Topic: Opinions on Vista
vabchgrl88's photo
Mon 05/07/07 11:26 AM
For those who have it....is it good? or are there alot of bugs as with
XP when it was first released? Right now im on XP but i have a Vista
Transformation Pack thinger that makes it look liek Vista but well it
isnt obviously laugh id have to buy a new video card to run Aero on
Vista anyway...but anyway...is it good, bad? okay?

no photo
Mon 05/07/07 01:31 PM
I only used it for a few minutes, while shopping for a new computer at
Office Depot, and on those brand new, lower end machines it was
-sloowww-. Which verifies what I've read elsewhere, saying that
Microsoft has misrepresented the minimum requirements needed for a truly
usable Vista installation. XP works just fine for you, no? Unless
you've got a real powerhouse of a computer, I wouldn't waste my time
with Vista.

vabchgrl88's photo
Mon 05/07/07 01:45 PM
laugh yeah im on a 2002 PC....Pentium 4, 2.0GHz, 768RAM and 2 40GB
hard drives lol id probably kill my PC with Vista lol

netuserlla's photo
Tue 05/08/07 03:35 AM
I tried vista on my test computer. i tried it on a 2.4 intel with 512 of
ram and a 128mb geforce video card. It runs and works and looks
great.but compared to winxp on the same system, vista crawls.

Kevin3824's photo
Tue 05/08/07 02:35 PM
The system you described has less ram then is reccomended for the OS.

Recommended system requirements
1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 GB of system memory

40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space

Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:

WDDM Driver

128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)

Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware

32 bits per pixel

DVD-ROM

Audio Output

Internet access (fees may apply)

Additional requirements to use certain features
TV tuner card required for TV functionality (compatible remote control
optional)

Windows Tablet and Touch Technology requires a Tablet PC or a touch
screen

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption requires a USB Flash Drive and a
system with a TPM 1.2 chip



I would actually suggest going even higher then their reccomended
system as well personally but that is because I am a pretty hard core pc
person and would need a bigger system then they ask for just to play
some of the games I play. When it comes to certain things in computing I
just will not settle for minimum or reccomended minimums.

I learned to be like that because of Quake 4 not installing without 512
MB of free ram not shared with anything else including the OS.