Windows Vista - Good, Bad or Downright Ugly? - Page 3

SUBMAN1 · 02-15-08, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

I challenge someone to show me 'one' good thing that Vista does that XP doesn't do better. I have yet to find that one thing.

ReadyBoost?

Slow, unweildy, and possibly much much slower than virtual memory since my RAID at home can sustain 109 MB/sec (tested with Sandra) and the fastest flash drives (I have a Sandisk Cruiser titanium) sustain about 15 MB/sec. The only thing missing would be the clickity clack of the hard drive if you used Readyboost.

Maybe in the future this will be a good idea when flash memory and its USB interface goes faster than mechanical drives, but for the short term - its a major major major (did I emphasize that enough?) downgrade to using your hard drive instead.

-S

PS. A single normal generic 300 GB or so hard drive by the way can still sustain 40 to 50 MB/sec no problem.

hammer-princess · 02-16-08, 12:05 PM

I've never used Vista, don't want to and never will do. And if I am forced to I will have Bernard fire me out a torpedo tube strapped to a torpedo!

Stealth Hunter · 02-16-08, 04:51 PM

Hate it. It's all eye candy and not reliability. There's tons of games, programs, and utilities (i.e. printers, scanners, etc.) that are not compatible with it, and there are even more that ARE compatible, although they tend to be a pain to try and install. Vista was a big let-down. Hopefully, Microsoft's next major operating system will be much better.

hammer-princess · 02-21-08, 11:31 AM

That's a big 'hopefully' there, mate.

02-16-08, 12:05 PM	#32
hammer-princess Watch Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In a rusty old sub Posts: 28 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I've never used Vista, don't want to and never will do. And if I am forced to I will have Bernard fire me out a torpedo tube strapped to a torpedo! __________________ And so the torpedo went 'tick-tock-BOOM!' The captain asked one of the crew: "Why is there a hole in OUR sub?!" To which the crewman replied "I put the torpedo in the wrong way round!" BTW, if anyone's interested in meh fanfic 'Paper Mario - What REALLY Happened', look up 'Paper Mario Story' on http://thebunnyhunter.deviantart.com

02-21-08, 11:31 AM	#34
hammer-princess Watch Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: In a rusty old sub Posts: 28 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That's a big 'hopefully' there, mate. __________________ And so the torpedo went 'tick-tock-BOOM!' The captain asked one of the crew: "Why is there a hole in OUR sub?!" To which the crewman replied "I put the torpedo in the wrong way round!" BTW, if anyone's interested in meh fanfic 'Paper Mario - What REALLY Happened', look up 'Paper Mario Story' on http://thebunnyhunter.deviantart.com

02-16-08, 04:51 PM	#33
Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Hate it. It's all eye candy and not reliability. There's tons of games, programs, and utilities (i.e. printers, scanners, etc.) that are not compatible with it, and there are even more that ARE compatible, although they tend to be a pain to try and install. Vista was a big let-down. Hopefully, Microsoft's next major operating system will be much better.