Ok Vista beta testers-question ?

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October 10th, 2006, 08:58 AM
egghead

yes moving to Windows Vista as soon as openvpn works like XP.....

dam, are you really going to miss out on Directx 10 and the games????

Egghead
October 10th, 2006, 17:44 PM
Curio

If you use an old PC then use an old OS - the OS that was designed for that level of hardware. New OSes are designed to accomodate features and abilities of modern hardware and future hardware. I don't see a problem.
October 10th, 2006, 18:11 PM
Reverend

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curio

New OSes are designed to accomodate features and abilities of modern hardware and future hardware. I don't see a problem.

Who is that directed at?

I didn't say it was a problem, i merely stated that driver support at the moment is limited, but of course this will be resolved with the official release. I accept that generally any new OS will have these issues.

Fortunately my system is way above the "recommended minimum". :)

As i said earlier i dual boot it with XP. I use Vista as my main OS but retain the XP option just incase there are any problems.
October 11th, 2006, 00:55 AM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curio

If you use an old PC then use an old OS - the OS that was designed for that level of hardware. New OSes are designed to accomodate features and abilities of modern hardware and future hardware. I don't see a problem.

New OSes should also be able to accomodate older hardware as well. After all for an OS to be successful it should be installed on as many machines as possible.... To force a customer to upgrade their entire system to suit the OS seems more like Apple than Microsoft.

The problem lies in the millions of old computers that will go into the landfill because they won't run on Windows Vista. If you don't see a problem in that you need to take a visit to one of the "recycling centers" for PC material in China Pakistan, or India...

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...y-contaminates
October 11th, 2006, 01:55 AM
phishhead

well just got the 64bit vista from our works msdn. gonna install that probably tomorrow and see how much faster or more stable it is.
October 11th, 2006, 20:28 PM
Curio

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Booger

New OSes should also be able to accomodate older hardware as well. After all for an OS to be successful it should be installed on as many machines as possible.... To force a customer to upgrade their entire system to suit the OS seems more like Apple than Microsoft.

The problem lies in the millions of old computers that will go into the landfill because they won't run on Windows Vista. If you don't see a problem in that you need to take a visit to one of the "recycling centers" for PC material in China Pakistan, or India...

http://www.greenpeace.org/internatio...y-contaminates

Oh well we can disagree then. Last time I looked no-one was being forced to run Vista.
October 12th, 2006, 02:52 AM
Big Booger

Back to the topic. I just installed 5744, on the same PIII 1.0ghz machine with 512MB of ram, and the install went well. However it took forever.

The machine boots fine, sees all the hardware and works great. I will be testing it a bit more tonight but so far so good.
October 12th, 2006, 09:30 AM
PIPER

I'm with Rev on this one.....:D
October 12th, 2006, 09:33 AM
PIPER

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reverend

Who is that directed at?

I didn't say it was a problem, i merely stated that driver support at the moment is limited, but of course this will be resolved with the official release. I accept that generally any new OS will have these issues.

Fortunately my system is way above the "recommended minimum". :)

As i said earlier i dual boot it with XP. I use Vista as my main OS but retain the XP option just incase there are any problems.

again I am with the Rev.....
October 12th, 2006, 13:23 PM
rik

:kissass:

:msnwink:
October 15th, 2006, 02:30 AM
Gary

I have been testing various builds ogf Vista for the last 7 months and I do planto upgrade to it maybe by next July.
October 15th, 2006, 02:41 AM
egghead

Quote:

Originally Posted by egghead

yes moving to Windows Vista as soon as openvpn works like XP.....

got openvpn working fine and love the OS.

only problem left is that I do not know how to add all my outlook messages and settings from the other hard drived to the new outlook in vista.

once i can do that i will no longer need to reboot to other hard drive to check my mail.
October 21st, 2006, 03:40 AM
bionicblond

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Originally Posted by Big Booger

That's quite a jump. And that's the bare minimum.

How do you go from 1.5 GB of hard disk space to 15GB???? And from 128MB of ram to 512MB???? And from a processor speed of 233mhz to 800mhz????

Please tell me why an Operating System needs 15GB of space? And at the bare minimum you don't get the aero effects as well.

wow that is a jump... I think it is to force cheap people like myself to purchase better systems in order to use the internet. I mean if I am getting this all correctly, they won't be offering support in 2008 so a person like myself using a system that is unable to make the jump will effectively be shut out.
October 21st, 2006, 19:54 PM
Curio

Please people get over this forcing you to use Vista rubbish, nobody is forcing anybody to use Vista. If you have older hardware you can use a myriad of OSes which will operate just fine on it.
October 21st, 2006, 21:33 PM
piaqt

But then they'd have to find another dead horse to beat.

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