-Medic- Posted December 4, 2005 Share Posted December 4, 2005 So !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuz Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 i woldnt xp does the job...and vista will need a relly good pc to run all the features so meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thagame Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwBen Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I wouldn't - I'm waiting for OSX 10.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doli Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 "For the new look" ? You use a OS to do things on it. You want something to look at buy a painting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Lamar Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Both, but I can assure u that a few will get pirated copies and complain that its trash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxster17 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 It'd be both for me if I get around to buying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Well, I like to keep my PC updated with the latest technology, so that's the main reason I'll be buying Vista. But on the same token, for the new look, the new features, the improved security, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riojin Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 "For the new look" ? You use a OS to do things on it. You want something to look at buy a painting. i agree i voted for something else. i couldnt care less for security, ive never had any probs (thats not an invite for problems :( ) and new look? look above ill but cause i know that xp will be fazed out and vista will be the thing cause its newer. i wouldnt buy straight away, prolly pirate if possible first to try it but still run xp for my main user ops, then buy a licence when theres more that runs on vista with no probs. i wouldnt buy straight up for 2 reasons, 1-price, 2-itll be a headache like all new os's are until a few months in and more bug fixes and programs become available for them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 If you want a new look, use WindowBlinds 5.. lol Thats a lame reason to upgrade. The only reason why I would upgrade is if its more stable, & has new and better features than XP. At this time I'm still not impressed with Vista, and yes I know its beta still and all the features aren't in it. WMP 11, IE7, and Windows Defender will all be for XP and will be in Vista. :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I will SERIOUSLY consider buying Vista IF the following are in the final product (plus others I can't think of right now): 1- MUI: Being able to switch the entire UI language to another language without reboot and also install/use Vista based on your lanuage preference at the start of an install. 2- Hot patching: Not having to restart after every single update/program I install. 3- Fast install: I WANT 20 MIN INSTALLS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffra Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 i dont know how vista will look or behave when its final. anyway, my next laptop purchase should come with vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Good points HoochieMamma, I heard hot patching of some sort is goin to be in vista :) Then again so were a lot of things.. lol.. sigh, I hope they don't pull sumthin out at the last minute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunamonkey Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I might give up on PCs for gaming next year, and only use them for email / browsing, so I can keep at least one of my current 4 PCs just for that and run XP on them fine. So, I probably won't be upgrading this machine to run vista at it's optimum next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smigit Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Both, but my main reason is just to stay up to date. After a year or 2 you will see programs/hardware (drivers) being released that may not support XP or are optomised for Vista in some way or another. I just like staying ontop of technology. Buying for looks alone is a bit pointless, Windows Blinds can do that for a fraction of the price and in terms of security I have programs to handle that and with vista I will continue to use those programs. In the end its a combination of both elements, the new features and future compatibility that will compell me to upgrade. Everything I've heard so far indicates that while it may not be revolutionary, it certainly is evolutionary and that enough is reason to buy it. Even if I cant do more than I can now, if I can do it easier, more quickly and with less hassle then Microsoft has done a good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mram Subscriber² Posted December 7, 2005 Subscriber² Share Posted December 7, 2005 If you want a new look, use WindowBlinds 5.. lolThats a lame reason to upgrade. I beg to differ. The "new look" is derived from a totally new core rendering engine: Windows Presentation Foundation, previously Avalon. What it does in a nutshell is render things using DirectX (in a very basic fashion) offloading what is currently being done in CPU cycles to the GPU. I'll grant you that WindowsBlinds could achieve the same looky-feely of Vista, it does so at a huge CPU cost. Vista will be able to do what WindowsBlinds does now, on the equivalent hardware, at half or less the CPU cost, meaning your machine generally just runs faster. And that means that the WindowsBlinds for Vista products can enhance it just that much more. The proof? Open up task manager in XP and look at the performance tab, then pick up any other window and drag it around the screen. You'll notice tearing of the interface, and the CPU will double, if not triple, or even peg out at 100%. Then do that again in Vista. That's reason enough right there. So saying that you can get the same features as Vista by adding on to an old OS is like saying you can give a pinto the power of a porche with some nitro. Great, but you might blow it out. :D Having said all that, I voted "other" because of basically what I said here. There is so much core architecture being changed for the benefit of performance, future technology, speed, etc, that it's very hard to pinpoint one specific item that makes it the killer ugprade, and for that, it's worthy enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the godfather Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 everything is going to be optimised and made for Vista as everything is for XP today, not to say it wont run on other OS's but itll run on Vista best, thats why i want it. Plus its pretty and new :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted December 7, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 7, 2005 Aero/Glass is much more than a "new look." And while I personally think the new looks are a lot better than XP, I'm more interested in the improved useability features and cleaner/faster UI that result from the huge changes made to the way Vista works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toastyone Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Well since I have started using Tiger as my main OS and sold my main Windows computer, I don't think I will be getting it..... but if I was I would get it because hey it is the new Windows and XP is freakin old :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahhell Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 What do you mean by "buy"? :shiftyninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madnuke Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Well since I have started using Tiger as my main OS and sold my main Windows computer, I don't think I will be getting it..... but if I was I would get it because hey it is the new Windows and XP is freakin old :p I'm getting preaty tired of people going 'I wont cos I own a mac, look I'm an attention ######!!!' I wont be buying it, at work I will be given a nice new OEM copy seeing as you get lots of goodies like that if your in the Microsoft System builders network thing. Reasons for buying it would be the security, we all remember the 'your system will shut down in 5 minutes....' and virus alert after virus alert before SP2 with XP. The other fact is MS wont keep on supporting XP for ever, others are that the no restart feature would be nice after you do updates, glass and the new themes would be a nice theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewisBraid Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 i'd only buy it for the security features.. and maybe the visual side if they get rid of that horrid transparent crap. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lasker Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I will get for free, I?m beta tester:)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delox Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 I beg to differ. The "new look" is derived from a totally new core rendering engine: Windows Presentation Foundation, previously Avalon. What it does in a nutshell is render things using DirectX (in a very basic fashion) offloading what is currently being done in CPU cycles to the GPU. I'll grant you that WindowsBlinds could achieve the same looky-feely of Vista, it does so at a huge CPU cost. Vista will be able to do what WindowsBlinds does now, on the equivalent hardware, at half or less the CPU cost, meaning your machine generally just runs faster. And that means that the WindowsBlinds for Vista products can enhance it just that much more. The proof? Open up task manager in XP and look at the performance tab, then pick up any other window and drag it around the screen. You'll notice tearing of the interface, and the CPU will double, if not triple, or even peg out at 100%. Then do that again in Vista. That's reason enough right there. If you bothered to check, WindowBlinds 5 actually does the rendering via the GPU. The program uses the wblind.dll file instead of the Uxtheme.dll library bundled with XP, which makes the system much faster than the system currenly in XP. I have noticed that applications tend to be more responsive, and don't tear as often, and yet the screen is filled with more eye candy. On the note of Vista, I'll be getting it for the features that make it easier to find your files, increased security out of the box, and for the new rendering engine, which looks stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mx Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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