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Sledgstone
February 4th, 2007, 01:03 AM
Now that vista has come out for sale, has anyone upgraded yet? and if not, do you plan on upgrading any time soon?
Godgrave
February 4th, 2007, 02:19 AM
My laptop's Vista upgradable, I think I just have to call them up and they'll do it for me or run me through the steps. I'm just afraid my other programs (downloading, etc.) that're not legit shouldn't work once I upgrade, ya know. It would be nice if I could have a split boot or load where I can choose which version I wanna go on ...
Strider Hiryu
February 4th, 2007, 09:36 AM
Eh, I won't be upgrading for a long while (considering all the bad things I've been hearing about Vista from random computer salesmen and the IT department on campus). I'll upgrade when it becomes necessary to.
Dubird
February 4th, 2007, 11:54 AM
I'm not going anywhere near Vista until I have to. I finally got used to XP. o.O Besides, I'd have to do some major upgrading to run it as it's such a resource hog. Makes XP look like 3.1, according to a friend.
Godgrave
February 4th, 2007, 01:05 PM
Check out this link, it's got plenty of screen shots for Vista

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-4395-1.html

I've just gotten myself XP too ... sometime in 2006 if I remember correct.
gokuDX7
February 4th, 2007, 08:52 PM
Vista is hell. I tried the beta and dont plan on using the real OS anytime soon. I'll stick with Linux and pre windows 2000\2003 anyday.
DeathscytheX
February 5th, 2007, 12:31 AM
I think ill wait until most of the bugs are worked out of it.
Ladywriter
February 10th, 2007, 10:21 AM
It aint goin on my laptop yo
Banana Attack
April 27th, 2007, 02:03 PM
Vista is hell. I tried the beta and dont plan on using the real OS anytime soon. I'll stick with Linux and pre windows 2000\2003 anyday.

That was beta, it's more solid than my XP SP2 installation now. I run it on my laptop, I think it's great... I haven't had any compatibility issues, although for my laptop Aero is just a gimmick I turn on in order to show my friends the cool 3D whoosh effects. Other than that I turn it off and just leave it on the "Vista Basic" theme, basically Aero without the transparency or 3d effects. It's not a resource hog in the least bit without Aero, and that's on a laptop with a crappy integrated video card. On a newer computer with a dedicated graphics card I doubt Aero would even make a difference.