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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:14 pm
by Mika
I find Xp to be very stable, not sure I want to mess things up
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:30 pm
by nebulae
I kinda agree. I feel that XP SP1 is about as good as Windows ever got for making music. I'll wait a long time until all the Vista performance tweakers come out and take care of bidness before I jump in. I'll likely wait till I get a dual core CPU also before tackling Vista.
Also, another thing to keep in mind is that I don't really need all the bells ans whistles of Vista. After all the tweaking of XP, it looks a lot like Win95 anyway, so why pay for the upgraded hardware and software and then turn off all the unneeded stuff?
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:44 pm
by subterFUSE
I'm waiting until Vista has been officially released for a few months before I purchase any new computer hardware. That way I get Vista from the beginning and don't have to worry about buying upgrades. Plus, I can make sure my hardware specs are sufficient.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:06 pm
by eyeknow
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:09 pm
by nebulae
eyeknow wrote:btw, anyone want to buy a macintel?
Only if it comes with a BJ from Jobs.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:34 pm
by sweetjesus
nebulae wrote:eyeknow wrote:btw, anyone want to buy a macintel?
Only if it comes with a BJ from Jobs.
you can drop the J on BJ since his last name fulfills the purpose anyway.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:41 pm
by eyeknow
eeeeeeewwwwwww!
Just kidding anyways
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:46 pm
by chris vine
b0unce wrote:there should be a mode of operation in some OS, which would basically stop 'everything' and completely devote all its energy into running a single way..
i went from windows 95, to windows XP ...when I saw the spec of the laptop I was salivating, imagining what kind of performance I'd get. Then powered it up and realised [a] XP sucks alot of juice just being on laptops 'bottleneck' performance due to heat/battery issues.
so ya...just a mode for stripping all the bullshit away, and just zoning into whatever apps you need to run this way.
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Yeh, if I could strip away MacOS from a macbook pro and just use Windoze, I'd probably buy one.... 
I like the hardware of those mac lappies but am not a great fan of the OS.
My concerns about Vista are the same - no silly visuals/or any other bloatware that slows it down - including the call home big bro shit that is mentioned in the link above.
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 8:49 pm
by nebulae
sweetjesus wrote:nebulae wrote:eyeknow wrote:btw, anyone want to buy a macintel?
Only if it comes with a BJ from Jobs.
you can drop the J on BJ since his last name fulfills the purpose anyway.
Yeah, too bad his business practices are more tuned to a name like Steve Anal-Rape rather than Steve Jobs.
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:31 am
by shaneblyth
ILTK wrote:I'm not going to upgrade to vista until I know for sure every intrusive DRM feature has been hacked into oblivion, I've allways been about a year behind all new windows versions anyway.
Would also be interesting to know how much of all that eyecandy crap you can turn of, no fading, no flipping, no shades, no rounded corners, no auto updating icons, no UI elements that changes according to use, no menus with icons, give me windows classic look any day, windows reached UI perfection at NT4.0 imo.
if want to turn all the eye candy off i think u might as well stick ith XP
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:35 am
by shaneblyth
chris vine wrote:
Yeh, if I could strip away MacOS from a macbook pro and just use Windoze, I'd probably buy one....
I like the hardware of those mac lappies but am not a great fan of the OS.
couldnt be easier to do.. throw your windows cd in and take over the whole partition.. if u want to run any OS Windows Mac or Linux and that OS only of course you can do that on any Macintel
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:42 am
by eyeknow
did that for shits & giggles.....works fine!
Well, it works as well as it would on any pc.......(ducks as tomatoes and other obsticals)..........
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:18 am
by MrYellow
beta2? Fuck that....
I'll wait for SP1.
-Ben
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:38 am
by yourmom
MrYellow wrote:beta2? Fuck that....
I'll wait for SP1.
-Ben
trut so pur.
xp works just fine for me.
i mean lets face it. vista just wants to be os x. and i already have a fully functional working copy of os x. kthxbi
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:58 am
by glu
Hahaha sorry, I thought this picture was funny from that link you posted...
They look like they found "the real OS..."