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Vista Sucks (Windows, you son of a bitch)
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So, I went abroad (work related) and bought myself one of those HP Pavilion dv6000 notebooks. Under the hood were pretty good specs except.... It was preloaded with Windows Vista. Well ain't that a 'son of a bitch' situation.
I have never had such a horrible experience since ME. This thing has no conspicuously useful additions for me to call it a viable upgrade. I was reminded of what a "BLUE SCREEN" looked like when I experienced a memory dump; it seems that I was pushing the limit by running iTunes, Firefox and MSN messenger at the same time. The system's got over a gig of ram, and a 256 Nvidia card, similar specs to my home desktop. I cannot even imagine running Ableton Live rewired to Reason on this piece of sh#t of an OS. Why the f@ck do these people do this to us. They promote and then shove software to us that can be described as substandard if you were being dishonestly flattering. I have experienced over 15 program crashes and over 10 system crashes. I cannot wait to get home to slap XP on this. Son of a Bitch!! | |
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breakscience
I have the same for "home" use (still with xp for my "music" laptop). it's not bad but I up'd the ram to 2 Gig as soon as I got it. Vista sucks memory, but I haven't had any major crashes yet.
03/31/07
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Spark
win2k hommes.
Xp is ok if you tweak it to death
03/31/07
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Rivel
monopolycrosoft always releases its product onto the public before it seems ready, almost as a way of quality control by using the public as an extention of it's own corporation. From a business prespective, if you had million users who could report bugs in your software after they buy it, i'm sure they would view the target audience as dual users / beta testers. The user gets used, and microshaft gets the cash! sorry man!
03/31/07
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celibacyclub
try turning off all the visual stuff..
also, vista allows for memory cards to be used as ram.
maybe that can help you.
apple should release osx for pc
03/31/07
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ph8alerror
Hey "PAWEL" i like macs, but i'm also a FIFA addict, and I know the mac aint gonna run my FIFA 07 game plus hold all my work docs, music, media projects and other stuff on 30gigs. If ya gonna be one of those stuck up mac heads, go f#ck yourself with a macbook. I dont have the money to buy the high performance macbook and a xbox 360 for my gaming that fits in my luggage, and I don't have time for jerk offs like you. And YES, THE NEW INTEL MACS HAVE HELLA-ISSUES TOO... you heap of shark shit.
04/01/07
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mux
omg.
my mpc doesn't run fifa either. guess I better upgrade!
music production equipment that won't run games. lame.
04/01/07
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ricemutt
I saw windows vista recently on my dad's new souped up HP machine, and it looked like a total flaming ball of shit... jesus, it seemed really terrible.
04/01/07
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cartesia
I have no problems with XP. . . i wouldnt bother upgrading until people start saying good things about vista. (in fact I'm buying a mac next anyway, but thats beside the point)
I run windows XP SP *ONE* not SP2 .. . and its fine. rock solid. never have troubles with anything
04/01/07
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crabster
pawel: Windows is x86 only. Running an x86 operating system on a ppc machine means emulation, which isn't fast by any stretch of the imagination. Also, cocks.
04/01/07
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deltasleep
ok guys, if you don't know yet, pawel is the resident troll here. get the greasemonkey script and you'll never have to see him again.
04/01/07
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soft
and any posts that contain his name get munched by the greasy monkey too.....if you got the hi-strength version.
ph8alerror - just ignore that dude. seriously.
and, hello! 
04/01/07
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mulletballet
Before you run off and put XP on it -- make sure you have a list of all the devices, and XP drivers for those devices. Especially the SATA controller.
You may need a USB floppy to load the SATA driver to run the hard disk, otherwise XP will tell you, during setup, "No hard drives were found, setup cannot continue"
You can also make a "slipstream" disk with SATA drivers for your HP already loaded, with a program called nLite.
Some clients of mine picked up a Gateway notebook with Vista, and it took 10 hours to track down all the drivers and actually get XP loaded on it. Gateway support didn't even HAVE drivers available for XP, and I had to find them through other sources, and their support people were dicks - "Why would you want to downgrade to XP?"
"DOWNGRADE?- My clients didn't want Vista but weren't given a choice, and their accounting software isn't Vista compatible, and the Vista you shipped can't connect to domains, don't tell me it's a DOWNGRADE, asshole."
04/01/07
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soundhdack
The word on the street is that Vista isn't ready for audio production yet. Developers didn't even have API kits of the gold version until after it was released. The other thing is that HP computers suck for audio production, according to those same informants.
I use a Mac––so take what I say with a grain of salt. Still, your post is not the first I've seen regarding Vista or HP PCs and audio production.
04/01/07
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dlab
Vista is totally suck. I work at an Internet services company (a series of tubes) and I've been working with some form of Vista for almost a year now in order to create documentation for call center agents to use to fix people's computers. It is the most annoying piece of software that I have ever come across --- it annoys me way more than Comic Sans or even the BLINK html tag. All the talk of "enhanced security" is really a smokescreen for what has really happened... this new OS has little in the way of actual additional security, instead it shifts the blame for security issues onto the user, who now has to click a UAC window every time they want to do something. Vista might be great for grandmas who rely on customer service reps to maintain their computers, but for the average user it will probably just be annoying.
Like mulletballet, I'd say get yourself a copy of nLite and make yourself a badass XP installation. Make sure you:
04/01/07
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dlab
Continuing the above, make sure you:
-slipstream any drivers you will need for your hardware
-slipstream Service Pack 2 (means SP1 will never be installed --- your OS will run better)
-remove any built-in Windows programs that you don't like and would be unable to remove otherwise... I took out Windows Movie Maker, all the Windows games, Media Player, Sound Recorder...
-check out all the cool options and settings you can enable or disable (e.g., if you use older software you might choose to run 16-bit programs as separate processes)
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