Comments on: Vista SP2 Coming Shortly

By: steb

steb — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:02:38 +0000

re Vista: it took me less than 10 minutes to disable unneeded services, stop the UAC and tweak my 64bit Vista. Runs like a champ on my laptop.

As a game developer, you wouldn’t believe the punishment we put our machines through.
I don’t know any software engineer who would seriously use an Apple product when they can get so much more for their money.

For the same price of a Macbook Pro, I have a laptop with a intel T9500, 2x320gb drives in raid, 8GB RAM, and an nvidia GeForce 9700M GTS.

If you enjoy paying 2-3 times the price for your Macbook… just so you can come to web forums and post how clever you are… then good on you.

I prefer to simply buy a better machine for my money.

By: James Hill

James Hill — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:22:13 +0000

#6 – You do know there’s no such thing as Server Grade in Windows (or Mac) land, right? It’s the same base processes in both.

By: Named

Named — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:52 +0000

12,
See my comment #7.

By: pedro

pedro — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:41:29 +0000

#5 Why, because they were wise enough to avoid the aggravation?

By: The Warden

The Warden — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:07:51 +0000

The new Apple Ad with PC divvying up the $350 million AD/Fix Vista money is absolutely classic.

One really has to scratch their head about just how horrible MSFT commercials (Mojave/Seinfeld) are. They have done more to hurt MSFT than help.

By: zefyr

zefyr — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:59:03 +0000

All 7 people who care about Vista?
http://i37.tinypic.com/2r57xvn.jpg

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:49:40 +0000

5,
NOW try to backup the OS and programs SEPARATELY..

By: jim h

jim h — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:43:00 +0000

#5 sargasso – that’s cool but – you’re saying you’re irritated by the “critics” who won’t just spend “2 weeks” getting Vista to run decently?

By: comhcinc

comhcinc — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:37:10 +0000

if you are a student you can get a copy of server 08 for free.

By: Named

Named — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:23:48 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/6p7wlq

By: Named

Named — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:22:25 +0000

You should just get Windows Server 2008 instead. It’s Vista, but Server grade. And pretty awesome. And if you want, you can add ALL the desktop effects from the consumer version.

By: sargasso

sargasso — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:38:41 +0000

I just finished two weeks of chucking out the junk from my Vista Enterprise PC, honed the system down, and it’s better. A lot better. Remove all the annoying safeties, stop all the self starting apps, remove unused drivers, minimize the system loads on the hardware by using a barebones theme, and it is much better than XPSP3. What irritates me are the critics who never actually use it.

By: JimD

JimD — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:08:57 +0000

SP2 ??? Needs SAYONARA PACK – PERIOD !!!

By: hhopper

hhopper — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:02:17 +0000

If you think you have to have an iPhone, get an iPod Touch for all the goodies and then buy a cheap throw-away phone like JCD uses and you’ve got it made. An iPod touch is identical to an iPhone except it’s not a phone and it doesn’t have 3G, but it does have WiFi with WPA.

By: ECA

ECA — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:46:28 +0000

V2 HITS MS..
Wow, neat news..when Win 7? is due in about 1 year??