XP is dead: No more dodging the Vista bullet?

[darien87]

I have Vista on my PC, and it works pretty well. Granted, I don't do anything with my PC other than surf the internet and download music. The constant, "Do you want to continue?" messages are indeed HELLA annoying.

The weird thing is that my PC used to boot up hella fast. But our subscription to Trend Anti-virus expired and my wife went to update it, but it wouldn't work for some reason. So Trend tech support told her to disable some security feature or something and now it takes FOREVER to boot up. The PC has also crashed a few times, and it NEVER did that before whatever it was that Trend told her to do.

 

[MinusTheBear]

I have Vista on my PC, and it works pretty well. Granted, I don't do anything with my PC other than surf the internet and download music. The constant, "Do you want to continue?" messages are indeed HELLA annoying.

The weird thing is that my PC used to boot up hella fast. But our subscription to Trend Anti-virus expired and my wife went to update it, but it wouldn't work for some reason. So Trend tech support told her to disable some security feature or something and now it takes FOREVER to boot up. The PC has also crashed a few times, and it NEVER did that before whatever it was that Trend told her to do.

I have been using AVG free edition for a couple of years and have no complaints. They just updated to AVG 8.0 free edition. AVG is windows vista compatible and have had no problems with compatibility.. I use this for my ant-virus. It is an excellent free anti-virus program. This anti-virus is not a RAM hog either.

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

 

[Darth Mike]

I too use AVG Free, but the new 8.0 version eats more resources than the older one, and they have quit supporting the old one.

 

[Halon451]

I too use AVG Free, but the new 8.0 version eats more resources than the older one, and they have quit supporting the old one.

AVG started out great, but has become a bloated system resource hogging POS, in my opinion with the newest version. As much as I hate to admit it, after installing Vista on my machine (YES, the 'Do you want to continue' messages are indeed a royal pain), I reluctantly switched back to the newest version of an old personal nemsis, Norton Internet Security. This time around, the 2008 version, and only after reading countless reviews of its superior performance against the rest of the bunch. I have to say, the folks at Symantec have gotten it right at last. This is one lean, mean security suite that starts up instantly with a system boot up and sits quietly in the background, without taking a toll on resources. From what I understand, most testers gave it the highest marks regarding firewall and intrusion protection, the same testers who literally knocked holes through AVG and the like to get in.

Oh, and Vista's screensavers are way cooler looking...

By the way Darth Mike - love the sig! When are you going to change that? These audioholics around here aren't going to let you get away with that for too long...

 

[Darth Mike]

AVG started out great, but has become a bloated system resource hogging POS, in my opinion with the newest version. As much as I hate to admit it, after installing Vista on my machine (YES, the 'Do you want to continue' messages are indeed a royal pain), I reluctantly switched back to the newest version of an old personal nemsis, Norton Internet Security. This time around, the 2008 version, and only after reading countless reviews of its superior performance against the rest of the bunch. I have to say, the folks at Symantec have gotten it right at last. This is one lean, mean security suite that starts up instantly with a system boot up and sits quietly in the background, without taking a toll on resources. From what I understand, most testers gave it the highest marks regarding firewall and intrusion protection, the same testers who literally knocked holes through AVG and the like to get in.

Oh, and Vista's screensavers are way cooler looking...

By the way Darth Mike - love the sig! When are you going to change that? These audioholics around here aren't going to let you get away with that for too long...

I'm trying avast! as an alternative soon, just to compare the free software. I think it'll be about the same.

I agree Vista has some cool visual stuff, but the performance loss isn't worth it to me and my meager affordable machines.

I wanted to start a new system after a clean sweep, but I postponed due to very unforgiving neighbors who complain at a pindrop (apartments, I swear paper divides us). I since have gone out of the loop after getting back into my car and the performance market again, decided I can't spend that much on my car with the fuel costs right now I can't even afford to drive as much anymore. I wanted to do some auditioning and listen to the new budget equipment out there, and since I also love movies build a great sounding 5.1 system that won't cost a mint or be super intrusive, but the last time I looked the Onix X-LS were new and are rather large, and I was considering the Klipsch Quintet III satellites with a Hsu STF-1. I can't ever have a big sub or loud listening levels here.

 

[Matt34]

The OP starts this one and only thread and POOFFFFFF ........... disappears.





XP FOR LIFE MANG!!!!

 

[Gimpy Ric]

XP FOR LIFE MANG!!!!

I love XP. Vista makes me sick. Fedora Nine on my spare Thinkpad.

 

[Nomo]

The OP starts this one and only thread and POOFFFFFF ........... disappears.[/SIZE]

Well he did hang around for 2 (hopefully quality) minutes afterward.

