Windows Vista

[Osmose]

I'm going to have to side with the others in terms of you hatred for Mac, DarkFlood. You're a little too eager to challenge anyway show shows any fondness of them. I at least try to supply valid arguments, whether I fail or not.

You can upgrade a Mac, but I'm fairly sure that it voids any warentee for repair that Apple gives you, although if you're the upgrading type you aren't one to really need one anyway.

[MrMister]

Everyone has come to this thread with an agenda, instead of just talking.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Originally posted by MrMister
Everyone has come to this thread with an agenda, instead of just talking.

Not really. Ironic that I'm defending Macs on an XP runnin laptop huh? XD

As for Moose, if I can find the warrantee for the old G4 I'll let you know  about that. But I used to have the very first model iMac and had it's hardrive upgraded. Watched the guy do it. Hell if I know how, but as long as you knew what you were doin I'm sure it's easy.

I meant to address this too early on, but just plain forgot. Apple released a new pill mouse, but it actually has two buttons and a small scroll ball. Takes some getting used to, but it's pretty neat. I believe it's standard with new Macs now.

[Razor]

This year in TAFE I get to use macs to get my Certificate IV in multimedia.
Having never used one before 6 days ago, I'm in for a fun year.

[Archem]

I hate that new pill mouse.

[ZeroKirbyX]

Originally posted by Archem2
I hate that new pill mouse.

Maybe so, but I just posted that in retaliation to everyone's claims of no double button mice, seein' as how that one has two buttons.

[Osmose]

That scrollball sucks. I've used it before and it's just plain uncomfortable to use.

[ZeroKirbyX]

My only problem is it's a little too high up for me long fingers. If you wanna use a double mouse that bad, just plug in a pc mouse. I always just use ctrl+click anyways.

[Trevlac]

I work at Geek Squad. I have to deal with Vista's bullsheiza all day long. I take solace in knowing that when I clock out I'm coming home to my WinXP and Knoppix machine.

I will buy a Mac before I'll ever use Windows Vista.

PS: And so you all are aware, very few programs will work with Windows Vista. It has to be a Vista approved program to work. So Vista isn't going over so well with a lot of companies that will have to rewrite all their programs (like Enterbrain) and customers who want to keep all the expensive software they have (Like Adobe Premiere 6).  Buying Vista is paying to get rid of all the programs you use and only use ones that Microsoft's new operating system supports.

[Rowan]

Originally posted by Trevlac
I work at Geek Squad. I have to deal with Vista's bullsheiza all day long. I take solace in knowing that when I clock out I'm coming home to my WinXP and Knoppix machine.

I will buy a Mac before I'll ever use Windows Vista.

PS: And so you all are aware, very few programs will work with Windows Vista. It has to be a Vista approved program to work. So Vista isn't going over so well with a lot of companies that will have to rewrite all their programs (like Enterbrain) and customers who want to keep all the expensive software they have (Like Adobe Premiere 6).  Buying Vista is paying to get rid of all the programs you use and only use ones that Microsoft's new operating system supports.

Which is why Im sticking to XP till I see some more support for vista.

[Osmose]

The only program I have that doesn't work in Vista  (And in two cases, XP Service Pack 2 Compatibility, Starcraft [Colors were all wacky], and my own VB6 program). Fireworks 8 is the only program that doesn't work fully, and all it does is go into Aero Basic until I close the program - meaning that the transparency behind windows goes away, which is hardly even noticeable.

[Drace]

That's the ugliest mouse I've ever seen.

[MrMister]

Originally posted by Drace
That's the ugliest mouse I've ever seen.

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Trevlac
I work at Geek Squad. I have to deal with Vista's bullsheiza all day long. I take solace in knowing that when I clock out I'm coming home to my WinXP and Knoppix machine.

I will buy a Mac before I'll ever use Windows Vista.

PS: And so you all are aware, very few programs will work with Windows Vista. It has to be a Vista approved program to work. So Vista isn't going over so well with a lot of companies that will have to rewrite all their programs (like Enterbrain) and customers who want to keep all the expensive software they have (Like Adobe Premiere 6).  Buying Vista is paying to get rid of all the programs you use and only use ones that Microsoft's new operating system supports.

I work in an electronics store, and I have to talk with all the customers about vista as well. Most programs work perfectly fine with vista. I think the only ones that I had that didn't work was nero 6 and my tv tuner. I upgraded to nero 7 and got that solved, and my tv tuner didn't really work with windows xp much anyway, so whatever. Rpg maker and all my enterbrain programs work perfectly, all my emulators work fine, all my games work fine, and actually, its a lot more stable in running things than windows xp. Since I installed vista a month and a half ago, I never had vista freeze where I had xp freezing once a month or so. I can recover from non responding programs a lot easier, vista is better at reading corrupt files which xp can't read. Windows vista is just awesome. The only downside is that you MIGHT have to upgrade a FEW of your programs, but most of them should work with windows vista already.

[Osmose]

Vista's is very polite, if nothing else. I mass copy/pasted my entire My Documents file from one harddrive to the other (From XP to Vista), and it recognized that My Music was the music folder and offered to put it in the newly-relocated Vista Music folder. Same with pictures.

And then when I connected my iPod Vista offered to fix some corrupt data and restored part of an old essay for school that I had lost when someone kicked my iPod by accident while it was saving.