Andrew 30 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Went out and grabbed an OEM copy of Business edition (all that was handy + i don't need the media centre shizzle). Running on Dell Inspiron 9300 - 2 GHz Centrino, 1 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce Go 6800 So much faster than XP - badass. Install was easy as Windows always has been. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martyyn 2 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 What did that set you back ?...we have the same laptop but mines a 2.13 centrino Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Alchemy 0 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Yeah using Vista Enterprise as my work desktop for testing purposes right now. It is awesome and definaetly a big step up from Windows XP and I dont want to go back. Still alot of problems to be worked out so 6-12 months before I would recommend using it as a primary Operating System. And for anyone who does any Active directory admin stuff be warned that the admin tools dont function 100% yet. Not all NT software functions and hardware drivers have away to catch up. If your buying a new PC i would get Vista installed tho. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 280 for an OEM version. Have found NUMEROUS bugs with IE 7 that didn't happen in XP. IT takes days to open bimmersport. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ED1RTY 2 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 (edited) MAC OS 10.4.8 FTW! The new one coming out - Panther, it wil rock Edited January 31, 2007 by sakdbma Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
my_e36 43 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Got hook-ups if anyone wants to buy them. 250-ish for business 32 bit, 350-ish for ultimate 32-bit. 64 bit cost extra 20 bucks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Pimp seriously - The networking is MUCH more advanced. Work DHCP server is doing pretty cool things like giving it a FQDN even on a non domain network. Nice. And seriously - how badass is this snippet tool? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martyyn 2 Report post Posted January 31, 2007 Got hook-ups if anyone wants to buy them. 250-ish for business 32 bit, 350-ish for ultimate 32-bit. 64 bit cost extra 20 bucks.PM'd Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deftones 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 MAC OS 10.4.8 FTW! The new one coming out - Panther, it wil rock Leopard you mean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martyyn 2 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 Leopard you mean Ohhhh meeoooow Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 OK Observations Stock Vista Intel ® PRO/Wireless 2915ABG WLAN drivers SUCK - don't work properly. Is a revised version on Intels Website. Stock Chipset 915G/M drivers suck. Stock Nvidia drivers SUCK. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nz320i 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 wow it looks naiice may have to try get it some how and check it out.. as im doing a full upgrade on my desktop, im suprised it runs nice on 1gb mem, i was told microsoft recommend 2gb which seems overkill i think, you can run xp on 128!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ED1RTY 2 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 lol'd at me. it was a long morning :S Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ipwnyou 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 Been running ultimate since December when the final release came out on the MSDN Subscriber website - Very smooth, no issues at all. running it on my laptop which has a Vista sticker on it already. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deftones 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 will upgrade my work laptop tomorrow with Business version. Might install on another partition first before i do. Just to be sure it will place nice with my apps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 3 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 My friend bought a laptop from Harvery Norman yesterday after looking at their brochure, against my judgement, ended up being not quite what the brochure actually said in a worse sense. Worse still, said it came with Vista but actually came with XP, and worse still, HDD was split into 3 partitions all running FAT32...arghh - spent last night reformatting and installing new shizzle. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bravo 34 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 I'm still using Windows 98 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deftones 0 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 I'm still using Windows 98 At least you aren't using Windows Milenium Edition. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jazzbass 1 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 I guess I'm just not the sort of person who feels the need to get every new thing which comes out, as soon as it comes out. XP does all I need for the present. Truth be told, DOS 3.11 did all I need back then... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew 30 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 I guess I'm just not the sort of person who feels the need to get every new thing which comes out, as soon as it comes out. XP does all I need for the present. Truth be told, DOS 3.11 did all I need back then... I am - then decide i liked the old thing better so buy that back - then want another new one and process repeats. FYI - All popular PC video editing packages are working ok. AVID HD (& sd versions) Prem Pro 2 After Effects 7 3dmax/Maya both OK also. Soundwise protools is working OK also. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 3 Report post Posted February 1, 2007 You would expect that after 6 years of development it would be compatible with software running on XP and be faster and more stable. I am still going to wait till the MSDN version with the service pack becomes avaialble before I switch. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*sic 1 Report post Posted February 2, 2007 i guess i should go buy a copy, i mean xp i never purchased and got a many few years of few OS out of it : ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Carl 3 Report post Posted February 14, 2008 Dredging up and old thread but SP1 is coming out in March...this thread is over a year old but who's swapped over? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tire 10 Report post Posted February 14, 2008 Does vista still kill like 20 fps in games? I remember when it first came out no one wanted it because of the fps loss and the bad drivers for soundcards etc. I'm still with xp and cant see myself changing anytime soon - all that visual sh*t just slows everything down. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
martyyn 2 Report post Posted February 14, 2008 Pretty much everyone I know who did go to Vista has wished they didnt ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
