Comments on: No Vista for Venom

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:12:42 +0000

Apparently there’s also a huge difference between “Vista capable” and “Vista ready”, with the former costing money for additional upgrades to run anything beyond Vista Home (the bottom of the barrel). Both, however, apparently require a huge amount of time removing Vista the instant a person figures out it’s not all that.

By: the oracle

the oracle — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:09:07 +0000

I bought a “Vista Ready” Dell XPS system last December. By the time they shipped me my copy of Vista in February, I’d already decided to stick with XP, based on advice from authorities like Leo Laporte.
The machine will be a year old in a couple of weeks and my copy of Vista is still in its shrinkwrap.
I do photography and photo editing and Nikon has yet to write a Vista driver for my film/slide scanner. Also, Vista needs 2GB of RAM to run properly. I have that much RAM installed, but can’t reconcile myself to giving it over to such a memory hog.
It’s no surprise that some tech writers have called for Microsoft to abandon Vista as a failure. You know something’s wrong when Dell still offers machines with XP and even Linux.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:04:34 +0000

Timmer, I’m thinking you jinxed my Satellite. Just this very minute, I moved from my office to the family room and plugged it back in. The cord went POOF! and emitted a huge — and I do mean huge — spark and flash.

A MacBook is still a bit beyond my budget, so I’ve got another cord ordered for overnight delivery.

By: Timmer

Timmer — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:39:50 +0000

I switched to a MacBook Pro from an older Toshiba Satellite last fall when the hard drive started getting wiggy and the fans started to die. We have a PC in our “office” that will go into Boyo’s room and then as soon as we can afford an iMac or Mac Pro, we’ll never go back.

My MacBook has never crashed, never froze, boots up so fast it’s kind of scary, and other than games, I haven’t found any task that I could do on my PC that I can’t do on my Mac, and my Mac does it smoother and with less headaches.

Learning curve? Once you realize that what you want to do really IS that easy, the learning curve sort of disappears.

By: Mad William Flint

Mad William Flint — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:15:37 +0000

re: XP’s death

Their original plan was to retire it a few months after Vista was out of the gate. But the response to Vista has been so abysmal that they’ve recommitted support for xp for a few more years.

Dell had a similar problem when they tried to cut over to Vista only. very very bad customer response so they increased back-pressure on ms for continued support of xp.

If you’ve got an uberbox then vista’s not so bad. The incredible proliferation of “Do you REALLY mean it?” dialogs is just effing foolish. OF COURSE I MEANT IT YOU STOOGE, I CLICKED ON IT!

I’ll probably retreat and pick up another box to put xp pro on. But hopefully I can just wait out the game withdrawl. It’s really rough though.

Of course I wrote this on Linux.

By: wg

wg — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:40:56 +0000

*raises hand cautiously* Don’t hurt me….

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:34:20 +0000

That it is, Expat. I’ve yet to hear of a home user who actually likes it.

Anyone?

By: GZ Expat

GZ Expat — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:29:11 +0000

Kate…have you been in my house??? Have you been spying on me while I struggle and swear at Microsoft and Vista?

I’ve been struggling with the Tai-Tai’s laptop ever since we got it. It takes forever to boot up…battery power lasts about 1 hr…it locks up for no apparent reason…Vista ‘compliant’ software works, but creates other ‘security’ issues that block up Vista…it’s driving me crazy.

Just the other night, I began the process of backing up files and folders in anticipation of re-formatting the disc and switching to XP. Or, possibly wiping out everything I have done and going back to the factory version of Vista and starting over.

Vista is a pig.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:57 +0000

To KAT (and possibly others):

You do NOT need to buy a computer that comes prebuilt and preloaded with software. For almost the same amount of money, you can go to a local PC retailer and have them put together a computer for you with your choice of hardware (including case). Then have them install whatever you want. Easy. Less bloatware. No Vista.

By: Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:07:27 +0000

The Outlook is Kind of Grim…

VK writes about her travails with Vista. Apparently corporate IT has the same misgivings. A survey by King Research indicates…