Win 7, bloody expensive for a 'vista service pack' !!

[Rusty Dai]

Originally Posted by Riverwind

As for Apple, they are wonderful machines, if you understand that you can never upgrade it, you get what you get, it has great graphics, does not number crunch very well, its the tool of choice for web design or so I have been told, it has its place. it just doesn't have a place at my place.

River

You are correct, Macs are wonderful. I love all 6 of mine.

It is not totally correct that Macs cannot be upgraded. I've done various upgrades, HDs and Memory. Don't need to upgrade other components, they work just fine. Mine all "crunch" numbers extremely well. However, I can upgrade the video, but don't need to. Have two monitors on my main machine, lots of territory when working with the graphics.

And they come with some many useful programs out of the box.

Have to use windows XP at work. Prefer Mac OS X over that any day.

If you like your windows box and OS, it is the right thing to have. Don't care for games except Burning Monkey Solitaire. I went Mac in 1996 and have been much happier ever since with my computing experience.

[Senjougahara]

Didn't expect to see so many fellow Linux users on this forum. And they say androgen deprivation can lead to loss of cognitive function

[fhunter]

Originally Posted by Senjougahara

Didn't expect to see so many fellow Linux users on this forum. And they say androgen deprivation can lead to loss of cognitive function

Add one more linux user here .
IMO, linux is much more logical, than windows.

[Kortpeel]

Originally Posted by Silver21662

im still running on good old xp pro sp3, with updates till today etc. using nlite, i can shrink the nuts out of xp. down to 300mb installed size, without pagefile etc. ram usage, inc my ati drivers, is around 100mb. using services batch files, i can turn off un needed services with a click and reboot...

This posting is a classic example of jargon, a technique used by the in-group to exclude outsiders. Doctors are the worst offenders because they've been at it much longer but computer people are rapidly catching them up.

My translation of what Silver21662 is saying is that he has pared down his XP operating system by removing stuff that he doesn't want from it and has thereby freed a lot of disk space and RAM and saves time on booting up.

Furthermore he intends to stay on XP for as long as he can.

Have I understood you correctly , Silver?

Regarding AMD and Intel, my friendly local computer expert who charges me a fortune every few years when some hardware failure occurs, advised me to go Intel because if there is a guarantee claim Intel will honour it, no questions asked, whereas AMD won't. At my level of knowledge I don't give a stuff what is inside as long as it works.

Kortpeel

[IbPervert]

Originally Posted by stewie69

My old desktop came equipped with XP. I hardly use it anymore, since my experience with XP has been less than pleasant. It has gone into crash-and-burn mode more often than I can count, and has trashed many files I was too foolish to backup. And, the number of days of my life I've pissed away re-installing XP...

So, I bought a notebook with Vista shortly after it came out. I may be on a short list here, but I've actually been very pleased with it, and it has never let me down. Currently, I have no desire to "upgrade" to 7, or jump ship to Mac.

I have been using XP since a month before it was available at retail and with very little software problems. However, the vast majority of computer problems can be traced to

1) Viruses, Malware, Drive by Downloads and problems the sprout forth between the brain and the finger tips.

2) Hardware that is really not compatible even though it says it is, and the software drives they use.

3) Other software that is installed (not OS) can cause problems as well.

[stewie69]

Originally Posted by IbPervert

I have been using XP since a month before it was available at retail and with very little software problems. However, the vast majority of computer problems can be traced to

1) Viruses, Malware, Drive by Downloads and problems the sprout forth between the brain and the finger tips.

2) Hardware that is really not compatible even though it says it is, and the software drives they use.

3) Other software that is installed (not OS) can cause problems as well.

I suppose any of those things may be true, but even so, I use the Vista machine essentially the same way, and with the same peripherals, as the old desktop, and it simply works. On many occasions, the same could not be said of the XP machine. Right or wrong, XP just left a bad impression on me.