A few Vista Beta 1 impressions

[archcommus]

BEFCMU10, you anger me sometimes.

 

[thehstrybean]

Is anyone testing the 64-bit version? If so, is there a difference with it and XP X64, which has no difference from regular XP...

 

[Battleangel3222]

IMHO This sh!t looks like an OS-X ripoff, they are trying to make everything seem "big and texturous" while still being "plain". Looks tacky.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Are you guys beta testors?

By that, do you mean downloaded it off NewsGroups?

 

[gsaldivar]

God I hate the whole shiny/transparent OSX look. :thumbsdown:

It's good to see they still offer Classic look as an option. :beer:

 

[Czar]

the gui looks like one of those crappy ones you can get for stylexp, and not the good ones, the crappy ones

and why does microsoft .. and apple think that icons that take up half the screen are good?

 

[91TTZ]

Looks neat.

Microsoft's design team in Cupertino, CA did a great job with this.

 

[xaeniac]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean
Is anyone testing the 64-bit version?

Thought there was one version of Longhorn and it included the capability to run at 64 bit if you have a 64 bit processor.

 

[Czar]

http://www.meversusthem.com/vista/index...image=6fad4432d3b22537084a055f61e13efb

wtf?!?!?
look at those icons, yeah ofcorse because you cant see anything else

 

[Czar]

http://www.meversusthem.com/vista/index...image=d6b75cd3dbc82550a49b460114ada760
...omg.. people should be required to be blind to use that

 

[Acanthus]

So basically they updated the driver suite and changed the interface. Adding no real features whatsoever.

Windows 2000
Windows 2000 2 (XP) NEW INTERFACE AND DRIVERS!
Windows 2000 3 (2003) NEW DRIVERS AND SECURITY BUG FIXES!
Windows 2000 4 (Vista) NEW INTERFACE AND DRIVERS!

Im sure theyll gimp 2000 somehow to force us to upgrade, oh wait theyve already thought of that. WGF 1.0, when games need that itll be time to shell out $200 to MS again.

Anyone try disabling the pagefile yet? i bet MS still cant code their OS to run resident in memory.

 

[Mucho]

Originally posted by: TriStar
Why would anybody care?

I did....so piss off

 

[Czar]

And why doesnt microsoft sell windows licenses for the same money they sell it to companies, a xp pro lisence costs less than most computer games for corps.

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: TriStar
Why would anybody care?

Because it's ATOT.

->n7
Tried playing any games?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I still think the name Vista blows.

 

I got the ISO here from MSDN but at 2.5GB and no DVD burner it ain't installing anywhere but a VPC

 

[iamwiz82]

Also, you can load drivers via CD & USB flash memory drive now instead of just teh stupid F6 + floppy

Why did this take so long? I was just bitching about it a few weeks ago.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
n7,

Once you get it running, please post your impression here!

OK:


"WHIRRRR WHIIRRRR WHIIIRRRRRRR......DOOOOdooodooooDO!!!"


That was my impression of the hard drive running and then the opening tones when it starts up

 

[blurredvision]

Is a reg key needed for this beta? Would like to check it out on my own....

 

[NakaNaka]

n7 - Yeah keep posting impressions. I don't even use Windows anymore, but I'm stilll curious what's going to be worth it about Vista.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: archcommus
XP doesn't seem to even need replacing to me yet.

but ati, nvidia and intel are complaining to microsoft that XP requirements are too low for the current and next generation of chips and the people arent buying the new chips

Perhaps because the cost/benefit ratio for those chips is not great?
Mass consumers aren't like people who spend the cost of an entire budget PC on a video card. 1-2GHz checks email, surfs the web, and plays the Sims 2 and Deer Hunter just fine. They're not going to buy a new computer just because it's faster. They'll buy a new one when the old one is broken or has too much spyware.

I wrote an article sometime back for a local newspaper early last year on how processors have far exceeded common software requirements, so there was going to be a glut of high speed PC's on the market this year. My parents, inlaws, and friends all have PC's that are 500mhz-1ghz that they're still using. You do not need a high speed PC to run Internet Explorer and Outlook, and that's what a majority of people run. They're just portals to the Internet.

 

[Acanthus]

someone disable the pagefile and tell me if it runs like trash plz

Its the only feature im really interested in since they ditched WinFS.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: archcommus
XP doesn't seem to even need replacing to me yet.

but ati, nvidia and intel are complaining to microsoft that XP requirements are too low for the current and next generation of chips and the people arent buying the new chips

Perhaps because the cost/benefit ratio for those chips is not great?
Mass consumers aren't like people who spend the cost of an entire budget PC on a video card. 1-2GHz checks email, surfs the web, and plays the Sims 2 and Deer Hunter just fine. They're not going to buy a new computer just because it's faster. They'll buy a new one when the old one is broken or has too much spyware.

To me, it sounded like he was being sarcastic, saying how Microsoft makes ultra-bloated operating systems at the request of chipmakers so that people have to buy new hardware.

 

Originally posted by: Fritzo
I wrote an article sometime back for a local newspaper early last year on how processors have far exceeded common software requirements, so there was going to be a glut of high speed PC's on the market this year. My parents, inlaws, and friends all have PC's that are 500mhz-1ghz that they're still using. You do not need a high speed PC to run Internet Explorer and Outlook, and that's what a majority of people run. They're just portals to the Internet.

Games are the only thing pushing the hardware these days. I my 2Ghz machine is able to run multiple XP instances as fast as they ran on 2001 hardware.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: archcommus
XP doesn't seem to even need replacing to me yet.

but ati, nvidia and intel are complaining to microsoft that XP requirements are too low for the current and next generation of chips and the people arent buying the new chips

Perhaps because the cost/benefit ratio for those chips is not great?
Mass consumers aren't like people who spend the cost of an entire budget PC on a video card. 1-2GHz checks email, surfs the web, and plays the Sims 2 and Deer Hunter just fine. They're not going to buy a new computer just because it's faster. They'll buy a new one when the old one is broken or has too much spyware.

To me, it sounded like he was being sarcastic, saying how Microsoft makes ultra-bloated operating systems at the request of chipmakers so that people have to buy new hardware.

Thats the way i read it too, and it reflects reality