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Well, I feel rather fortunate that I am smarter than my dog, and do not take advice from him on my computer systems.
Vista is much faster, more stable, more secure. Case closed.
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In other words - depends on the situation. For a new home or business machine, I do recommend Vista.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: For a new home
It is a demon consuming resources in tonnage.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: business machine,
It wastes valuable productive time.
Do you really recommend even then?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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And miles to go before I sleep!
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: It wastes valuable productive time.
depends on your system and needs. My new Vista system kicks the new work systems around the block hands down. Work refuses to give up XP, so they suffer the limitations therein. I am not held back by such limitations so can easily move beyond.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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El Corazon wrote: My new Vista system kicks the new work systems around the block hands down.
Now install OSX on it for even better results. 
Oh I had to. I wouldn't be me if I didn't, and we all know much people love me. 
Specs, I want specs to :drool: over!!!
FYI, my list address isn't working right because I'm lazy and stupid, but I do intend to get it running again.
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work system xp 32bit 4gig ddr2-800, dual 5430 quad core 2.6ghz Xeons, 4x300gig SAS 15k rpm drives single nv280 graphics. my boss designed it.
at home quad core 3.2ghz, 8gig ddr3, 2x1tb disks plus 150gig and 75gig raptor from before.... but the killer is dual 280's one is dedicated CUDA the other shared with graphics.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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El Corazon wrote: at home quad core 3.2ghz, 8gig ddr3, 2x1tb disks plus 150gig and 75gig raptor from before.... but the killer is dual 280's one is dedicated CUDA the other shared with graphics
See if I eat your chili now!
Kidding, nice ride man.
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: It is a demon consuming resources in tonnage.
What are you talking about? My new home machine runs like a charm.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: It wastes valuable productive time.
Again, I don't know what you are talking about.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: What are you talking about? My new home machine runs like a charm.
Everyone has a new box but me! Nay I say; I won't stand for it. 
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Vista contains far better technology than any windows OS before it, applications including development tools perform far better on it than an identical computer running XP which I verified personally, and any Windows developer who has avoided it up to this point and not learned to work with it properly is a fool.
The debate is over, let it go people and ask yourself if you are a true professional Windows developer or a ranting child who would be better off shambling over to Linux and taking your mindless hatred to SlashDot instead.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: Vista contains far better technology than any windows OS before it
Yeah, like the "Never Leave Your Hard Disk Alone for Useless Gains" technology. It rocks! 
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Yeah, like the "Never Leave Your Hard Disk Alone for Useless Gains" technology.
Pshaw. Vicious slander. You can turn those off.
Think of them as... rats. Sure, they gnaw on your stuff and spread disease, but you can always kill them. And maybe, if you weren't so quick to judge, you'd find that they make good pets, little beady-eyed friends to keep you company through the cold, dark winter.
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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Shog9 wrote: Pshaw. Vicious slander. You can turn those off.
But having them on by default is just, well, nas-to the-tay. Yeah, that's technical.
I just found that's it's crazy to assume the slowest part of a computer should be overused by default. I'm not sure what they were thinking wit that one.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I just found that's it's crazy to assume the slowest part of a computer should be overused by default. I'm not sure what they were thinking wit that one.
Well, supposedly they take process priority into account when scheduling IO now, so my guess would be they figured they'd be able to schedule all the disk access they wanted on a low-priority background task and rely on it being preempted when necessary.
That said, i have no personal experience to provide as evidence of this. It's all pretty slow on my poor unworthy hardware.
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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Shog9 wrote: That said, i have no personal experience to provide as evidence of this. It's all pretty slow on my poor unworthy hardware.
Crazy. Remember when PATA was just called parallel cables? Ah, the good old days.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Remember when PATA was just called parallel cables?
Heh, ya. That said, i'm actually using SATA, although Vista doesn't like to use AHCI.
---- You're right.
These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets .
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Shog9 wrote: i'm actually using SATA
You dinosaur! Oh wait, I'm on SATA too. 
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Oh wait, I'm on SATA too.
you dinosaur, I'm on SAS! okay... at work I am SASsy, at home I am SATA too.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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El Corazon wrote: you dinosaur, I'm on SAS! okay... at work I am SASsy, at home I am SATA too.
I have to admit, I was sorely tempted to go SAS 15K this time around, but after looking at the shopping cart total on New Egg I decided not to. I'm stick with SATA 10K and going Blu-Ray. My vid card[^] won't be the latest and greatest, but considering what I'm on now it'll be light years ahead.
I'm just waiting for my check to arrive in the next week or before I click the order button. Life can be tough at times. 
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: But having them on by default is just, well, nas-to the-tay. Yeah, that's technical.
No, it is designed well for your average user who opens documents and surfs the web. You want access to files rapidly. It is not designed for the power user, who beats the disk to death themselves with compiles and file read-writes. But then, Microsoft wrongly assumed the power user was smart enough to turn off the user fluff designed for the secretary. Well, at least they were wrong about some of them. The rest of us paid attention to Vista settings not the secretary.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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El Corazon wrote: No, it is designed well for your average user who opens documents and surfs the web. You want access to files rapidly.
That's just it, the average user doesn't use the HDD enough to make this even viable. I mean you shave off 1 second of load time for your Word doc by hearing the thing churning constantly all day long. That's absurd, especially if you consider the HDD being the slowest part of the system and overusing it is stupid. And it top it off, it's one the last mechanical parts of the system and overusing it will shorten its inherit life span due to friction.
I mean you know as well as I do, that's the justification of doing a light-pass compression on large dat files for games. It's quicker to decompress them in memory than to load it from the HDD directly more times that not. The HDD sucks that much, and to abuse it is asinine IMO.
MS can't out-Mac Apple, they should just stick to copying the pros.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I mean you shave off 1 second of load time for your Word doc by hearing the thing churning constantly all day long.
Whoa, if you think that's even slightly true you have some serious learning to do about how Vista works. You seem to be confusing the indexing feature with the superfetch feature.
Ignorant rants are best received over here[^].
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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John C wrote: Whoa, if you think that's even slightly true you have some serious learning to do about how Vista works. You seem to be confusing the indexing feature with the superfetch feature.
You assume too much. Now since your convinced I know nothing of Vista, could you please show me how this feature saved you so much time for the trade off of making your system less responsive constantly?
Keep in mind I have used Vista, and I'm willing to bet I can hold my weight in this topic. I've seen Superfetch in action and also disabled when running programs like Photoshop, and I'm still prepared to say there's no real noticeable difference in loading my documents and when starting up Photoshop (which I use often) compared to the way XP handled it. But I sure as heck noticed the hard drive not acting crazy.
John C wrote: Ignorant rants are best received over here[^].
Time to learn you somefin yo... Ad hominem[^]
Oh and do make my day and reply with you not being guilty of that just now. I need a laugh. So, I'm ready to receive your infinite wisdom, rather than a passing negative comment that makes you look foolish, and benchmarks to prove otherwise. And do expect me to refute them.
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You go John!!! Tell 'em like it is!
BFinney
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John C wrote: The debate is over, let it go people and ask yourself if you are a true professional Windows developer or a ranting child who would be better off shambling over to Linux and taking your mindless hatred to SlashDot instead.
I answered the poll as an end-user trying to Get Things Done, not as a developer (the poll does say "friends and family.")
As an end user, it is crap. Windows 7 looks like the right direction though.
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