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boost
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11-30-2008, 05:49 PM
Post subject: My guilty pleasure: Vista
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Full House
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I bought a new laptop recently, an asus g50vt, it has vista premium 64bit and I love it!
why does everyone else hate it?
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bigred
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PROFESSIONAL TROLL
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i haven't used it yet, no hate
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LOL OPERATIONS
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shazbox
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Straight
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I hated it really bad on my new laptop, until I put XP back on it and realized my laptop is just a big piece of shit that can't work using any operating system. Now I am impartial.
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bikes
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a hot damn mess
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I fkn hate vista with a passion that mere words cannot describe.
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I damage threads that may actually benefit some posters
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bigred
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Originally Posted by Bbickes
I fkn hate vista with a passion that mere words cannot describe.
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that kind of described it...
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LOL OPERATIONS
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Jack Sawyer
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Vista is OK
I've been using it for pretty much a year and a half now.
No issues. It can be a resourcehog on older systems though.
Its not perfect, but its OK. Vista hating is just the next trendy thing to do IMO
Also, consider one of these for your laptop
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Full House
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I like it too and ive never understood why people dont like it.
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Because it sucks.
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Numbr2intheWorld
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Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
Vista is OK
I've been using it for pretty much a year and a half now.
No issues. It can be a resourcehog on older systems though.
Its not perfect, but its OK. Vista hating is just the next trendy thing to do IMO
Also, consider one of these for your laptop |
Can you elaborate on what this is exactly?
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Jack Sawyer
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A hard drive without moving parts.
faster and more durable than a traditional hard drive
Edit: That one is a cheap one. Intel's X-25 M is the current king of the hill in SSD drives. It rings in at 80GB, and has sustained read speeds of 250 MB/s, and sustainedwrite speeds of 70 MB/s. Hovwever, these cost close to $650 currently.
This means that everything runs like a Kenyan in your computer.
This drive, assuming an extraordinary workload of say 20GB passing on it daily, should last for about 15 years. Current drives fail on average about 5 years in.
The next gen drive from intel, the X-25 E, uses SLC rather than MLC technology. In layman's terms, you get even faster write performance (170 MB/s on average write speed) but get a size penalty, as the same sizes would be much more costly with SLC as opposed to MLC. We're talking roughly 3.2x price per gigabyte here. Here's a review.
But the next drive should also last about 350 years (!!!) given the same workload.
Its a great time to be a kompootah usar
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VHS is like a book and a book is like a stack of kindles.
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kevster
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11-30-2008, 11:36 PM
Post subject: Re: My guilty pleasure: Vista
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Full House
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Originally Posted by boost
why does everyone else hate it?
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Because it keeps doing things I never asked it to.
I'm running linux on my laptop (Stars and FT work fine over Wine) and when I get around to replacing my PC, I'm probably going to go for linux on that too and say goodbye to Windows for good.
There's so much quality open source stuff about these days, I really don't see the need for it.
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JESUS TAKE THE KEYBOARD
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this plus all of your other posts means something about your character. The content of which is under close judgment by me.
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Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Precisely.
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swiggidy
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I have never used it. I hate it because it's such a resource hog. A 2Ghz, 500MB PC is WAAAAAY more than sufficient for any hockey mom to check her e-mail and search for recipes.
I would also rather have 5 small programs specifically tailored for 5 tasks than one big program that does all of them moderately efficiently (e.g. ripping, burning, playing music, playing movies, downloading music)
(it's similar to manual vs automatic transmission)
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boost
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Full House
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Originally Posted by swiggidy
I have never used it. I hate it because it's such a resource hog. A 2Ghz, 500MB PC is WAAAAAY more than sufficient for any hockey mom to check her e-mail and search for recipes.
I would also rather have 5 small programs specifically tailored for 5 tasks than one big program that does all of them moderately efficiently (e.g. ripping, burning, playing music, playing movies, downloading music)
(it's similar to manual vs automatic transmission)
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ahh, the analogy helps a lot. I understand then, however Im still enjoying it. I guess Ive just grown out of my computer tinkering stage. I just want to turn it on and go.
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boost
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Full House
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I dont get how anyone who plays poker can watch/read/listen to any mainstream media and take it for face value. They arent just lying to us about poker people...
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