Cisco huh? Not like they would have an agenda for saying things like that. Besides Cisco complaining about somebody else having security issues?

It's not called a BETA for nothing.

If you have seen 1 windows product you have seen them all. They all crash the same. They are all POS. Go with mac or linux

If you need a super computer to run windows what the heck you need when you try and run photoshop or other resource savy programs

in the end i'd rather have a better running os than something looking fancy...

i don't think i will upgrade my computer once vista hits, will most likely put that money in a savings account to buy my ultimate mac machine

Been using it for a while now i love it

wow..that is nice.. i c u have 2047 megs of ram.. does it bog down.. it looks proccessor intense!

Not really, I loaded up a bunch of stuff last night, including Photoshop and some other programs and I never noticed it slow down at all.
And as I said, you can turn off all of those shadows, transparencies and everything else to increase the performance if you find that your computer can't quite handle it very well.

And for those of you going on and on about linux, do you seriously think that I don't know about linux if I'm trying Vista in beta?? I mean, come on. The whole point is to see how it works, how it performs, what's different.... JUST LIKE when I try with linux.

It's like people who will never try escargot simply because it's snails... they don't know what it tastes like, but they know it's icky... so they simply won't try it because of what it MIGHT be. Personally, I try everything because I won't really know otherwise... whether it be an OS or a snail :glugglug

:thumbsup

can I laugh at your name stuart?

Vista is nothing special.They just integrate better skin and that's it.I will wait when first service pack will be issued.After all with every new version of windows there is 50000 new security bugs.

Why not? Everyone else does.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I like your style, though I'd have to draw the line at a few things. Such as owning a cat, petting a dolphin (well, ok, I?d pet a female dolphin), playing DDR, trying out a guy?s cock, and last but certainly not least, voting for Hillary Clinton if she ever decided to run for president.

that 3d thingie looks fantastic...

Looks pretty cool to me.

looks pretty cool! Thanks for taking the time

i'm glad vista's default search engine would be www.live.com
:)

Took me a bit, but I found an interesting article...

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2005/09...hardware_reqs/

I hear it is a bear to run. Looks nice however.

i've had vista for about a month and it works perfectly fine for me.... shout out to mininova & utorrent

Hey Stuart, you running rc1 or rc2?

RC1, when I made this thread, RC2 wasn't even available yet. And I just never got around to upgrading it after that.

So other then looking different, is there any other reason to upgrade?

I'd like to see 64bit reasons... Like 4+GB of ram truly available... etc..

What does that windows experience index mean in your system stats area? and what is that rated out of?

It's the ranking of your computer specs. How fast your CPU is, your video card, your ram.... all that stuff. And if windows finds that it's high enough, it will enable or disable features/performance accordingly.

linux > vista

looks pretty tight. nice backgrounds

thanks for clearing up my decicion not to get vista afterall

Glad I could help.

looks good...thanks for the review stuart :thumbsup

Didn't squishy get banned for posting a screen shot of another board? just a heads up Stuart

Looks really nice, can you run Nero? I heard it's not possible yet

Where did you found this old thread?

can't wait to install vista next week! ^_^\/

I noticed you got a score of 4.7 on some vista experience shit. Is there a stand-alone test of it available? I don't wanna download vista just to see if it works. :P

Yup, there is.. it's called the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor.

You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...r/default.mspx

It'll do the exact same tests on your system and tell you how well Vista will run on your machine.

looks nice ill probably use it when i get my windows machine next month...

Mac isn't exactly original. Infact a large majority of MAC GUI has been stolen from other OS's / Apps.

Stop been a douche bag.

He-he :)
Bumped :)