Linked by John Doe on Thu 15th Feb 2007 17:56 UTC
Shock and awe; Windows Vista has been released to the hounds (that would be us). As just about every publication has reiterated a thousand times over it took 5+ years of design and development and cost USD 5.5 billion both directly and indirectly. We were promised (maybe not even promised, but bullshitted) a revolutionary operating system and what we got is for you to determine for yourselves. I personally think it's a disappointment to say the least.
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2005-11-10
"I see the problem, you have poor reading comprehension, when I said "faster", you read "same speed". This is incorrect"
Um I think you have the reading issue as you said faster and I said same speed BASED on my laptop when running XP or Vista!
"I've never experienced this on any of my PCs. Mostly this is because people fail to uninstall old software that is no longer used, and that there are a slew of crappy windows programs that think they need to load resource intensive task bar icons and startup programs. On machines without any spyware, I can get them back to their original speed by uninstalling old programs, and disabling most of the auto-start crap programs have installed if the user still wants to keep the app around. It never fails to pep the computer right up.
It's poorly written application software that's at fault, not the OS."
Wow, then I wonder why this does not happen on other OS's MAYBE it has to do with old azz fake journaling NTFS.
"Incorrect. It's schedule to run weekly at 1am on my install. "
And running at 1 AM is better then 3 AM? How many people gonna have their PC's on at 1AM for defrag to run? LOL! Anyway if NTFS wasn't so crappy you would not need to defrag. Notice us non Windows user don't need to!
"I've never experienced this on any of my PCs." this is the standard BS excuse I get from Windows users. They never see this. Yet companies like mine and Best Buy Geek Squad make 90% of their money on Windows related trouble calls because of these very issues. Even when I work with companies that have ALL Macs or even Linux machines I NEVER have to deal with any of these issues. 99% of the time I am just showing people how to network or set up printers or something.
"Simple, set the bar very low. Macs have always felt very sluggish to me, compared to XP." That is true in some cases. XP is fast out the box. (Out the box) 6 months later with crap software installed, files everywhere etc the Mac will still be running at the same speed as when you first got it. The Windows machine will be running just like the Mac or worse!
"So let the darned background defragger do its job and stop complaining."
But I thought people don't have to defrag anymore? LOL! Anyway in Windows XP you have to be a DARN admin to defrag. Also you know as well as I do that you will be hard pressed to ever finish a defrag if you are really using the machine while its working on that. (I can't say in Vista cause you can't tell when the Defrag is done or even if it ever finishes! How silly is that! LOL!