i too was thinking about the same thing. ms is making windows changes, to make it look like a linux and have more mac features. i like that, it's about time.
I think we should all just install Windows 7 on decent machines. If you want to install it on an outdated Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM you're asking for slowness. XP glides along now because its an OS that's been around for nearly 8 years. I'm sure when Vista / Windows 7 get to that age, they'll be smooth as silk as well. I've had virtually no problems with Vista so far (apart from the dreaded disk thrashing) because i've made sure I install it on a halfway decent box. Windows 7 is even smoother. My box is a PowerEdge 1800 with a RAID-0 (2 x 15krpm SCSI drives), dual Xeons and 3/4GB RAM depending on whether I use a GB in another box. I have modded one of the PCIe ports to accomodate a 16x GeForce 8600 series graphics card with 1GB of onboard memory. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit. It's not a terribly modern box (its getting on for 3-4 years old, but it has a good spec). If you wanted to build a similar box it'd cost less than £800 with bits bought off ebay. I remember when XP first came out and people were trying to get it going on 64mb RAM and whinging. Its the same nonesense all over again. I say calm down, stop slagging off The Microsoft and wait til Windows 7 is out. Peace.
My laptop (AMD Turion 2GHz and 2GB RAM) runs Windows 7 just like XP runs on it, nice and fast Vista however, doesn't run nicely on either my desktop or laptop! I don't think it's to do with age... Windows ME (mistake edition) is about 9 years old now, and that still doesn't run well on anything (stability-wise). If people adopt Windows 7, then Vista will probably [hopefully] stop being used, and Microsoft will have no need to try and speed it up with Service packs and whatnot.
i can't believe i'm doing this if you separate WinMe accross about 7 partitions (e.g. boot partition - the only primary partition,Windows partition - containig windows dir & most sub dirs, program files dir partition, swapfile partition, settings partition, data partition & disks partition, but most people couldn't be bothered to make Me rock solid stable on an AMD k6-2 500 & 192MB i did this before even tried Linux, i was actually inspired by how little i knew about Linux to help me create what i call MS Lindows & and she's still happy and running today (albeit slow, but, come on it has being running about 8 years with no maintanance, but, the BIOS battery has being replaced) for the record, Vista SP2 is Windows 7 debuging HWF is a b1tch
Maybe I've just misunderstood what you've posted? You put a quote from me, then "I can't believe I'm doing this", followed by "If you seperate ME across about 7 partitions", and that was about it ?? P)
No, Vista is a very early alpha build of Windows 7. It's more like a placeholder between XP and 7, so MS can receive more money to pay the fines of the EU
in my opinion EVERY version of Windows is a beta release, or as you say "a very early alpha build" typical when Vista SP2 comes, so will 7 BTW: personaly don't believe MS
Well yes, of course Vista and 7 will run smooth as silk, with all the powerful hardware that will come out 8 years from now :doh:
I've been running Vista 64 since Sept, and I have yet to come across any issues. The only major annoyance is the constant popups which I need to disable one of these days. Is it really necessary when renaming a simple file to first confirm this operation and then ask for permission? I'm not launching a nuclear strike here, I'm just renaming a file.
