Here we go.. :D
GL fella, wish Id never bothered... its not the most stable thing in the world. But it looks pretty.
Cheers
Tongy
I made the plunge on my media center a month ago. Tis a superb operating system. Only quib was that I need to upgrade my graphics card and soundcard only because they were onboard and not supported. Other than that, it really is the biz!
Well it booted, lovely jubbly.
Works great, its a bit of a resource whore but on a 1.83ghz computer I expect it to be, looks lovely though, and works nice and quick :) only reason I know its a resource whore is because the cpu gadget is showing 70% cpu usage pretty much constantly :D
been using it for a while. 64bit.
ROck solid Stable :-D
Not that Ive got, or am going to......but whats vista like for being copied/cracked etc. Just everyone I know really on XP, its a cracked copy. Just wondered if its as easy with vista as it was with xp!?
I wont be saying asta la vista to XP for a good while!
Quote from: chrisdickoNot that Ive got, or am going to......but whats vista like for being copied/cracked etc. Just everyone I know really on XP, its a cracked copy. Just wondered if its as easy with vista as it was with xp!?
There is a nice Dell OEM Ultimate Vista floating around that i will hopefully be installing in the near future if I can work out how to do a dual boot with my current XP install.
Ill post if I ever get round to completing the install
Quote from: sexytwQuote from: chrisdickoNot that Ive got, or am going to......but whats vista like for being copied/cracked etc. Just everyone I know really on XP, its a cracked copy. Just wondered if its as easy with vista as it was with xp!?
There is a nice Dell OEM Ultimate Vista floating around that i will hopefully be installing in the near future if I can work out how to do a dual boot with my current XP install.
Ill post if I ever get round to completing the install
*cough* Ive had no problem with said dvd. 64bit as well!
I am still pondering if I should get it or not before I move to NZ along with the hardrive and graphics card I plan to get
Cam pre installed on my new Medion. I dont mind it - its pretty and all and once Im familiar with it Im sure Ill be as quick on it as I am on XP. However at the minute I still feel like Im on XP with a new GUI over the top and I always feel like I want to hit close somewhere to take me back to my old desktop. Ill get used it.
I love the media center by the way and the remote I got with it - but it crashes loads when accessing folders with loads of divx files and such.
I have Vista Business on this specced machine:
Core2Duo E6300
Corsair XMS2 2gb PC5300 DDR2
Asrock 4core board (getting a quad core soon)
2 x 250gb seagate (mirrored)
Asus nvidia 7300GT 128mb overclock pcie gfx card
DVDRW
Not a bad specced machine, but not the fastest... and it groans, using almost 800mb idling with just AV (and all its own services) running.
It looks lovely, and alot of the features it has are pretty good but I have had major problems with stability, having to hold the old power button for 4-5 seconds more than a few times.
I know its not the hardware causing the instability as I reloaded XP onto it and ran it for a couple of weeks without any lockups and without any crashes. I might try Business 64bit though to see if thats any better.
Also, anyone else had the... "is the gfx card working?" moment on boot of Vista....when the screen goes blank for ages?
Im still advising my customers to run XP for a bit.
See on my machine, its using like 800mb ram... but like Ive 1.5gb im not fussed :D lol
Also cpu usage is always around the 70% mark if not higher, and thats a constant thing.
But... and heres the crux of it. Takes like 10 seconds to boot into a usable session of windows, Opening IE7 is instantaneous, opening xchat, my ftp client, and other programs also instantaneous.
I can browse C, and its loading the window before I have lifted my finger from the double click.
It may be whoring my resources, but its making damn good use of them! :D
Got Vista Ultimate installed today, dual booting nicely with my good old XP. Really wasnt difficult, just make a new partition and install it there. Vista handles the boot loader for you.
It seems ok, very pretty. Unfortunately im only running a Semptron 3000 (or a 1700XP cant remember which is in there) and 1Gb of RAM. So it chuggs like anything. Wont even open media center.
Good enough for my to play with though. Plus I didnt have a faff around with activation, serials and any of that mess. Updates just fine too. Very useful.
Has there been a budget release or is there a demo version available? Im tempted to get it but I wanna see how its come on from the beta first.
I had vista ultimate on my work laptop (Came on it)
Gave it a chance for a few weeks, removed it as I got sick of hangs and that infuriating spinning cursor every time I tried to browse network shares etc.
First impressions were
where the hell is telnet
what has happened to hyperterm
ffs ethereal isnt working
checkpoint client not working properly
etc etc
Ill give it another go in 1 yr.
Quote from: Markwhere the hell is telnet
You have to install it as an extra windows component.
Quote from: Markwhat has happened to hyperterm
Id like to know this too - but what do you use it for? If its to talk to devices with serial ports instead of telnet then youre better off without it - most annoying prog. ever in this regard!
Quote from: Markffs ethereal isnt working
The newest version does.
Quote from: Markcheckpoint client not working properly
Not got a checkpoint server at home, but will test soon. What bits dont work?
Quote from: Marketc etc
?
Quote from: MarkIll give it another go in 1 yr.
I dont think its that bad!
Im a couple of hours away ;) from installing it, anything I should look out for?
nah not really. just installed nice and easy, even finds drivers automatically in my case. :)
Since I need a laptop its going to get vista so I will stick with that
Spent about an hour playing with it, not overly impressed. It looks pretty but doesnt do anything that I need that XP doesnt, Ill give it a try again in a few months.
Oh, and my god, what a resource hog!
Quote from: DeltaZeroQuote from: Markwhere the hell is telnet
You have to install it as an extra windows component.
Quote from: Markwhat has happened to hyperterm
Id like to know this too - but what do you use it for? If its to talk to devices with serial ports instead of telnet then youre better off without it - most annoying prog. ever in this regard!
Quote from: Markffs ethereal isnt working
The newest version does.
Quote from: Markcheckpoint client not working properly
Not got a checkpoint server at home, but will test soon. What bits dont work?
Quote from: Marketc etc
?
Quote from: MarkIll give it another go in 1 yr.
I dont think its that bad!
Ill tell you who uses hyperterm or the likes - me, on a daily basis. Most of the time my laptop is on I have hyperterm open if im in windows. I cant do my job without it.
Hyperterm is an excellent bit of software imo, simple, easy, and quick.
Im sitting right now with a hyperterm window opened setting up a netilla box for a customer that Im putting in tomorrow. Just about every appliance on the market has a COM port for initial config.
You can download the personal edition of hyperterm for windows vista, and other programs still may be beginning to work, but its still too slow, and there are still issues when browsing network shares - the final nail in the coffin for me was when I was sitting for TWENTY minutes waiting for slowsta to open a shared folder on a SAN - it was as if the OS was reading and executing every file in the folder - just like AmigaDOS when you put a disc in - how annoying was that....
in fact, i must compile my list of grievances with the much maligned OS and post them up