ilovewindows7
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vista isnt an option for me, lol its slowest operating system ive used, id rather use a mac "shudder".
vista isnt an option for me, lol its slowest operating system ive used, id rather use a mac "shudder".
GODS sake it's BETA if you can't handle that wait for the full version.. BETA is for TESTING not for USING all the TIME
Windows Vista is a decent operating system that should be targeted for deployment on higher end hardware. Windows 7 has more potential than Vista because it uses system resources more efficiently and has a smaller memory trail. I'm not sure the drug references are convincing, but I'd prefer Windows Vista on my laptop over XP any day of the week. XP requires too much maintenance and constant patching - it is vulnerable to security problems and it is going the way of Windows 2000. This is a good analogy because I could very easily install Windows 2000 which will run very fast, but it can't support newer hardware, it has thousands of kernel level problems that were corrected in the XP and Vista kernels, and it isn't optimized for multi-core processors. Why take the risk of XP? I prefer Vista.
Fair comment.
Also I realise Vista uses around 500megs more of ram but so what. If you have 4 gigs in your system memory(some of us are lucky enough to have more) it doesnt really make a difference. The thing is we all remember how bad Vista was when it first come out, so was XP. What Im saying is Vista hasnt just come out and most of its problems have been seen to and the thing works. Yet people are still unhappy with it. I would be interested to know if you are willing to turn your back on 7 7 so fast if and when it runs into problems.
I can understand that with your hardware
Would I turn my back.... ? im not sure if your asking me this or not, but iof so the answer would be a resounding no.
Hey datagg this is for you. I'm one of those guys who's sound card didn't work because drivers weren't available for Vista for a year after it came out. Next time, Microsoft can engineer a program that's compatible with hardware that's already out there. Microsoft kept juggling Vista around and developers didn't know what the final version of Vista would look like, so they couldn't and wouldn't develop drivers until after Vista was released.
I gave Vista a fair chance, but after two months of no pro grade sound card, I had to go back to XP. I had no choice. Onboard sound cards don't make the grade when trying to do professional quality music recording on a computer, they add noise, that you'd only hear when you're doing quiet recordings. Onboard sound cards are junk compared to pro quality cards. My Delta 1010 LT is a ten channel sound card designed for quality recording, and was fairly expensive. I'm not about to trash it because Microsoft designs an operating system that won't work with it. I'm not alone in this, ask any professional recording engineer which operating system they prefer for pro grade music recording, and most will tell you to go with XP.
Hey datagg this is for you. I'm one of those guys who's sound card didn't work because drivers weren't available for Vista for a year after it came out. Next time, Microsoft can engineer a program that's compatible with hardware that's already out there. Microsoft kept juggling Vista around and developers didn't know what the final version of Vista would look like, so they couldn't and wouldn't develop drivers until after Vista was released.
I gave Vista a fair chance, but after two months of no pro grade sound card, I had to go back to XP. I had no choice. Onboard sound cards don't make the grade when trying to do professional quality music recording on a computer, they add noise, that you'd only hear when you're doing quiet recordings. Onboard sound cards are junk compared to pro quality cards. My Delta 1010 LT is a ten channel sound card designed for quality recording, and was fairly expensive. I'm not about to trash it because Microsoft designs an operating system that won't work with it. I'm not alone in this, ask any professional recording engineer which operating system they prefer for pro grade music recording, and most will tell you to go with XP.
My SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty also had problems with Vista. There were no working drivers same problem as you. I have to ask, whos fault is that? Creatives or Microsofts?
To what end sir........ Are all new things made today and into the future supposed to support your old setup. is this how you feel in life too, that all new things are supposed to work with your older setups... That new fancy remote is suppoed to work with your older tv.......... Please, give me break for god sakes..... Im sorry, but that mentality is of the charts man.... i cant even think of what else to say on it...... ridiculous...
My SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty also had problems with Vista. There were no working drivers same problem as you. I have to ask, whos fault is that? Creatives or Microsofts?
Microsoft takes the heat because they designed an operating system that was incompatible with existing hardware. If I would have known it was going to take a year for drivers to be developed, I wouldn't have rush out to buy Vista. Most third party manufacturers don't have the resources Microsoft does, so keeping up with Microsoft, can be a costly thing for manufacturers. I was thinking Vista's compatibility program would work with my sound card, but it didn't. Microsoft has to put out products that are compatible with what's out there. Luckily, Windows 7 IS compatible with my hardware and my important software, so Windows 7 looks like a winner to me.
This W7 beta trial period is perfect for me, as I can test out the hardware and software BEFORE I buy W7. So far, it's looking really good !!
Yeh but Windows 7 didnt even have working drivers for my optical drives when I first installed it. lol you have to do registry hack to get them working.
That sucks that the drivers were not ready for a year after the Vista release, but what do you expect Microsoft to do about it? Write their own drivers for your high end sound card? It is unfortunate that not all hardware manufactures can keep up with Windows and in some cases you are better off sticking with what works. But I dont think that M$ is to blame because there was no driver support for your hardware.
What did I expect Microsoft to do ?? Let us know that current hardware doesn't work with their new OS. They touted their compatibility program, that was supposed to make everything that was compatible with XP, compatible with Vista....... Sorry but it didn't work out that way.
OLD Hardware ??? What do you know...nothing. That sound card was only 6 months old when Vista came out. It's a professional grade sound card, there's 1000's of them out there, and Vista rendered them all useless.
Here's a picture of it.....
Well, the sound card works now, who's fault is that ?? M-Audio's for taking the time and spending the money to develop new software that will work with Vista. This time around Microsoft got the compatibility program working right, as my Vista drivers do indeed work with Windows 7.