Posted on 02/29/2008 6:33:47 AM PST by raybbr
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Is Vista worth the tax it would cost when the price is cut in half?
I won’t be buying it.
It’s even not worth the blank DVD it’s burned onto.
They need to cut the size of VISTA in half!!!!
They need to scrap it and start over. I wiped Vista off and put XP back on.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I upgraded Vista to XP a few weeks ago. A laptop I loathed is now a great working machine.
They should issue a ‘Vista to XP’ upgrade disk.
Wake me up when they offer at least $100 to take it off their hands.
Just about anything can run Vista Home Basic.
It takes a considerably more powerful computer to run the more advanced versions.
Computer manufacturers and vendors, which are who actually labeled the computers as Vista compatible, had access to vista so that they could test compatibility on their systems before claiming that they were "Vista compatible.
So why are consumers suing Microsoft rather than the computer vendors? The bought the "Vista Compatible" computers from those vendors, not from Microsoft.
If it runs Vista Home Basic, then it is Vista Compatible. If you want to run the top end, latest software and hardware, you need a more powerful computer. If you don't know enough to figure that out, then you should buy a computer from a reputable vendor that will tell you what you need to do what you want, and stand behind their product and accept a return if they don't deliver what they promise.
In my opinion Vista still has a long way to go before I would bother wasting my money on it. It has some interesting features, but XP suits my needs well enough for any purpose that Vista might suit them.
OEMs and customers themselves have some responsibility to be less dense than a rock. Minimum system requirements have never meant that if you have that system it will run that software well, and with all the features enabled.
Greedy trial lawyers have gotten way out of control under our screwed up court system.
I bought two laptops during the last year and demanded XP or no sale. I got XP Pro.
“Is Vista worth it at half the price?”
Um, yes.
Oh I know, you have to dish out all the canned lines about how much it “sucks” and how you “upgraded” to XP, and I’m sure it makes you look really hip, but having actually used Vista and XP and OSX and Ubuntu, I haven’t seen any of this horrible(ness) that the same people keep repeating.
And most of the time their problems are with drivers and software, which is the fault of those companies that make those products.
DING, DING, DING, DING!
The Free Republic understatement of the day!
You should see what they've done to the General Aviation and Biomedical industries.....
Yeah, that's right. I always wanted a computer that I could only use MS software on. I didn't want to use my hp printer anyway. Sheesh.
I don't have Vista, btw. But, it would seem to me that with all the advances in technology and the virtual unlimited amount of money MS has that THEY could have provided a more stable, compatible system.
It's amazing to me how terrible this OS is compared to XP.
If I hadn't installed it on a new terrabyte drive, I'd yank it today and put my 400 gig XP disk back in. As it is, I'm going to play with it a little more.
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