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I've been working for a while on an upcoming story coinciding with Windows Vista's first year on the market, and I've talked with a variety of people who have been using and working with the Microsoft operating system in different ways.
One of the most interesting perspectives came from Jon Bach, president of Puget Systems, a company in Kent, Wash., that makes high-end custom computers. As a preview, I thought it would be worth sharing some excerpts from his comments ...
One of the most interesting perspectives came from Jon Bach, president of Puget Systems, a company in Kent, Wash., that makes high-end custom computers. As a preview, I thought it would be worth sharing some excerpts from his comments ...
On the current demand for Windows XP vs. Windows Vista: "Today, we are seeing still slightly stronger Vista demand than XP, but it's pretty close, maybe 60 percent Vista, 40 percent XP. It was an interesting progression of events following the Vista release, because when Vista first came out, we naturally adopted it very quickly, everyone did, as the next prominent operating system. But we're a custom builder, so we wanted to continue to provide all options, so we kept XP around so that customers who weren't all that excited about upgrading had a choice. So we actually developed a little niche for ourselves there when all the big guys -- Dell, HP -- were going exclusively to Vista. We saw extra-strong XP sales during that time just because we were one of the few people still offering it as an option. But as soon as people realized that Vista had some maturity problems in the code, the big manufacturers promptly added it back. ... We're seeing, you could say 50-50, but it's a little bit swaying toward Vista."
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Vista runs incredibly smoothly with 2 gigs of RAM, though I've had no problems running it with only 1 gig and an Athlon XP 3000 on one of my HTPCs. I think it's entirely acceptable performance for a machine that's three years old.
I'm sure in 2011 after Vista has been out for 5 years and the hardware has gotten a lot faster that this will all be repeated once more with Windows 7.
My figures represent a 80-20 on Xp/Vista sales.
Guess it varies....
Mostly, my family and I just need something that can run on a lower end machine to do basic stuff. Of course, mine's set up for gaming but Vista + gaming would probably kill it (4 year old machine).
Do what?
Crikey my poor S939 X2 with a mere 2gb of RAM manages rather well..
Thanks for the FUD.
My main machine at home is a 2-year-old Athlon X2 3800+ overclocked from factory 2.0GHz to 2.7GHz with 4GB RAM and Vista x64, and I have no complaints. Aside from every day Word documents e-mail and Internet, I do some photo (Photoshop CS3) and video (Sony Vegas 8 Pro) editing, gaming (TF2, Crysis, Quake Wars), development (both in Java and .NET), and use Media Center (with dual TV tuners) and the Zune software alot and it performs perfectly. The only reason I upgraded to 4GB over 2GB is because it was cheap.
I actually tried Vista when it first came out on the same PC, and it was as bad as everyone keeps saying it is, but then I gave it another go sometime in August once a few patches were released and driver support got better and haven't looked back.
Do what?
Crikey my poor S939 X2 with a mere 2gb of RAM manages rather well..
Thanks for the FUD.
Agreed.
Vista runs very well on my system which is a AMD Sempron 2800+ with 1.5Gb RAM and a GF6200 video card.
I've spoken to a few people who don't believe that it can run well on low-end hardware, so I'm tempted to post a video on YouTube showing it running to prove it.
It all depends on what you are doing at the end of the day. Now a days all the OS choices out there will essentially get you to the end result you need, be it internet usage, digital production, gaming or regular work related things. There is no better OS right now but a bevy of good ones.
I have to disagree with you there. Internet usage, yes, it's pretty much the same on every OS. Digital production? Windows and Mac are about equal (imo. some would disagree with me, but they're wrong :-P), but Linux is seriously lacking. Gaming? Mac and Linux are a joke compared to Windows. Work? It depends on what your job is, but I guess I might be able to get by on Linux at work if I had to, and possibly even MacOS...but that'll never happen.
BULLDUST... PROVE IT.
Oh.. wait it's personal OPINION.
To that I would say... good point. I use Vista cuz I'm too lazy to switch back.
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