Vista - Who's downloaded it?

**saul** · 10th October 2006, 19:36

Originally Posted by Jim2

Calls himself "Soul Bruddah" and is completely unaware of Fat Boy Slim. Sad.

lol

**James Deuce** · 10th October 2006, 19:43

Right about now.

**Cajun** · 10th October 2006, 19:58

hmmmmmmm crashed once. machine is not the fastest thing amd 2800+ 512 ddr400, 128 ati vid card.

And thing is slow as a bloody dog, loading anything.

**scracha** · 10th October 2006, 20:22

Originally Posted by Cajun

hmmmmmmm crashed once. machine is not the fastest thing amd 2800+ 512 ddr400, 128 ati vid card.

And thing is slow as a bloody dog, loading anything.

RC1 DVD's finally arrived on Thursday. A lot more stable than beta versions. Hibernate doesn't give me a screen full of $hite anymore. Bit of a fight getting the wifi drivers working though. Sempron 2200, 512 ddr400 256 ATI. Noticed BIG difference after bunging in another 512MB [1]. Still seems to have kernel bug where it won't boot from external USB drive. Not brave enough to stick it on laptop's main drive.

Is it just me that thinks Microsoft could have tried a bit harder? Apple and the Linux hippies must be rubbing their hands with glee and it's hardly going to scare enterprise level Unix users. Still seems to be Windows NT with a few bells and whistles. Another excuse for another round of hardware and 3rd party software upgrades as I suspect lots of things will be incompatible.

[1] Reminded me of whining at IT department until they upgraded PC running XP from 256MB to 512MB. I remember Microsoft trying to tell everyone back in 2001 that XP would run fine with 128MB. Most of my colleagues stuck with 2000 or NT until the hardware caught up.

**Sniper** · 10th October 2006, 21:04

I have mixed emotions about it. Too graphic orientated

**MOTOXXX** · 10th October 2006, 21:09

i have installed it on vmware. the rc2 prtm

looks ok. turn all the fancy shit off.

still got a way to go.

ps windows update as of tonite will download a security patch to upgrade to ie to ie 7

**SPORK** · 11th October 2006, 14:25

@ Dawnrazor & Enigma51...

If I could install it on a PC I would... Is it feasible because of the new Intel Macs? I really really really want a MacBook Pro

**Wasp** · 11th October 2006, 14:55

probably SB, search you tube for "multiboot mac"

the vid i saw had the mac os, ubuntu and xp pro on it

**GR81** · 11th October 2006, 15:01

im running 64bit RC1 currently, seems to be fine.
the biggest thing if you want to run it is 1Gb+ of RAM, waste of time with anything less.

i currently have both 32bit and 64bit RC1 if anyone wants a copy.

**SPORK** · 11th October 2006, 15:19

Originally Posted by Wasp

probably SB, search you tube for "multiboot mac"

the vid i saw had the mac os, ubuntu and xp pro on it

Yes but that's off a Mac, I'd say, using Boot Camp.

**Wasp** · 11th October 2006, 15:32

I might try vista on my new conroe based comp when i get it but at the current rate vista will be out by the time i get it.... (was going to start ordering bits this week but seem I crashed the bike its on hold....)