Windows VISTA

Non-lacrosse specific topics.

Windows VISTA

Postby Brent Burns on Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:30 pm

Just wondering if some of you have that program on your computer right now. Should it be worth buying now or worth waiting until the bugs are ironed out?
Brent

a LSA Fan.
User avatar
Brent Burns
Coca-Cola Collector
Coca-Cola Collector
 
Posts: 2159
Joined: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:41 pm
Location: in the Hewitt


Postby ZagGrad on Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:52 pm

The word from our IT guys is that they want to release a new package every two years. By the time the bugs are out, they'll have something else.

Personally, I don't have 1Gig RAM to support the thing so I probably won't be getting it. AND companies like ours aren't upgrading due to all the changes we'd have to make on our end in order to use it.
Chris Shogan

Gonzaga University Alumnus '03
Gonzaga Preparatory Lacrosse Head Coach
User avatar
ZagGrad
All-America
All-America
 
Posts: 523
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:24 pm
Location: Spokane, WA

Postby mholtz on Wed Jan 31, 2007 3:17 pm

My recommendation would be to wait until you get Vista on a new computer. This is the most resource intensive OS they've released yet, and most computers that aren't brand new will have a hard time running it.
Matt Holtz
Head Coach, University of Detroit-Mercy
CollegeLAX.us developer/admin.
User avatar
mholtz
Site Admin
Site Admin
 
Posts: 717
Joined: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:12 am
Location: East Lansing, MI

Postby yourmom on Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:10 pm

ZagGrad wrote:Personally, I don't have 1Gig RAM to support the thing so I probably won't be getting it.


You really need at least 2gigs. We have been playing with it at work and it is a resource hog. It has some cool things but all in all it seems like a repeat of windows Millenium Edition to me. It just seems rushed.
Chris Glover
Lindenwood University Lacrosse Alumni
User avatar
yourmom
All-Conference
All-Conference
 
Posts: 491
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:42 pm
Location: St. Louis, MO

Postby KnoxVegas on Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:38 pm

Here is a fantastic review of Vista:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
Dagger!
KnoxVegas
All-America
All-America
 
Posts: 1762
Joined: Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:03 am

Postby Beta on Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:50 pm

KnoxVegas wrote:Here is a fantastic review of Vista:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8


HAHAHA! Makes me want an iBook.
Barry Badrinath: Oh man, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever drank.
Landfill: I doubt that very much, playboy
User avatar
Beta
Big Fan of Curves
 
Posts: 1581
Joined: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:00 pm
Location: A-Town Stay Down, GA

Postby horn17 on Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:53 am

OS X is sweet, very few bugs, easy intergration.....oh wait you wanted a Vista review.....
Rob Horn
University of Minnesota Duluth
Assistant Coach (the little Rob)

"You can't outwork mother nature."

Upon viewing Paul Rabil in person, this is the quote of the century. (stolen from a different message board .
User avatar
horn17
Premium
Premium
 
Posts: 598
Joined: Mon May 02, 2005 4:22 pm

Postby Pinball on Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:59 am

I am just waiting for leopard....

Great little article on pcworld.com about Vista (#6 is my favorite)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128669-page,1/article.html
Jon Carlson
SJU Alum 07'

www.mcla.weebly.com
User avatar
Pinball
All-America
All-America
 
Posts: 631
Joined: Mon Jan 24, 2005 2:40 pm
Location: Uptown

Postby mholtz on Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:37 am

Vista has a new feature that allows you to speak commands to it.

i.e. Say "Start ... Programs ... Microsoft Word" and word pops up.

Reports are out now that there are websites with embedded sound files that speak commands out the speakers and start hijacking your computer via the voice system.

fun stuff.
Matt Holtz
Head Coach, University of Detroit-Mercy
CollegeLAX.us developer/admin.
User avatar
mholtz
Site Admin
Site Admin
 
Posts: 717
Joined: Fri Jan 21, 2005 9:12 am
Location: East Lansing, MI

Postby laxfan25 on Sat Feb 03, 2007 7:02 pm

Well, irony of ironies. The eMachines PC we bought a few years ago on the post-Thanksgiving sale at BestBuy ($250) fried the power supply and motherboard on Friday. Just bought a replacement HP, and of course it came with Vista Premium. It has a GB of RAM, a 320 MB Hard drive and Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. We'll see how it goes. Now I've got to get all the data off the other hard drive, which is a big enough pain, but I also have to re-install all the programs, which is a bigger pain.
I was hoping to be able to just drop the old HD in this box, but with the different operating systems, it's not gonna happen. Sigh.
User avatar
laxfan25
Scoop, Cradle, & Rock!
Scoop, Cradle, & Rock!
 
Posts: 1952
Joined: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:06 pm


Return to Water Cooler

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 19 guests


cron