Windows Vista...... sucks.

[JDawg1536]

Lots of bugs, and no support. The media center is cool and so are a lot of other new features, but Id wait a while to buy it.

[zimmy]

It's great if you're not an end user. Most admins turn alot of that end user shit off which is usually the buggy stuff. Get rid of shadowing and things like that and you will increase your performance. Too late (early) to rattle it all off. It's not too bad though.

[JDawg1536]

It's great if you're not an end user. Most admins turn alot of that end user shit off which is usually the buggy stuff. Get rid of shadowing and things like that and you will increase your performance. Too late (early) to rattle it all off. It's not too bad though.

Yeah that admin crap is a pain in the ass, that was the first thing to go. No SLI support either. Ive got a graphics card sitting here wasting space. And if I go to certain websites, explorer shuts down. Oh well lets hope they fix all this crap soon.

[G-1000]

Buy a Mac

[Ufa]

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[Carlos_E]

I've always been a PC person. However, I always see news people and
movie people using Mac's. I am interested in editing home movies. What
mac programs would you recommend. I wish I could just use one for a
day and experience the difference. It's time to upgrade.

I use Macs so any questions you have PM me.

It depends how advance you are at movie editing. Macs ship with iMovie and iDVD (a part of the iLife software suite.) Both are consumer level programs for doing basic video editing and creating DVDs. If you are more advance you want to get Final Cut Studio and DVD Studio Pro. They're professional level HD film and DVD editing software.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/

[ecivon]

Yeah that admin crap is a pain in the ass, that was the first thing to go. No SLI support either. Ive got a graphics card sitting here wasting space. And if I go to certain websites, explorer shuts down. Oh well lets hope they fix all this crap soon.

I haven't seen Vista yet and will wait until it gets debugged before I
take a chance, if I ever do - 2000 works well enough for me as a platform. I do know that IE7 has got a lot of compatability issues and I refuse to use it. It may be part of the problem with Vista.

[Panzerfaust]

Do you have the final version of Vista? It is not available to the public until 2007.

We got our final copy last week (Buisness Edition). I tested the upgrade option on a PIII 512MB Dell and it was slow to install and the only problem so far is getting the drivers loaded. I will continue working on it but have not had time today. We have it installed on a new laptop and it runs great. We will slowly deploy it amongst all users overtime.

It definately likes RAM but this day and age you should at least have 1GB anyway.

[JDawg1536]

Do you have the final version of Vista? It is not available to the public until 2007.

We got our final copy last week (Buisness Edition). I tested the upgrade option on a PIII 512MB Dell and it was slow to install and the only problem so far is getting the drivers loaded. I will continue working on it but have not had time today. We have it installed on a new laptop and it runs great. We will slowly deploy it amongst all users overtime.

It definately likes RAM but this day and age you should at least have 1GB anyway.

Yeah I have the "final" release. Vista Ultimate. I installed in less than 10 minutes. It was supposed to come out like last monday, but that got pushed back a few days too.

[Panzerfaust]

I successfully upgraded a PIII today, all drivers installed, runs fine but has a rating of 1.0

[cfiler]

My younger brother was running the Vista Beta awhile ago. He hated it, and switched back to XP. It would not play any of his movies, or games for some reason. Probably the lack of support for certain video cards.

[xlxBigSexyxlx]

Windows 95 all the way baby!

I think Ill stick with XP for a little longer.

[JDawg1536]

I successfully upgraded a PIII today, all drivers installed, runs fine but has a rating of 1.0

I got a rating of 5.6, and it runs buggy as hell......

[Panzerfaust]

My boss has a badass Dell D820 Laptop (2GB RAM, 100GB HDD, DVD Burner, 256MB Video Card) and his rating is only 2.1 wtf?

[Air Walker]

I have used Vista and it is okay.

[G-1000]

[JDawg1536]

My boss has a badass Dell D820 Laptop (2GB RAM, 100GB HDD, DVD Burner, 256MB Video Card) and his rating is only 2.1 wtf?

The rateing goes by which hardware scores the lowest. You could score a 6.0 in video card, memory, processor, etc....... but if you have a 1000 RPM 10 gig hard drvie that scores .5, your score is gonna be .5