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"Rock" <Rock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"jim" <1@xxx> wrote

vista is another animal.. its an elephant...

you should not put it on your computer...
its better to soak it with gasoline and throw a match on it

My experience with Vista has been very positive. I prefer it to XP
which feels dated by comparison. I tested it through TechBeta and
have been running the Ultimate RTM since November on an almost 5 year
old PC with the original hardware. The only thing this hardware
doesn't support is Aero, there is no WDDM driver for the AGP card.
Other than that all features work fine, and there are some very nice
improvements.

So, not running Aero, what makes it look more 'up-to-date' than XP ? I'm
assuming that w/o Aero, it's just another skin.

I'm wondering what improvements would make it worth upgrading.

.

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