Doctor Four
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
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Re: !!POLL!! Have you taken the plunge?
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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cork1958
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join:2000-02-26
Fruitport, MI | reply to wifi4milez
Hell no XP is the way to go |
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Couch Potato
What?
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Evansville, IN
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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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wifi4milez
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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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kaila
join:2000-10-11
Lincolnshire, IL
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I'm staying on the sidelines with XP for now.
IMHO Microsoft is shooting themselves in the foot with Vista Basic. My college age daughter has it on a laptop and it's worse than XP and offers none of the true Vista features. |
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phantasm11b
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join:2007-11-02
Winter Park, FL | reply to wifi4milez
I can't vote for "Yes it rocks", however I use it on my desktop. It's ok when you get used to it. |
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gambothell
join:2006-02-26
Bothell, WA
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I purchased a new Acer desktop with Vista Home Premium. I have one desktop with Windows XP and Ubuntu duel booting and I have two notebooks with Ubuntu.
I am not impressed at all with Vista. It is very slow reading and writing to memory sticks and DVDs. Microsoft went out of their way to make it hard to get to ALL of your data. After reconfiguring menus and dialogs to the Classic look, it is a little better, but compared to Ubuntu 7.10, it sucks. If it were not for some of my hardware that has no Linux drivers, such as a 35mm slide scanner, I would dump Vista totally and install Ubuntu. |
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Gilitar
join:2000-11-20
Mobile, AL | reply to wifi4milez
Very bad poll! I run Vista, but think it sucks for the most part. I didn't vote. |
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fcisler
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join:2004-06-14
Riverhead, NY
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Work is 98% XP, A couple leftover w2k machines and a single NT4 (legacy software).
NO VISTA, and no site license yet - so i'm not even playing with it.
Home - XP, XP 64bit, and Vista. Don't like vista. Slows me down. See no advantages.
IMHO, they ruined media center on vista too. Absolutely hate it. Still has the SAME EXACT BUGS that XP MCE had - i've submitted the problems many times (certain video's "conflict" with it, upon trying to generate a thumbnail MCE crashes) and they still refuse to fix it.
Next time I feel like formatting it, back to MCE. I still see -0- advantage with Vista. When we get a site license I may try it here, as supposedly the group policy is a bit better...but i'll be stripping out aero and any eye candy - simply not needed. |
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dliw
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Vista on one box and XP on the other two. Am satisfied with all three. It's all about the mindset and willingness to proceed in Life. |
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chazman1
join:2001-11-19
Mount Orab, OH | reply to wifi4milez
Use Vistas everyday, no problems of course I also use a Mac everyday and have been saying no problems for years. |
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someone2
@pacbell.net | reply to wifi4milez
I'm still using good ol' Windows 2000.
That's where I'll stay for the seeable future |
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Rexter
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join:2002-11-17
cloud 9 | reply to chazman1
Where's the selection for XP user, but will up grade when it's time?
I'm always a little late, I just finally started running XP within the last year. |
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xrobertcmx
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Sterling, VA
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I tried Vista on my Athlon X2 6000+ but wasn't impressed, and when some 6 month old games (at the time) I still play failed to run I rolled back to XP Pro.
At the moment I have the following:
MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5, Vista, and Kubuntu
Server (Athlon 3000+) running SuSE 10.3
Desktop Suse 10.3/XP Pro
Dell 5150 XP Pro
Mac Cube OS X 10.4
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swhx7
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XP is the end of my Microsoft patronage. My most-used PC runs Windows 2000; I keep an XP partition on another PC because of some audio/video applications and NTFS partitions. In the long run, though, I'm transitioning to Linux.
My experience with Vista is partly with a friend's PC. She got a fancy new Dell XPS notebook with Vista and had problems from the start - slowness, lockups, blue screens. We got it converted to XP and it's problem-free now.
My reasons for converting are the greater capabilities of Linux; increasing distrust of closed-source software; and Vista being even more intrusive and hostile to full control by the owner of the PC. The "activation" dependency also makes it unacceptable. And at the same time, the new features are either DRM which is evil in principle, or junk like unnecessary interface changes and visual decorations that I would only turn off. |
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William
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join:2007-09-22
Washougal, WA | reply to wifi4milez
XP Pro (x2), its good enough. |
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wahoooo
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Or one about whether the apple computer is a pc. Hahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. this poll is useless. |
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Karl Bode
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I had waited, and I'm glad. Just built a new PC and have been running x64 Vista for several days and am actually pretty impressed.
Only two major problems have annoyed me (at least on this system, which is pretty quick -- E8400, Gigabyte X38-DS4, 8800GT):
The RAID/AHCI driver install upon initial installation is borked if you have the drivers on flash drive and don't disable legacy USB drive as bootable device in the BiOS. The installer suddenly thinks you're trying to use the Flash drive as your installation directory.
And the slow network transfer speeds between XP & Vista are a real problem, though that's been fixed by SP1 I believe.
Otherwise I like it. Crysis runs on very high without a single hitch, no problems with any of my favorite programs (Snagit, firefox, Thunderbird, Daemon tools, iTunes).
Glad I waited (I think syncing iPods only just started working last week with the most recent Apple iTunes update, etc.), and I wouldn't run it on old machines with odd, off the beaten path parts -- but on a new, fast build it has been pretty decent.
Reading outlets like Maximum PC you would have thought that x64 Vista was technological seppuku. |
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KickMe
join:2001-10-03
Lancaster, OH | reply to wifi4milez
I just wondered what all the XP fans are planning when Microsoft quits selling XP in a couple of months and then drops support for it altogether in two or three years? |
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William
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join:2007-09-22
Washougal, WA
| said by KickMe :I just wondered what all the XP fans are planning when Microsoft quits selling XP in a couple of months and then drops support for it altogether in two or three years? I'll move to Linux. 
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