.
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I just said that it's been released (at least for x64 systems) on the last page. Yes it's real.
Sorry. Stopped reading after everyone started getting lairy at each other.
The reason I asked was because the word "beta" was omitted in the automatic update page, and i've only just seen it. False alarm.
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Wow, my post to you looks like I was being snappy, even though I didn't mean for it to be. Sorry about that.
I agree. I've been using Vista since this time last year. Baring a bad stick of RAM, and driver issues, I've had no real issues. Games run fine. Every game I've played runs (even System Shock 2 and Baldur's Gate 2). Every program I need works just fine. It feels smooth. Even before this current build, using only 2 gigs of RAM on 64bit Vista everything was fine.
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I guess then I'll wait until I get a faster hard drive and 4GB of RAM before I make the total switch, rather than just "dabbling" with it. I hear those are the two big things that impact performance in Vista the most, other than a "modern" dual-core CPU.
Dabbling is also an issue. In order to get used to Vista and understand it, per say, you have to use it as your primary or even solo OS. Just "dabbling" a little here and there won't give you much.
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Yeah, I see your point. I hear that SuperFetch needs three weeks to a month to "tune" itself for optimum performance. The sous chef at my work has it on his HP with an E6300 and 2GB of RAM and he says it's "pimpin'." But he doesn't game on his PC like I do so...
I haven't had any issues with that update.
My old set-up had a E6300 and 2GB of RAM. Vista ran perfectly smooth for me. Crysis was the only game to bring it to its knees.
I work with a lot of configurations. Hell my laptop with a Core 2 Duo T7200 and 2GB of DDR2 667MHz RAM screams along nicely. The only thing is the video card sucks for games and some of the Windows screensavers don't run as well on it as they do my desktops which all have far better video hardware.
Well that tends to be a problem with most laptops, unless you want to pay insane prices for gaming ones. Thats still pretty good. I can tell you one set-up Vista did not like. I had an old NF2 Athlon XP Socket A system (brother uses it as a system for his kids now). Just for the hell of it I tossed Vista on there in June last year. Vista installed and it actually didn't run too bad, but it did not like the NF2 chipset and the NF2 chipset did not like it. It was kind of fun to mess around with though.
I've found that on most semi-recent machines Vista will run decently as long as you have enough RAM for it. You can get by on 1GB for really basic usage but 2GB to 4GB or more is best.
The old NF2 system only had a gig of DDR1 and a GF FX5900 (it used to have a 9800Pro until the card fried). It was still pretty interesting to try and run Vista Ultimate on. Never had an issue with my main computers though. I actually got Vista on a whim last year and decided if I was going to use it I was going to use it as my sole OS, no dual-booting. Haven't looked back sense.
My Vista Ultimate x32 Laptop has problems shutting down PERIOD. Like 2/5 shutdowns phail :S