Re: Boycott Vista in the UK!


"Frank" <bbunny@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Phisherman" wrote
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:11:07 -0000, "Gordon"
<gbplinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

According to this BBC page http://www.microsoft.com/uk/press/executives/
users in the Uk are going to be ripped off yet again by being charged
DOUBLE
the prices charged in USA. Let's boycott Vista in the UK until this
rip-off
culture stops.

PS - if anyone has an email address for the Sales Director of MS UK I
would
like to know so that I can ask him to comment on this.


Worse than that, if you install it you'll find that your computer runs
slower than with Windows XP.


"Rock" <rock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I installed it, my computer runs great with it. Triple boot with XP. So
there goes your contention. Lots of people installing it now with the
public release. If what you said were true as a matter of course, then
people would be screaming that in the Vista newsgroups, but that's not
happening.

Depending on the hardware configuration, problems with the install, lack
of drivers, your contention is true for some systems, but not as a
general rule. But then there were people saying that XP would be a
disaster too.

When you make a blanket statement like that, without any credible
substantiation (and there can't be any in this case because your
statement is in fact not true) all you do is show a bias and lack of
knowledge.

I installed it on a test machine and it is SLOOOW.
A pretty standard box. 2 Ghz Celeron, 512 MB DDR RAM, 7200 RPM 40 Gb
hard drive, 8x nvidia 128 MB, DVD, CD-RW. SLOOOOW and no useful
upgrades.

That may be a standard box for XP, but it is low for Vista. I can install
XP on a PII 400 with 128 MB RAM and a 16 MB video card, and it will run
slow.
For Vista you should have 1 GB+ RAM with a 256 MB video card. A 2 GHz
Celeron may be acceptable, but the slowest new machines for sale now run
about 3500+ MHz. 7200 RPM HD is still the standard, though you can buy
faster ones, but 40 GB is very small now. New machines sell with at least
80 GB. I wouldn't recommend any less than 120 GB anymore.


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