i wont lie, there is no way im reading that whole thing, especially at 4:45 am. i did read some of it though. mostly the opening and the closing. if i wasnt about to go to bed, maybe i would read the whole thing. who knows?
but there were a few things i felt i should reply too, the first is this quote
"You probably hated XP because it was running on your slow, old PC - so you bought a new Vista PC and love it, because it has the specs to run the programs you were running with XP and do the things you were doing with XP."
no, my old pc was a pent 4 2.6 ghz, 1 GB, 200 GB storage with a 6600 in it....so ya, it wasnt that great....
then i installed vista on it and i ran on it for 6 months and preferred it over XP. then i got my new computer and it blows me away cause ive got some nice stuff in their, what with my raid, my 1.5 TB storage, 8800GT (sli when i need it, but i have to disable it to dual screen) etc etc, i really dont think this is relevant so ill just move on.
ok, lets do this 1 paragraph at a time started with the 3rd paragraph (the one where you actually started)
ok, so you basically did confirm what i said...instead of having to install stuff like in the past, now you have to uninstall/disable stuff. ya, it comes with Fax stuff and voice recognition stuff etc etc....except you can turn all that stuff off. yes, it does still eat up some hard drive space, but quite frankly, unless your still on a tiny ol 30 GB hdd, i dont think you should worry about it.
now, this one is about vista being slow on slow machines...this is a pretty moot argument if you ask me. again, when XP came out people were like OMG YOU NEED 512 MB RAM TO MAKE IT RUN SMOOTH BLAH BLAH BLAH. with the way ram is going, its only gonna be a few years till 4 GB is standard. ever wonder why macs run smooth? its not cause they are better with ram, its cause they force you to have more ram. their low end stuff (iirc) is still at 2 GB which is usually high end for a pre built windows machine(though thats starting to change). fact of the matter is, WE NEED MORE RAM. i dont like macs at all, but its one thing they did right. they gave people ram cause we USE IT.
"Super Prefetch is just a fancy term to describe an extension to something XP already does - use the unused RAM for caching and preloading."
yes, it is an extension of something XP does. im completely aware of that....so wait, how is XP better on this one?
i dont know what XP your installing to get it down to just 1.1 GB. never in my life have i seen an XP install THAT tiny.
it might have been a bad stick...but pull it out, move it around, mess with it all i wanted to, it wouldnt work. the same happened with a brand new RAM stick on my new pc (had to rma it). it does indeed happen. RAM goes bad. kinda like how hard drives will EVENTUALLY die(in their case, the mechanics fail and the disk stops spinning).
how is vista not stable? i cant even think of a time when i last had to do a hard shut down, force quit a program, or had any problems at all. it was daily on XP (through out the life of an XP machine ive ever used). and dont get started on that silly DRM stuff. its basically all about high def media (aka blu ray) playing on a monitor with out hdcp.
and "This is improved?" yes, it is. just cause you dont know your way around yet, doesnt mean it isnt improved.
ok, so programs dont actually lock up, but windows thinks they locked up.....but either way, we have the same effect. that being, it sucks.
it was your fault for ever using IE or WMP. but fact of the matter is, they are just as bad on XP so that point is moot. firefox, vlc, winamp, etc etc...you get the idea.
