is vista stable yet?

[genocide roach]

looking for a new laptop finally. is vista still having problems?
~gR~

 

[Vimana]

Nah bro. Go for it.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Stick with XP pro.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

looking for a new laptop finally. is vista still having problems?
~gR~

Fuck that garbage, just wait until Windows 7 comes out. They're releasing it in like a week.

 

[wandering_taco]

Ive been using vista since I got my new laptop not too long ago, I've had zero problems so far. I actually like it better than XP now, its much more sleek.

 

[unknown]

this is something I've been wondering lately. My desktop at home is beginning to take a shit (after 4 or 5 years of faithful service), so I've been keeping an eye on the computer market...but I'm thinking of waiting for Windows 7 to come out, but I don't want to because the first wave stuff always has some flaws. So the dilemma is choosing between Vista which has been serviced or Windows 7. I think I'll wait for the official reviews of Windows 7

and then there's ubuntu...

 

[mutantllama]

Linux bro.


Even though I don't have it on my home computer, I've used it before and it was nice.

 

[False Joe]

Even though I don't have it on my home computer, I've used it before and it was nice.

No, it's not.
Fag.

But yeah, make sure you actually buy a half decent laptop. A bunch of the issues people have is because they're trying to run vista on a system that can't handle it.
2GB RAM minimum I'd say.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

this is something I've been wondering lately. My desktop at home is beginning to take a shit (after 4 or 5 years of faithful service), so I've been keeping an eye on the computer market...but I'm thinking of waiting for Windows 7 to come out, but I don't want to because the first wave stuff always has some flaws. So the dilemma is choosing between Vista which has been serviced or Windows 7. I think I'll wait for the official reviews of Windows 7

From what I've seen of 7 (someone where I work got a copy of the Beta), it looks almost exactly like Vista, just with minor improvements / new features here and there. I would think that it won't be nearly as buggy as Vista upon first release, but I guess the reviews will tell.

 

[Hubster]

Stick with XP pro.

Post of the motherfuckingthread.

Avoid Vista at all costs, in fact, youre better off going with XP or just waiting until years end for W7.

W7 Beta runs fantastic on even 2gig RAM, Vista will go into labour on 2gigs!

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I personally think it's hilarious that companies would make a comp with 1 GB system onboard RAM that have the newest version of Vista. It's like they want you to hate Vista.

 

[False Joe]

W7 Beta runs fantastic on even 2gig RAM, Vista will go into labour on 2gigs!

Yep, that's how my 2GB LAPTOP works fine with it.

 

[Zephyrus]

(insert Apple bigotry here)

 

[The Ozzman]

I've heard Vista has been fine since the latest service pack came out. My laptop is over 5 years old and I need to get a new comp in the next year or two so I should start looking.

 

[cookiecutter]

Vista will go into labour on 2gigs!

This is actually not true.

I have had Vista on my 2Gig RAM laptop for twp years and I haven't had a single problem with it.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Regardless of how un-broken Microsoft finally got Vista, the fact is that it was a flop and Windows 7 is right on the horizon to replace it, so I don't know why anyone would grab a computer running Vista at this of all times.

 

[entanglement]

it [vista] was a flop and Windows 7 is right on the horizon to replace it

Doesn't mean 7 would be an improvement. They kept playing with new technologies each year.. COM, then COM+, DCOM.... and now .NET. Looking for a 'replacement' each time and not being able to replace any one of the last ones completely.. just putting piles and piles on top under the excuse of 'backward compatibility' and getting nowhere in the end. 'Ease of use' is more important to them than anything. Blah.

Death to M$

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Well yeah, it's going to be bloated, but that seems like more of a hard drive space issue than a performance issue, and space is dirt-cheap.

I don't think it's going to be worse than Vista though. The new features might be buggy, but other than that it pretty much looks like Vista 2, with some of the original Vista complaints addressed. They seem to have created a better version of the whole User Account Control thing which makes it easier to manage all those security popups Vista threw at people, and it most likely isn't as bogged down in DRM shit.

 

[FenriR]

Vista has been stable for fucking ages. Get a laptop with vista on it and buy another 2gb of RAM. It's £25 and takes 5 minutes to install.

All you whiny faggots who bitch about vista, try using it on a system designed for vista and quit moaning. XP had the same problems when it was released.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

^ You forgot one thing: people like to be able to run other programs on their computers too without it choking. The goal isn't just to have a computer that's good enough to run Vista alone.

With 2 GB of RAM on an XP machine, you could like scan for viruses, check your e-mail, surf the Internet, and play a high-end computer game all at once.