Brand new VAIO - about to de-VISTA **wish me luck***
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Brand new VAIO - about to de-VISTA **wish me luck***
going back to XP on this new vaio... i really wanted to go back to best buy and refund it but i didn't want to eat the 15%.
WISH ME LUCK!
-SD
WISH ME LUCK!
-SD
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almost there
got almost all the drivers done
everything is pretty much working.
just going through the system devided and i'll fix the rest of the ones w/ the "!" tommorow.
yay! this is the first time I ever had to uninstall an OS and go to an older one.
the computer is flying now!
sd
got almost all the drivers done
everything is pretty much working.
just going through the system devided and i'll fix the rest of the ones w/ the "!" tommorow.
yay! this is the first time I ever had to uninstall an OS and go to an older one.
the computer is flying now!
sd
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Are you doing something other than just reformatting the HD and installing XP from scratch?
I saw a study that said Vista has a slower and less responsive interface than XP or Win98. Even if you turn off all the eye candy you can, it's only almost as responsive as 98 and still a far cry from XP. And I've seen multiple reports that it requires 4GB to run well. Microsoft has made 2GB the new 128k.
A few years back I bought a computer just after WinME had come out, and MS was pushing that on everyone. After that, I'll never go to a new Microsoft OS until it's been out for at least a year -- right now I have to keep suppressing the urge to run out and buy all the copies of XP I can still find on the shelf. (Well, and after ME I switched to mostly using Linux and more recently OS X.)
Originally Posted by mot
vista looks nice...
A few years back I bought a computer just after WinME had come out, and MS was pushing that on everyone. After that, I'll never go to a new Microsoft OS until it's been out for at least a year -- right now I have to keep suppressing the urge to run out and buy all the copies of XP I can still find on the shelf. (Well, and after ME I switched to mostly using Linux and more recently OS X.)
Last edited by bclee; Apr 18, 2007 at 08:10 AM.
good luck w/ the de-vista!
i'd like to do that. but i'm very computer illeterate and i'm finally getting the hang of vista. so i think i shall stick with this for a while.
=)
i'd like to do that. but i'm very computer illeterate and i'm finally getting the hang of vista. so i think i shall stick with this for a while.
=)
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Yeah, I'm not so sure about Vista yet myself..
I was looking at in in Best Buy and every time I simply moved the mouse. the CPU usage went to 7%.
On my Core2 Duo I have with XP, I can watch an HDTV stream and us 8% CPU...
I was looking at in in Best Buy and every time I simply moved the mouse. the CPU usage went to 7%.
On my Core2 Duo I have with XP, I can watch an HDTV stream and us 8% CPU...
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this duo w/ XP 2 gig ram is amazing right now.
this vaio w/ vista ... its like buying a porsche and putting a ton of bricks to weight it down.
i stayed up 'wil 4 last night taking the bricks out. so worth it.
-sd
this vaio w/ vista ... its like buying a porsche and putting a ton of bricks to weight it down.
i stayed up 'wil 4 last night taking the bricks out. so worth it.
-sd
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Originally Posted by evsoul
vista would be cool if:
it was on a minimum of service pack 1
it wasn't so damn slow
it wasn't such a resource hog
didn't require 15 gigs of harddrive space!!!!
it was on a minimum of service pack 1
it wasn't so damn slow
it wasn't such a resource hog
didn't require 15 gigs of harddrive space!!!!
When we first loaded it, it took 5 minutes to load up the desktop and "settle".
Originally Posted by bclee
Are you doing something other than just reformatting the HD and installing XP from scratch?
I saw a study that said Vista has a slower and less responsive interface than XP or Win98. Even if you turn off all the eye candy you can, it's only almost as responsive as 98 and still a far cry from XP. And I've seen multiple reports that it requires 4GB to run well. Microsoft has made 2GB the new 128k.
A few years back I bought a computer just after WinME had come out, and MS was pushing that on everyone. After that, I'll never go to a new Microsoft OS until it's been out for at least a year -- right now I have to keep suppressing the urge to run out and buy all the copies of XP I can still find on the shelf. (Well, and after ME I switched to mostly using Linux and more recently OS X.)
I saw a study that said Vista has a slower and less responsive interface than XP or Win98. Even if you turn off all the eye candy you can, it's only almost as responsive as 98 and still a far cry from XP. And I've seen multiple reports that it requires 4GB to run well. Microsoft has made 2GB the new 128k.
A few years back I bought a computer just after WinME had come out, and MS was pushing that on everyone. After that, I'll never go to a new Microsoft OS until it's been out for at least a year -- right now I have to keep suppressing the urge to run out and buy all the copies of XP I can still find on the shelf. (Well, and after ME I switched to mostly using Linux and more recently OS X.)
