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Vista Delayed. Now What?

Wreckage

Wreckage

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I was hoping to build a Vista system this year, but that looks to be out of the question. So my OS decision is split between the following:

Windows XP Home
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP 64 bit
Windows MCE 2005

All my systems are currently XP pro. However I don't see much advantage over XP home. 64 bit seems interesting, but I have read there is a severe lack of drivers. MCE may offer a lot of features, but how good are they?

I'm not building till end of August so that gives me time to think about it. Maybe there will be a XP MCE 2006 Pro 64 bit by then.
 
No rush to changeover. Will stick with XP Pro for the meantime. When Vista has worked out its bugs (usually a year), I will surely make the change.
 
Ultimate OS Poll?!? Excuse me, but shouldn't there be many more options? That's a lot of history to cover with so few.
 
Originally posted by: bersl2
Ultimate OS Poll?!? Excuse me, but shouldn't there be many more options? That's a lot of history to cover with so few.
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Well it's more like ultimate current windows operating system poll 😉

Not enough room in the title.

Although for my needs OSX or *nix will not work at least not on my main box.
 
Originally posted by: TonyRic
What are you doing that non-Windows is insufficient?
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Gaming, programinng, video editing, etc. A lot of windows only programs.

I have a secondary box that I run Linux on. (Fedora Core 5).
 
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Ban for the original poster! 🙂

False advertisment on your ultimate operating system poll
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Sadly if you do a lot of different computer based activities, Windows XP (or a variation of it) is the best and only OS.
 
Well...since they are now talking a 2Q of 2007 release date for Vista, I will probably wait until at least SP1 which probably means sometime in 2010 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ITJunkie
Well...since they are now talking a 2Q of 2007 release date for Vista, I will probably wait until at least SP1 which probably means sometime in 2010 🙂
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That's just Gartner's opinion. The official word is that RTM is still going to happen in October w/ general availability in Janurary.

Bloody financial analysts...
 
Originally posted by: ITJunkie
Well...since they are now talking a 2Q of 2007 release date for Vista, I will probably wait until at least SP1 which probably means sometime in 2010 🙂
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Yes, because of a bunch of pontificating pointy hairs at Gartner know more about the development process and timeline of Windows than the Windows Division at Microsoft.

:disgust:
 
Don't get the itch, just stick with XP Pro.
Not knocking *nix, just that the OP seems to want to stick to a MS platform.
 
Sadly if you do a lot of different computer based activities, Windows XP (or a variation of it) is the best and only OS.
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Actually it's the opposite. If you do a handful of very specific activities you're stuck with XP, not the other way around. Gaming and video editing are probably the main two, both are possible on other OSes but the tools are very different. On Linux most of them are either too difficult to use/professional (i.e. Cinelerra) or too simple, but the tools on OS X like iDVD and iMovie are usually 'just right' for home users. As for games, I can't comment much there since most new games suck IMO, they're just shinier rehashings of the same thing over and over. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

Virtually everything else is just as good or better on Linux once you get comfortable with it. Infact I would say that a Linux box is many times easier to program on than Windows because you can easily see into any part of the system that you want.
 
WinNT 4 SP6a

Seriously, WinXP works great today and it will be a great choice for several years to come.

If you're brave, maybe try Linux. If you're not quite that brave, maybe get a Mac. Or how about getting an ACORN and running RiscOS? 🙂
 
Originally posted by: halfadder
Seriously, WinXP works great today and it will be a great choice for several years to come.
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Yes, but there are 4 versions to choose from. 😕

I want to try MCE but don't know what benefits it offers.
 
Originally posted by: Wreckage
Originally posted by: halfadder
Seriously, WinXP works great today and it will be a great choice for several years to come.
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Yes, but there are 4 versions to choose from. 😕

I want to try MCE but don't know what benefits it offers.
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MCE provides a 8-10 foot interface. Meaning it was mostly designed to be view/used on a large TV while sitting on the couch. You can use it to view photos, videos, listen to music, and watch TV. Its greatest functionality is PVR features. With a TV Tuner you can watch/pause/rewind/record TV.

Other then those multimedia features, XP MCE is a cross between XP Pro and Home, leaning a little closer to the XP Pro side.
 
Virtually everything else is just as good or better on Linux once you get comfortable with it
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Can you run Photoshop on Linux without resorting to hacks to make the application think it's running on Windows?

 
Can you run Photoshop on Linux without resorting to hacks to make the application think it's running on Windows?
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A) I said "virtually", meaning that it wasn't an absolute statement.
B) The GIMP is good enough for me.
C) OS X was shot down as an alternative OS too but you can run Photoshop on OS X just fine.
 
Originally posted by: spikespiegal
Virtually everything else is just as good or better on Linux once you get comfortable with it
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Can you run Photoshop on Linux without resorting to hacks to make the application think it's running on Windows?
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Beleive it or not there were a few major movie studios that paid codeweavers to do specificly that for them... (because they used Linux for everything else. I don't know if that's still true) It'll only run earlier versions though. Not CS.

Nowadays you have Cinepaint, Gimp, or Krita should provide most anything anybody would want a image editor for. (then there are a few closed source items coming along.. such as Pixel that are cross platform.)
 
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