It feels faster than a 6 month install of XP and about the same as a fresh install of XP. It starts up faster than XP, awakes from sleep faster than XP, and shuts down faster than XP. Everything else feels pretty much the same. It's pretty much the best OS from MS yet; enough so that I am using win 7 as my main OS even though it is beta.
*Triple-booting XP tablet PC, vista business, and win 7 on a laptop 2.1ghz core2duo, 2gb ram, 32 bit everything, 7200rpm hd.
You obviously don't own a Nvidia or creative card, otherwise you would have experienced the horror of shitty drivers when vista was first released. Nvidida drivers caused ~25% of vista crashes. Driver support has gotten MUCH better.
"esp. with the comments flowing in about how it's no better than Vista."
Could you elaborate? Win 7 is so much better than vista that I'm using beta 1 as my main box. In fact, I'm considering switching my XP box to win 7 as well, as its been running for 4 years and feels kludgy, and no amount of registry cleaning and spyware detecting is making it faster again.
I can't possibly see how anyone who has used vista for more than an hour could say that win 7 isn't any better. It feels like XP without the Fischer Price skin. The only thing XP may be faster in is network transfer speed, synthetic benchmarks that don't mean anything in the real world, and perhaps openGL apps.
Adobe reader is the worst. Why the hell does a pdf reader need to be updated every week? And before someone suggests foxit reader, it isn't that great for tablets. And don't get me started with itunes. How apple can convert windows users with that obnoxious POS I'll never know. The only reason I have it is for the fitness podcasts. Thankfully I use nod32 for my antivirus so at least that mostly just leaves me alone.
I'm typing this on a 6 year old fujitsu laptop, never replaced the main battery, and while it only gets 4 hours instead of 6 it is still quite functional. Their power cords are crap however.
Except ATI and "generic" sound card manufacturers (REALTEC, etc) managed to develop drivers that were mostly stable and functional. My motherboard 5.1 soundcard worked flawlessly when vista was first released, while my creative card barely even worked.
The biggest problem when Vista was released was shitty Nvidia and Creative drivers. Nvidia drivers were responsible for 50% of vista crashes when it first came out, hence people thought vista was unstable and crap. MS doesn't want a repeat of this for win7.
When I installed kubuntu on my laptop a year ago it was noticeably slower than both XP and vista (I have installed tablet XP, vista business, and another partition for whatever). The laptop is a 2.2ghz core 2 duo, 2gb ram, 7200rpm HD. Have their been major speed improvements within the past year?
Oddly enough I thought Mario Galaxy was awesome but Twilight Princess was trash, although I probably would have liked TP if I played it on the gamecube instead.
Tablets typically don't play very well under linux, with subpar handwriting recognition and at least with older fujitsus they lack drivers for screen rotation and tablet button functionality. I got a recommendation for openSUSE but it was still rather difficult to get half the functionality.
However, your tablet is quite dated, so I would recommend a custom tablet XP installation using nlite or similar tools. Bumping up the ram to 1gb should make it tolerable.
Mold is incredibly resilient, and if even a little of it remains you will continue to have problems down the road. While I'm sure you could save the electronics, unless you are 99% thorough in removing the mold it will just come back. It might be better just to toss everything.
Some of you are not going to be happy unless they release the source code, allow you to do anything you want with it, release it on every platform (even ones in which it would be financially infeasible to do so), or a bunch of other fantasy pipe dreams. Lets get realistic.
No, exactly what you wrote is "If you give it to one patient who wakes up you've got nothing but an interesting story.", which I disagreed with when I wrote "No, you then have a premise for trying it out on more than a few people. ".
No, you then have a premise for trying it out on more than a few people. What you correlation people don't understand is that these case studies lay the groundwork for larger experiments.
The black bezel around the screen is far superior for watching movies or video fullscreen. Black is much less distracting than lighter colors, and with TV sets you will often see TVs with black cases being priced $100-200 more than the exact same TV with a white or gray case.
How many times have you nearly destroyed your computer, only to be saved by the case? Not once in 20 years for me. I have gone through about 10 keyboards though.
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It feels faster than a 6 month install of XP and about the same as a fresh install of XP. It starts up faster than XP, awakes from sleep faster than XP, and shuts down faster than XP. Everything else feels pretty much the same. It's pretty much the best OS from MS yet; enough so that I am using win 7 as my main OS even though it is beta.
*Triple-booting XP tablet PC, vista business, and win 7 on a laptop 2.1ghz core2duo, 2gb ram, 32 bit everything, 7200rpm hd.