 

[Adam]

Well he did hang around for 2 (hopefully quality) minutes afterward.

Yep. Poor guy probably installed Vista after his post and couldn't make it back.

 

[MinusTheBear]

The OP starts this one and only thread and POOFFFFFF ........... disappears.


Obviously this guy was an Apple troll. The Apple fanboys are brutal. I frequent many message boards and the biggest fanboys of them all are the videogame console fanboys AKA Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. They actually have made up names for each group of fanboys. Nintendo fanboys are called Sheep, Microsoft fanboys are called Lemmings and Sony fanboys are called Cows. Imagine if Apple got into the console wars....lol. It would be anarchy.

 

[Warpdrv]

Well I was searching around about stuff.... and found this old used thread sorry to drudge it up....

My 5 year old Toshiba is freakin out as the motherboard is going out. So i'm in the market for a new Laptop and was very worried about getting a computer that was strictly limited Vista with Windows 7 coming out in 2 years or so... they are referring to Vista as "Windows ME 2" and I have really been dedicated to the balance of XP.

I ended up narrowing my search down to business computers where they offer the option of Vista business with downgrade to Windows Xp Pro, so I get the computer with both Options.

Now looking about at computers I was not looking for a gaming machine, but a sleek, reliable, quality built machine that has a good amount of options, that is going to last me for years to come.... I ended up narrowing down that list to just a few.....

HP's Business Laptops, too many models to list
Lenovo (old IBM) Thinkpad
Dell Latitude E6500

I hope I made the right descision, but I ended up with the newly revised Dell Latitude E6500. If it turns out to be a piece of cr@p I'll send it back.
But Its got an impressive list of features...Backlit keyboard, camera, fingerprint scan... lots of goodies and I think it looks sleek

It really seems that everything out on the market seems to be pretty much cheap and unreliable these days. Shopping at all the local places, BB, CC Office Max and Depot have the same unimpressive junk..

This will be my first Dell, I have worked on a few of them for other people, and they seemed fine, but never owned one... I have read they were pretty durable machines, and I thought they looked pretty nice as well...

thoughts?

 

[Adam]

Hey, Warp. Congrats on your purchase. I was nervous about going to Vista a couple of months ago, but it's been fairly seemless so far. I think that my only issues have arisen because I got the 64-bit version. Other than that, it really is a nice OS, IMO.

As for the Dell's, I've heard good things about the laptops from people that have them. I seriously considered getting a Dell laptop for myself and/or my parents. I ended up going with Macs for both of us, but I really did like the looks and specs of the Dells.

 

[Warpdrv]

I looked at the Mac's, but they were more then I wanted to spend, and my whole network is laid out based on windows... $2.5 to $3K for a comparable Mac unit...

I got this new Dell for $1400.00... I guess we'll see how it goes...

 

[Nomo]

My last 2 computers have been from Dell. Desk tops. No complaints. I don't plan to switch brands any time soon.

 

[emorphien]

I just got a new Thinkpad myself, a new Lenovo designed model, the T400. It's pretty loaded and I got a really good deal on it (over $700 off). So far it lives up to what I have come to expect based on my older IBM Thinkpads (X31 which I'm on now and my T43p which was from just before Lenovo started to take over three or so years ago and which I may sell soon since the T400 is basically meant to replace the T43p).

It came with Vista Business 64 (at my choosing) but I performed a clean install of that to have just what I want on it a few days ago. Solid machine, great performance and battery life and it runs quite cool too.

 

[Warpdrv]

I looked at the T500, but comparable units always came back several hundred dollars over what I paid for the Latitude E6500... which was already a couple hundred over my budget...

I wanted at least a 15" screen....

 

[jonnythan]

Vista is better than XP.

 

[Warpdrv]

Vista is better than XP.

For What......

 

[emorphien]

multitasking, in my experience. Also search, memory utilization, ShadowCopy is handy (if you use it, but it does take up drive space obviously) and it does a better job of running background tasks without them actually slowing down your work than XP... to name a few improvements I've noticed.

 

[Warpdrv]

multitasking, in my experience. Also search, memory utilization, ShadowCopy is handy (if you use it, but it does take up drive space obviously) and it does a better job of running background tasks without them actually slowing down your work than XP... to name a few improvements I've noticed.

Well, all in all Vista seems a little bloaty and quite the memory hog, but I haven't had an extensive amount of time to spend with it myself, but I'll be putting it to the test after I get the new unit and run a dual boot with Vista Business...

I am looking forward to taking it for a ride to see how it stacks up for me...