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What Is A Dell Vista-Capable Computer Capable Of? Uhm, Nothing

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fornax

Diamond Member
Dell proudly announces that a Dell "Genuine Windows Vista Capable" workstation is great for...

Booting the Operating System, without running applications or games
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So if you ever wanted to buy a computer for the sole purpose of booting Windows Vista without doing anything else, now is the time to buy a Dell computer.

Click me...

 
Vista with 1 gig ram=:thumbsdown:
Vista with 2 gig ram=So so
Vista with 3 gig ram=good.

Dell has basic of what? maybe 1 gig ram. Woot.
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
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Out of curiosity, what can your Vista workstation do that any Mac can't?
 
Originally posted by: rikadik
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
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Out of curiosity, what can your Vista workstation do that any Mac can't?
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Upgrade hardware?
 
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Vista with 1 gig ram=:thumbsdown:
Vista with 2 gig ram=So so
Vista with 3 gig ram=good.

Dell has basic of what? maybe 1 gig ram. Woot.
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any OS that 4requires 2+ gigs of ram is a waste.
 
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
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wow, and they call mac users fanboys. Where does all this hate come from? No one even mentioned Macs and yet you felt threatened enough to mention it. Sheesh, talk about an inferiority complex.
 
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: rikadik
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: rikadik
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
Click to expand...

Out of curiosity, what can your Vista workstation do that any Mac can't?
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Upgrade hardware?
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Mac Pro?
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Costs how much?
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that wasn't the question now was it.
 
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
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wow, and they call mac users fanboys. Where does all this hate come from? No one even mentioned Macs and yet you felt threatened enough to mention it. Sheesh, talk about an inferiority complex.
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and yet you pop into this thread and immediately go on the defensive for Mac with two consecutive posts. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: rikadik
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: rikadik
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
Click to expand...

Out of curiosity, what can your Vista workstation do that any Mac can't?
Click to expand...

Upgrade hardware?
Click to expand...

Mac Pro?
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Costs how much?
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that wasn't the question now was it.
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It's my question. Appears you have no good answer.

🙂
 
Originally posted by: tasmanian
Vista with 1 gig ram=:thumbsdown:
Vista with 2 gig ram=So so
Vista with 3 gig ram=good.

Dell has basic of what? maybe 1 gig ram. Woot.
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No, the part that the OP quoted was for a Dell Vista machine with 512MB RAM.

Originally posted by: fornax
the sole purpose of booting Windows Vista without doing anything else
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Why else would someone buy Vista, unless it came with a new system? The biggest deal with it is how it looks, so why not just have happy people staring at it after it is booted? Who needs games and productivity when you have... Aero?

Will Vista make me a better gamer?

Will Vista make me churn out my school homework faster?

Will Vista increase my post count here at Anandtech? Whoops, it just did... by one.

OMG I'm gonna get Vista and be productive and pwn in games and stuff!!!111!!

I really am considering Vista for a spare machine since I can get it free (legit) from MSDN-AA. However, my main system and my gaming rig runs just fine on XP, so I feel no urgency in wasting time installing Vista on those.

It will be a different matter once there are things I need/want that will no longer work on XP. And no, the announced upcoming DX10 games aren't anything I need/want.
 
Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: Looney
Huh? My Vista workstation does more than boot the OS. Certainly more than any Mac out there.
Click to expand...

wow, and they call mac users fanboys. Where does all this hate come from? No one even mentioned Macs and yet you felt threatened enough to mention it. Sheesh, talk about an inferiority complex.
Click to expand...

and yet you pop into this thread and immediately go on the defensive for Mac with two consecutive posts. :roll:
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Yep, you're right, my bad. I should have posted something constructive too. I only got defensive since Looney's post really needed a comeback.

I think Vista, like any OS, should exist for the convenience of the applications that allow end users to be productive. An OS (whether OS X or Vista) shouldn't require 512MB just to boot up and 1GB to do something productive. OSX 10.4 is almost that, and apparently Vista is too (one time I wish MS hadn't copied Apple).
<steps off soapbox>
 
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