You obviously don't own a Nvidia or creative card, otherwise you would have experienced the horror of shitty drivers when vista was first released. Nvidida drivers caused ~25% of vista crashes. Driver support has gotten MUCH better.
The only negative thing about win 7 in that entire article was one comment from a random pirate that it "looks the same".
"esp. with the comments flowing in about how it's no better than Vista."
Could you elaborate? Win 7 is so much better than vista that I'm using beta 1 as my main box. In fact, I'm considering switching my XP box to win 7 as well, as its been running for 4 years and feels kludgy, and no amount of registry cleaning and spyware detecting is making it faster again.
I can't possibly see how anyone who has used vista for more than an hour could say that win 7 isn't any better. It feels like XP without the Fischer Price skin. The only thing XP may be faster in is network transfer speed, synthetic benchmarks that don't mean anything in the real world, and perhaps openGL apps.
Adobe reader is the worst. Why the hell does a pdf reader need to be updated every week? And before someone suggests foxit reader, it isn't that great for tablets. And don't get me started with itunes. How apple can convert windows users with that obnoxious POS I'll never know. The only reason I have it is for the fitness podcasts. Thankfully I use nod32 for my antivirus so at least that mostly just leaves me alone.
Better than Lifetime. I can't stand it when my wife watches that vapid shit.
I'm typing this on a 6 year old fujitsu laptop, never replaced the main battery, and while it only gets 4 hours instead of 6 it is still quite functional. Their power cords are crap however.
It was actually 29%, so I won't require your $20.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/28/29-of-windows-vista-crashes-caused-by-nvidia-drivers/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080325-vista-capable-lawsuit-paints-picture-of-buggy-nvidia-drivers.html
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/28/nvidia_vista_drivers/
Except ATI and "generic" sound card manufacturers (REALTEC, etc) managed to develop drivers that were mostly stable and functional. My motherboard 5.1 soundcard worked flawlessly when vista was first released, while my creative card barely even worked.
The biggest problem when Vista was released was shitty Nvidia and Creative drivers. Nvidia drivers were responsible for 50% of vista crashes when it first came out, hence people thought vista was unstable and crap. MS doesn't want a repeat of this for win7.
When I installed kubuntu on my laptop a year ago it was noticeably slower than both XP and vista (I have installed tablet XP, vista business, and another partition for whatever). The laptop is a 2.2ghz core 2 duo, 2gb ram, 7200rpm HD. Have their been major speed improvements within the past year?
Oddly enough I thought Mario Galaxy was awesome but Twilight Princess was trash, although I probably would have liked TP if I played it on the gamecube instead.
Tablets typically don't play very well under linux, with subpar handwriting recognition and at least with older fujitsus they lack drivers for screen rotation and tablet button functionality. I got a recommendation for openSUSE but it was still rather difficult to get half the functionality.
However, your tablet is quite dated, so I would recommend a custom tablet XP installation using nlite or similar tools. Bumping up the ram to 1gb should make it tolerable.
Useless and a waste of development. Just put the computer to sleep, and it boots in 2 seconds. Why bother wasting time on this?
Mold is incredibly resilient, and if even a little of it remains you will continue to have problems down the road. While I'm sure you could save the electronics, unless you are 99% thorough in removing the mold it will just come back. It might be better just to toss everything.
I believe lenovo offers thinkpads with linux preinstalled on them now.
We'll they're pretty small, and shuts up the "will you develop for x" requests/complaints.
Some of you are not going to be happy unless they release the source code, allow you to do anything you want with it, release it on every platform (even ones in which it would be financially infeasible to do so), or a bunch of other fantasy pipe dreams. Lets get realistic.
No, exactly what you wrote is "If you give it to one patient who wakes up you've got nothing but an interesting story.", which I disagreed with when I wrote "No, you then have a premise for trying it out on more than a few people. ".
You would die. That's like a shot every 30 seconds.
No, you then have a premise for trying it out on more than a few people. What you correlation people don't understand is that these case studies lay the groundwork for larger experiments.
The black bezel around the screen is far superior for watching movies or video fullscreen. Black is much less distracting than lighter colors, and with TV sets you will often see TVs with black cases being priced $100-200 more than the exact same TV with a white or gray case.
How many times have you nearly destroyed your computer, only to be saved by the case? Not once in 20 years for me. I have gone through about 10 keyboards though.
Like the article says, this is for people who probably already have their case open anyways.
Thanks, I'll try that.