*tap tap* - Is this thing on??

[Yammer77]

Geez I'm in the minority.
I use resource hog programs like Autocad, Rendering pograms etc.  I have no problems whatsoever with Vista.
One program I am using is running in xp compatibility mode, but thats it.  If you are buying new, I say get vista.
If you need xp because of specific software not working, then go with xp.
There is nothing wrong with Vista.  I had an IT guy telling me that in order for me to see my company's network I needed xp because vista doesn't support alternate DNS/ IP addresses, etc.
After I got off the phone with him I entered in the alternate addresses and its working fine.
I think the issue is blown out of proportion.  Yes MS didn't give developers enough time to develop patches, etc.  Yes there are hardware issue with drivers.  What I am finding though is that major companies are not investing in updating support for older software.  They would much rather have you buy the newer version.
I run about 6,000.00 worth of software on my machine.  The easiest program to install? GIMP, which is a photoshop clone and free.
Go figure.

[RacingHistorian]

I run about 6,000.00 worth of software on my machine.  The easiest program to install? GIMP, which is a photoshop clone and free.
Go figure.

I run a $100 million dollar financial institution on our machines and they won't / can't be VISTA.       At home, I have 2 Windows XP boxes, 1 Ubuntu Linux box, and 1 Windows Media Center laptop (my wifes).   The only thing keeping me from MAC is the cost outlay.  You can dual boot VISTA / Mac and have everything you need, or run VM or bootcamp.   So many options now on MAC that make it so compelling.  I've had several friends switch over the last several months, and a few of them are gamers - which MACs just plain aren't able to do well for a variety of reasons.  But boot up Windows on your MAC and your all set. 

Only one of our major vendors will qualify that their software will work with VISTA.   It's bad enough that everything is browser based these days and IE7 is a cluster @#$#@ of a browser when it comes to pre-set security settings.    If the world would just switch to Firefox the net would be such a better place!!

I have my XP Pro box running as a lean machine and I rarely have any problems.   There is NOTHING VISTA offers over XP that is compelling enough to switch.   Pretty Interface?  A security feature that 95% of all users disable?  DX10?  Yeah.. right.     Oh, and their networking speeds are still lacking behind XP - even with Service Pack 1 from everything I've read.   

With XP, 2Gigs of RAM is plenty.  With VISTA, just about every article I read states "4GB is the new 2GB", even though VISTA only shows you using 3.x of it in system resources. 

I don't know... I just don't see any compelling reason to switch at this time.   

[Yammer77]

I only switched because it was included in the price of what I bought.  No deductions if I went with xp.
Vista and 4g is typical of any 32 bit system.  I have a gig of memory sitting in my machine unused.  At work I have 4g on vista business, at home 3g on vista business, on laptop 2g with vista home ultimate or whatever its called.
The 3g at home as same amount of resources as the 4g machine.  I didn't know that its 4g total that a 32 bit machine can see.  So you factor in video card, etc.  my 3 gig machine sees all 3 gig while the 4 gig machine only sees 3.15.

Am I making sense?