Bye bye vista

Combat squirrel

Combat squirrel

Combat squirrel

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Yup wiped it all, vista after almost a year of use, annoys me to much. XPx64 server 2003 edition now. SO FAR, rock solid, isn't dropping hard drives as vista was, faster than a space shuttle on re-entry, can see and use all my 8gb ram and fully loaded with firewalls and anti virus and other bits and bobs, running FF3 and terretec home cinema, 881mb of ram used.

So yeah nippy

It will do until OSX ;)
 
Good luck with XP using your 8GB, 3 gb would be more than plenty in xp lol...
As for dropping/spinning down hard drives, you can disable that you know.

t will do until OSX
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Even worse, Apple= evil :mad:, they're worse than Microsoft.
 
snowdog said:
Good luck with XP using your 8GB, 3 gb would be more than plenty in xp lol...
As for dropping/spinning down hard drives, you can disable that you know.



Even worse, Apple= evil :mad:, they're worse than Microsoft.
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lol, its xp 64 bit, and yes ill use it, im constantly using photoshop and lightroom to edit my photos, is all I do now, eat up 4gb on a quiet day.

Dropping/spinning hard drives? what you mean ? are spinning hard drives linked to harddrives vanishing altogether and not appearing again until I cold boot it (they literally vanish my computer, also from computer management --> harddrives)

xp64, got it right the 1st time, just need OSX to be 64 bit now, I use anything between 4gb to 6gb as said above on a quiet day, if I need to get stuff done quickly, I go over 8gb unfortunately, ran out of ram slots though.
 
I use XP x64 as well - I have a copy of OEM Vista x64 sat on my shelf gathering dust.

I've tried hard to get along with Vista but I just can't. I get issues trying to get updates to apply, also applying SP1 seems to just break my install but without it I have all the annoying launch bugs that I just can't live with.

And don't get me started about the horrible, persistent, annoying activation system that makes me call whenever I dare to do something like actually try and use the computer.

If you can see past all that it's a really nice operating system, it's just that Microsoft seem to have sweeped it's biggest flaws under the proverbial carpet and deny their existence. :/
 
Concorde Rules said:
OS X is 64 bit :confused:

10.5 certainly is...
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Really whats all the talk about snow leopard being 64 bit then ? :confused::)

Im loving x64 right now, EVERYTHING'S JUST WORKING, all my software I used on vista64 which all had there own 'quirks' (things you should and shouldn't do otherwise it would crash), DOESN'T happen here its just running, working fast and fine without hassle, fantastic :)

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To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to advanced hardware, Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM — up to a theoretical 16TB, or 500 times more than what is possible today. More RAM makes applications run faster, because more of their data can be kept in the very fast physical RAM instead of on the much slower hard disk.
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Ahh so the current version does 8+ gb ram now then ? *Ponders a mass exchange to apple pro and laptops even more,lol
 
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i've just dropped vista x64 (although and never had any real complaints with it) and i am currently running server 2008 converted to workstation.

Looks idential to vista, absolutly no driver issues at all (vista ones work perfectly being that server 2008 is built on the vista sp1 platform), and best off all, its one hell of a lot more stable and it does hog so much of my ram.
As someone else said on the WWW, server 2008 is just like a unbloated version of vista, and it certaintly is!!!!

before the days of vista, i used to run server 2003 converted to workstation instead of xp, and loved it then, i can see this being exactly the same.
 
Thats cool, will keep an eye on server for the future, im happy with this now, it works fast and does exactly what I want.

Just had an issue with my c: drive running in PIO mode though, although easily fixed, it being xp,lol.
 
These posts (and the reverse XP to Vista) are becomming quite frequent it's amazing that instead of asking for help with any issues you just blame the operating system and that's it.

It can't possibly be anything else other than Vista and if you think OSX is any better then you are absolutely mad. Talk about limited software support and the fact that gaming is nigh on none existent on there (other than by emulators).

Yes you will have more memory free because of the way Windows uses memory. God get used to it.

Been using Vista now since RC2 and never had a problem with it. The drivers were a little flaky with limited support about 10 months ago but things have moved on and every piece of my hardware is supported. Never had a blue screen, never had a problem that took more than 3 minutes of googling to look into.

And no I don't work for MS marketing (which is a shame as it would be lots of cash!)



M.
 
I tried vista on my old 3500+, and it was shockingly bad. Now I'm using SP1 on my current machine, and I'm starting to quite like it.

Constant 2GB ram usage, but I believe that's mainly due to page, linux does the same thing, yet no one complains about that.
 
I adopted vista from the first day it was officially available and so far I never had a SINGLE problem. Not even the tiniest problem! Vista is a good OS.

Microsoft is microsoft .. but this OS is excellent. Be fair.
 
i'm still undecided whether to stick with XP64lite or Business64lite for my gaming pc

since i've got my xfi working perfectly in Business64, i'm not sure..


Pro's of XP
Tiny install size
Classic search

Pro's of Vista
excellent explorer browsing
wider driver support
awesome indexing (let down by it's weird search interface)
superfetch
 
Works fine here too. A few initial problems but that was 18 months ago. Never "lost" a hard drive, this issue sounds like a chipset driver problem or perhaps a memory issue.
 
m4cc45 said:
These posts (and the reverse XP to Vista) are becomming quite frequent it's amazing that instead of asking for help with any issues you just blame the operating system and that's it.

It can't possibly be anything else other than Vista and if you think OSX is any better then you are absolutely mad. Talk about limited software support and the fact that gaming is nigh on none existent on there (other than by emulators).

Yes you will have more memory free because of the way Windows uses memory. God get used to it.

Been using Vista now since RC2 and never had a problem with it. The drivers were a little flaky with limited support about 10 months ago but things have moved on and every piece of my hardware is supported. Never had a blue screen, never had a problem that took more than 3 minutes of googling to look into.

And no I don't work for MS marketing (which is a shame as it would be lots of cash!)



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Thats nice, any ideas on how to stop it randomly losing hard drives? now THATS defo annoying, xp64 is fine so far.

Guess it must be a driver issue, am using a gigabyte p35-dq6 ddr2, I had the latest intel drivers on it, never stopped doing in, same driver package works fine here and now on this os (x64)

And why should I sit and mess with it for years on end to make it work ? I paid money for a product and I expect it to work instantly, I need to get work done on my pc, not tweak it (although some people on this forum obviously enjoy tweaking there pc's, I used to, but no more, I want it to work now)
 
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