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Tom's Overly Detailed Vista Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-a-few-hours-to-kill dept.

prostoalex writes "The weekend is here, and several software sites have published extensive reviews of Windows Vista for your reading enjoyment. Tom's Hardware is running a 500 hour Windows Vista review that spreads out 40 pages." From the article: "This new operating system is huge: it has more than 37,800 files, taking up a total of 10 GB. Part of this size stems from the fact that the current Beta is for the so-called "Ultimate Edition", which contains all available components, including complete versions of both Tablet PC and Media Center capabilities. In addition, many applications have been compiled in debug mode, so some space savings should occur for final versions once that debug switch is turned off. For our Windows Vista preview, we used Build 5381."

10 of 283 comments (clear)

  1. Waste of Space by ludomancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe the extensive review is a tribute to the OS in question: Bulky and unnecessary.

    All I have to say is http://www.nliteos.com/ (nlite Windows software) to the rescue.

  2. Re:Too many pages by LoonyMike · · Score: 1, Funny

    You mean put all 53 paragraphs of the review in a single web page???

  3. Re:I TOLD them it was a dupe! by nmb3000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    what's really sad is [...]

    It's Slashdot: News for Nerds, not Slashdot: News for Paranoid Conspiracy Theorists (well, most of the time anyway).

    On a related note, I've got video and pictures to *prove* that UFOs are responsible for 9/11, but all my stories get rejected! Slashdot is run by censoring fascists!

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  4. 40 pages? by DSP_Geek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every goddamn article in Tom's is stretched out over way too many pages, no exceptions. Until they change that policy, they're dead to me. I have better things to do with my time than banging on the Next link like an ADHD 6 year old in front of a whack-a-mole game.

  5. Re:10 gigs thats not huge anymore by TheDreadSlashdotterD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nobody plays Solitaire and Minesweeper

    You obviously don't have relatives.

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  6. Re:I TOLD them it was a dupe! by cgenman · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not a dupe. The original poster just finished reading the article.

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  7. Re:Too many pages by kfg · · Score: 4, Funny

    500 hour review (whatever that is supposed to mean)

    How long you can expect it to take to click through it.

    KFG

  8. Re:C: Drive Partition... by Gyga · · Score: 2, Funny
    Easy
    format C:
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  9. What took 500 hours? by frdmfghtr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was it the screen captures? Maybe all that cutting and pasting took 500 hours.

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  10. Re:The 3rd Prostoalex Submission Today by myowntrueself · · Score: 2, Funny

    and it's not RMS without a shower

    Hah!

    That would be an oxymoron!

    *ducks*

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