[plug] [OT] Vista is a serious mess?

[Paul Dean]

Hi,

Only avoid it for 6 mths.....how about forever.. :-)

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Paul Dean.
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:34:44 +0900
Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:

> caston at arach.net.au wrote:
> > I quoted a customer for a new system recently being careful to
> > quote them for XP instead of Vista yet on advice from their
> > accountant they decided to flexi-rent a HP Media centre PC from
> > Harvey Normans running Vista retailed for more than double my
> > quote.  
> >
> > The setup was terrible. IE kept failing to respond and had to be
> > shutdown sometimes taking nearly 5 minutes. The system was utterly
> > sluggish. Took a lot of tweaking to get it to play right with
> > Telstra NextG USB wireless device. The system was behaving like
> > most OS's behave when they have bad RAM but I ran memtest86 over it
> > and found no problems.
> >
> > In the end I sold them a OEM copy of XP, nuked the Vista install
> > and put XP on. The XP installed worked fine.
> >
> > SO to try and bring this ontopic I don't think Linux is going to
> > have much trouble competing with Vista. They have really laid a
> > turd with this one. However I admit I am yet to try Vista on a PC
> > with more than 1gb of RAM. With Vista 1gb RAM could be the new 256
> > or even 128mb.
> >
> > I have yet to meet a customer that is happy with Vista even when it
> > does seem to run OK. As one customer said "it slows everything
> > down".
> >
> > best regards,
> >
> > Chris
> >   
> I have to reply to this if only to say that all my initial encounters 
> are coming back the same with most people claiming 2Gb or even 4Gb is 
> required and generally being disappointed with their purchase.
> 
> To quote a friend of mine who has a knack for summing things up
> nicely, I recently heard him say, "Microsoft Windows Vista:  Putting
> the 'meh' in 'wow' since 2007."
> 
> Personally I'm going to try and avoid it for at least the next six 
> months... and then some.
> 


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Thanks

Paul Dean.
Mob: 0403 622 009

Your IT Administrator Extraordinaire

QOTD
"Life is not WHAT you make it, it's WHO you have in it..."


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toadstools that think they are truffles.
		-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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