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Vincent.
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 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: Free vista, use it? |
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So i got Vista home edition, i got it for free.
microsoft sended me one.
but shall i use it, or stay stuck with xp?
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jason744
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Why would MS send you a free copy 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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Sell it on Ebay.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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I've never heard of them just giving away the home edition... usually business.
I got a copy a while ago from some survey thing they did...
then 2 more from student promotions... and visual studio... and windows server...
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Vincent.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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So, is it better then xp?
do people just say NO beacuase you need to buy it, and it is almost the same as xp or what?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| What do you do on your computer?Hack?Play games?PC Specs?
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Vincent.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| i play games, online rpg's but not very new games. i use drawing programs too lol, my computer isnt that great, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT - 256 MB
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Stay with XP, a lot of people are saying Vista is buggy and useless.
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| strife wrote: | | i play games, online rpg's but not very new games. i use drawing programs too lol, my computer isnt that great, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT - 256 MB |
My GFX Is the same thing,Its an XFX right? Its fine with Vista,Alogn with DX10. If you have 2 gigs of ram+ I recomend downgrading to vista,Its pretty sweet.
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I say stay with XP I dun like Vista it's just a slow show off pc and unless you have a pretty good amount of RAM DX10 is going to slow you down a bit....
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| .Task Manager. wrote: | | strife wrote: | | i play games, online rpg's but not very new games. i use drawing programs too lol, my computer isnt that great, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT - 256 MB |
My GFX Is the same thing,Its an XFX right? Its fine with Vista,Alogn with DX10. If you have 2 gigs of ram+ I recomend downgrading to vista,Its pretty sweet. |
Downgrading? It's not the matter of RAM only, you will need a good strong processor too 
| dlc_kidd wrote: | | I say stay with XP I dun like Vista it's just a slow show off pc and unless you have a pretty good amount of RAM DX10 is going to slow you down a bit.... |
Vista is a much stronger OS compared to XP, but yes, it's not suitable for slow computers and DX10 does slow you down by a bit.
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well XP is the dominte OS right now,But Vista is more up to date and things will be released more and more for vista.
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| i agree vista will be more encouraged and i believe in the future every one will WANT vista... but for now u should keep XP ..
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Chaos Lord
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Yeap...
XP = Awhile now
Vista = Quick future
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| Chaos Lord wrote: | | Vista is a much stronger OS compared to XP, but yes, it's not suitable for slow computers and DX10 does slow you down by a bit. |
Resource using? Yes. Stronger? No. Yes, Vista looks good, but that's about it. DX10 is far slower than DX9 (though that may just be because of the games, not DX10 itself). Vista uses at least twice the RAM of XP, leaving much more for other programs; Vista is more taxing on the video card; Vista is more taxing on the CPU; I could go on and on. I'll admit, Vista, at release, was much better than XP, at release, but, with SP2, XP is still a lot better.
Maybe I'll think Vista is the better operating system after a few service packs are released, but, at the time being, XP is, still, the better operating system.
To the thread starter: don't use Vista, yet. Wait until a few service packs are released. Vista uses too much resources and isn't as stable as XP, for the time being.
A semi-related article that might be somewhat interesting to read: Link.
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