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Is Vista a Trap?

Posted by Zonk on from the please-keep-ackbar-quotes-to-a-minimum dept.

logube writes "BBC has up an article about the trap of installing Vista in your existing desktop. Written by Tim Weber, a self-confessed 'sucker for technology,' this article is a good introduction to the pain and extra money required to get going with the newest version of Windows. See how you can spend an extra 130 british pounds, and still have no working webcam! Says Weber, 'It took me one day to get online. The detail is tedious and highly technical: reinstalling drivers and router firmware didn't work, but after many trial and error tweaks to Vista's TCP/IP settings, I had internet access. Once online, Creative's website told me that my sound card was a write-off. No Vista support would be forthcoming.'"

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  1. A Trap for Idiots by Dan_Bercell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I knew my four-year-old PC might have trouble coping with Vista, not least because of its wheezing graphics card.
    When I bought it, my Dell Dimension 8200 was fairly state-of-the-art (a few stats for the experts: Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz, 384MB of RAM, a 64MB graphics card, and a Creative SB Live audio card).
    Since then I had added memory (to 768MB), a second hard disk, extra USB ports and a Wifi card. I am not even going to bother reading anything else in the article. The first part of the article tells me everything that I need to know. 768MB of RAM / P4 2GHz... WTF did he expect?
  2. Re:Does Vista have anything we need? by sbrown123 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >Not really, at least not without rewriting a bunch of the XP kernel to handle all the video hardware virtualization that Vista supports.

    I smell serious bullshit and techno babble with words like "hardware virtualization". Can I virtualize new hardware?! Oh, and kernel? Do you really think graphics have anything to do with the OS kernel?!!