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July 17th, 09:10 PM
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Vista- Worth Buying?
yes or no
Good or bad?
(and i dont mean buying from club live)
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July 17th, 09:30 PM
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Definitely not.
It's not even worth getting it for free unless you're going to sell it.
I got a new laptop and it had Vista. It wouldn't work with half of the programs I used, the GUI, while nice looking, sucked up way too much memory, and it was ****ing glitchy with all the aero ****.
I ended up installing XP from an old disc I had from my old computer. Sure XP is not as pretty and is missing a couple features that never get used anyways, but overall XP just works better.
Most people just want Vista for the GUI and the fancy aero crap, but if you're gonna fork over 300-400 for Vista just for the GUI, you might as well buy a mac.
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July 17th, 09:31 PM
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This Is Sparta!!!
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No
Bad
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July 17th, 09:31 PM
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It's aight... if you're computer can run it and you got the extra money with nothing else to buy then sure...
I have it on my Laptop..or it came with its not easier or harder to use to me so its jus w.e
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July 17th, 09:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flash LCD
Definitely not.
It's not even worth getting it for free unless you're going to sell it.
I got a new laptop and it had Vista. It wouldn't work with half of the programs I used, the GUI, while nice looking, sucked up way too much memory, and it was ****ing glitchy with all the aero ****.
I ended up installing XP from an old disc I had from my old computer. Sure XP is not as pretty and is missing a couple features that never get used anyways, but overall XP just works better.
Most people just want Vista for the GUI and the fancy aero crap, but if you're gonna fork over 300-400 for Vista just for the GUI, you might as well buy a mac.
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I've heard a lot of stuff wont work on it? Like what wont? I have put a lot of my games on it WoW, all my steam games, and some others and everything works fine... mine isn't glitchy and my memory rarely goes to the red.
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July 17th, 09:37 PM
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i miss my windows 98 computer. i remember when we upgraded it from 95.
lol. my windows 3.1 computer is still running fine though.
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July 17th, 09:40 PM
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Yeah I have a 3.11 too.
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July 17th, 09:44 PM
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i still have a 95 in the basement... still runs doom like a beast 
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July 17th, 09:46 PM
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I've heard a lot of stuff wont work on it? Like what wont?
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Let's see. The newest version of Google Earth continuously ****ed up when I first started it up, or if I got lucky and it loaded all the way, it would **** up when I searched for something. Illustrator took about 20 minutes to copy to paste anything, Spy Doctor would crash in the middle of a search. Lots of other **** too, just small stuff that really starts to piss ya off after a while.
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July 17th, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Flash LCD
Let's see. The newest version of Google Earth continuously ****ed up when I first started it up, or if I got lucky and it loaded all the way, it would **** up when I searched for something. Illustrator took about 20 minutes to copy to paste anything, Spy Doctor would crash in the middle of a search. Lots of other **** too, just small stuff that really starts to piss ya off after a while.
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out of those things I've heard of Google Earth so maybe that's why. |
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July 17th, 09:52 PM
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I'm downloading Earth now to see how she runs on the vista I have it already on XP.
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July 17th, 09:57 PM
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out of those things I've heard of Google Earth so maybe that's why.
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Adobe Illustrator is a program used for graphic design, in laymans terms, it's comparable to photoshop.
Spy Doctor is just my spyware scanning program of choice.
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July 17th, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Flash LCD
Adobe Illustrator is a program used for graphic design, in laymans terms, it's comparable to photoshop.
Spy Doctor is just my spyware scanning program of choice.
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ah. I got photoshop cs2 and Norton on both and they both run fine.
-Wes. |
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July 17th, 10:17 PM
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ah. I got photoshop cs2 and Norton on both and they both run fine.
-Wes.
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Well they are different programs, but who the hell knows, **** doesn't happen to everyone the same way.
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July 17th, 10:24 PM
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Well they are different programs, but who the hell knows, **** doesn't happen to everyone the same way.
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Yeh you're right about earth first time I ran it it failed and shut down haha. |
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July 17th, 10:39 PM
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Cs3 Ftw
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July 17th, 10:49 PM
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Cs3 Ftw
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Never could get it to work. |
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July 17th, 11:08 PM
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Never could get it to work.
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Yet more proof that I am better than you.
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July 17th, 11:17 PM
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if you have an XP disc ill trade you my Vista one for it 
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