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Alcohol
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join:2003-05-26
Somerset, NJ | Re: !!POLL!! Have you taken the plunge? Where is the option for "Yes" - the Vista rocks? | |
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MrFixitSC
Premium,VIP,ExMod 2001-06
join:2000-12-01
Moncks Corner, SC | where's the option for vista but without the "it rocks"?  | |
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Jahntassa
What, I can have feathers
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join:2006-04-14
Conway, SC | Re: !!POLL!! Have you taken the plunge? I must've missed 'all the controversy' involved with Vista's release.. | |
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runnoft
Premium
join:2003-10-14
Deerfield, IL
 ·Comcast
| Re: !!POLL!! Have you taken the plunge? said by Jahntassa  :I must've missed 'all the controversy' involved with Vista's release.. Apparently so. There are many good reasons to view Vista as WinME II, an unnecessary OS upgrade, particularly if you have money invested in hardware and software you still like that does not run well or at all with Vista. I just built two PCs that are fully capable of running Vista, but I don't want to have to pay to upgrade applications to newer versions that can work with Vista, or pay Microsoft's ridiculous prices for Vista, nor do I install OS's without stable SP1s when there are as many complaints about the OS as there are about Vista. (I realize that reason to not upgrade is about to vanish, but still... "never leap early" is a lesson I learned the hard way.)
The touted improvements in security are the only thing I personally miss sticking with XP. I don't give a rat's patootie about how pretty the OS is. Just give me an OS that can run my apps and hardware without a performance or reliability hit. | |
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wahoooo
@sbcglobal.net | Or one about whether the apple computer is a pc. Hahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. this poll is useless. | |
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Greg_Z
Premium
join:2001-08-08
Springfield, IL | Where is the choice of "What the hell is a Computer." | |
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chRoniX10
Peace sells, but who's buying?
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join:2004-05-22
Tarzana, CA | Running XP on 3 desktops and 1 laptop.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| XP here. I refuse to have an OS that tells ME what i can and cant do with MY computer!
the disabling interfaces and degrading protected content are the deal killers for me!
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mr_slick
join:2003-05-22
Lynnwood, WA | mixture of xp and 2000. i have more 2000 boxes, so i voted for that. | |
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nwrickert
sand groper
Premium,MVM
join:2004-09-04
Geneva, IL
 ·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T Midwest
| I have linux, XP, Vista installed in different partitions.
I mainly use linux, so voted that way.
I boot the two Windows systems twice a week, usually just for a short time to allow virus scanners to update, but I sometimes use them for a short while.
Vista is great. It will do more to break up the Microsoft monopoly, and persuade people to switch to linux or a Mac, than anything the anti-trust division of the justice department has ever done.
It's hard to understand why anybody would actually like Vista. They even broke their games. Play "solitaire" on XP, and you quickly get action. Play it on Vista, and you get lots of eye candy but very little action.
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MagMan
Life is simpler when you tell the truth.
Premium
join:2003-10-01
Westlake, OH | XP Home. | |
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Boricua65
join:2002-01-26
Puerto Rico | WinXP Pro on both the lappy and desktop. If I had a choice, I would've stuck with Win2K. That is the best OS them idiots put out. | |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
·Comcast
| This machine - XP Home.
Will run Vista but driver issues prevent it.
Other machine - No problem running Vista, but since it came with XP MCE 2005, there really is no reason for me to blow $400 for Vista.
If/when I get a new machine, it will have Vista in it.
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Psicop
More human than human
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join:2005-12-21 | Re: !!POLL!! Have you taken the plunge? quote:
If/when I get a new machine, it will have Vista in it.
Duh! I read somewhere in here that you already made a switch to Mac.
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DemonicLlama
join:2007-11-19
Potomac, MD | I use vista home premium as my media center pc at home and it works great. At work its XP still since we have not needed any new pc's for our users. | |
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wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | After we close out this poll, perhaps one of the mods can give us a dump of the actual site user data so we can see how close our figures are to reality. | |
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cableties
Premium
join:2005-01-27
·Verizon FIOS
| I'm running Ultimate on a Mac Pro (Bootcamp) and its dog-slow booting (I've alot of RAM and there are some driver issues).
I cannot run this on my XP Pro Dell as it will cost me more to upgrade than to replace. And I am not ready to. Not yet. Maybe when the 45nm cores are cheaper.
So I voted Hell no, XP... | |
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
Premium
join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
·AT&T U-Verse
| 62 votes for XP (including mine). I have no intention of
upgrading on my current system, nor of buying a new one
with Vista pre-installed. And the next system I build I
will use XP on.
With a few notable exceptions (mainly Dell), all new
desktop and notebook PCs now come with Vista.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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wifi4milez
Big Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY
·Verizon FIOS
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·BroadVoice
| Re: !!POLL!! Have you taken the plunge? said by Doctor Four :62 votes for XP (including mine). I have no intention of upgrading on my current system, nor of buying a new one with Vista pre-installed. And the next system I build I will use XP on. With a few notable exceptions (mainly Dell), all new desktop and notebook PCs now come with Vista. Yes Dell for sure offers XP as an option, and I think Lenovo does as well.
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cork1958
Cork
join:2000-02-26
Fruitport, MI | Hell no XP is the way to go | |
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Couch Potato
What?
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join:2004-08-29
Evansville, IN
·Insight Communicat..
1 edit | this computer, my desktop/main, came with MCE 2005, so that's what I use here. My laptop came with Vista Home Premium, and I haven't had a single issue with it since September (when Intel finally got the video card driver to work). I've had the laptop ~1yr now. I did install Ubuntu (dual boot) on the laptop, I liked some of the features but I couldn't get the sound card to work properly.
So to all you Linux fan-boys...it has driver problem too.  | |
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