Vista Final - Solitaire

[AmigaHeretic]

Ok I work at one of those "Big Box" computer stores.  We set up lots of new PC day in and day out.  (HP's, Gateways, etc.)  

Anyway, got a copy of Vista final to take home to play on.  Installed it on my system.  I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2gb of dual channel RAM, SATA HD, and an ATI 9200SE.  

Install Windows, goes through pretty quick.  Here I am at the new desktop.  What to try first?  IE - Yep can browse web pages. Nice.

Next, better try out Solitare, I know all the old ladies will be asking about that.  First I get a message that my graphics card is not "powerful" enough to run solitare so they will have to reduce the graphics features!!  

HA HA HA...

So it comes up and looks pretty much the same, but the cards move SOOOOOOOO slow.  They don't even slide, you just click on them and then click where you want to put them and it takes forever.  

I hate Windows! :-)

Everything else I've tested seems to work good so far though.

[Tahoe]

Being a TechNet + subscriber I have had my hands on Vista (and Office) for a month or so (the retail version that is; not the beta's).

I must say it does run quite smoothly on my Core 2, 2GB ram, Ati X1900XT. Funny thing though: I have an internal card reader which does not seem to be recognised at all; no missing hardware in my devices list; but it simply does not work

And ofcourse; specially in the beginning lots of programs wouldn't work; think of Nero and McAfee etc....

But honestly; Vista looks very good; but what's new apart from the looks?

[TheMud]

I have it for almost 2 weeks  now, and I don't like it. I have a Dell with 2 GhZ Dual Core,  2GB Ram, 512 MB Graphics, and it run's ok on that machine.... BUT.. SOoOooo many things are just directly stolen and copied from Mac OS X. And good old 06 software doesnt even run on Vista. The OS takes almost all the Power from the Computer, and that kills all other Applications  that you want to start or they run crappy slow.

I tried to run it on my Intel Pentium 4 - 3 GhZ to and it was so slow... Oh boy... Not good at all..... Dont understand how Microsoft, can think its good, to make a OS that demands sooo much power from the computer *Badr*

But the looks of Vista is good. Just stolen from Mac *S*

Anyway... My PC's can keep Vista installed, cos I dont like
Linux *S*  Linux is for Nerds and not the normal user *LOL*

Hmmm... Well the laptop will keep XP, cos there Vista wont
run... But I will only keep Windows on those, until either
Apple release Mac OS X for normal PC's, or until Amiga OS4
can run on them *G*

Tahoe wrote:
Being a TechNet + subscriber I have had my hands on Vista (and Office) for a month or so (the retail version that is; not the beta's).

Hmmmm Tahoe ... ?! It's quite easy to get the hands on for
everyone... And you know that *S*

Apple and Amiga Forever ... **S**

[keropi]

there is no excuse to have a 64 x2 machine with 2GBram and have a 9200 vga... LOL!

[motorollin]

It sounds crap.

--
moto

[keropi]

vista is gonna set new standards, either you like it or not, like xp did, and 95/98 did before.
you cannot deny that whatever you say and it is history repeating again....
so yeah, features in soliter can be disabled if they made it use pixel shader 2 or 3, there is no support in an old 9200 card... like when 95 came, all pc users ditched old ISA cards and moved to PCI... so what? evolution.
and if you make a funny remark about windows being crap or {bleep}ty, well then, you either don't want to see facts as they are, or just sucking up because this is an amiga site and u have yet another chance to praise AOS/MacOS or whatever OS....

[Colani1200]

Seriously guys, why don't you just spam some M$ forum with this discussion? No one with at least a little remains of brain in his skull gives a damn about Vista.

[adz]

Two word that describe how I feel about Vista:

"Not interested"

Thanks to Vista, I now have an excuse to completely go Mac. Let the sheep have their HP's and Dell's loaded with this tripe, I'll be one happy camper in Mac land :-)

[InTheSand]

keropi wrote:
vista is gonna set new standards, either you like it or not, like xp did, and 95/98 did before.

The only new standards Vista sets are those of the sheer amount of hardware required to run it...

After all, Vista is basically XP with extra eye candy, which was basically Windows 2000 with extra eye candy, which itself was basically Windows NT with plug 'n' play and USB support.

Windows 95 set new standards - it had to really, to replace the extremely dire Windows 3.x series. 98 and the useless Me were just evolutions of the 95 base.

And NT set new standards as it was a 32-bit version of Windows built from the ground up. Subsequent releases of Windows as we now know it are still just evolutionary changes to Windows NT.

like when 95 came, all pc users ditched old ISA cards and moved to PCI... so what? evolution.

This change wasn't specifically because of Windows 95 though... Granted, Win95 made it easier to use such cards, but PCI existed before Win95, and ISA cards continued to be used well after its release.

if you make a funny remark about windows being crap or {bleep}ty, well then, you either don't want to see facts as they are

What you mean here is that you don't want other people to see things from a different point of view...

Honestly, other than a load of eye candy and a few extra bundled applications, what does Vista give people that they can't already do using Windows 2000 and/or XP?

 - Ali

[mendark]

Anyway, got a copy of Vista final to take home to play on. Installed it on my system. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2gb of dual channel RAM, SATA HD, and an ATI 9200SE.

It requires at least a superduper GFX card with *sign, watch out, marketing strategy coming up* 256Mb. Can you believe it, you need at least 256Mb to run Solitare :crazy: you better play that Solitare Reko Amiga game on a standard 1200

I hate Windows!

... and I always will

I'm not even trying it on my AMD mobile 2500. And why should I? I just got grip on XP. Finally it's running smoothly (so far possible).

[mick_aka]

Aquired a copy of Vista from work, came home and installed on my peecee (P4 3.4Ghz Nothwood HT, 2gig RAM, Radeon EAX1800XT) as others have said aside from the look theres not allot of difference, and strangely enough neither my in-built or USB card reader worked.
It will however run solataire quickly enough
Virtually all my software has some sort of issue with it, so for the moment im back to XP.

[TheMud]

adz wrote:
Two word that describe how I feel about Vista:

"Not interested"

Thanks to Vista, I now have an excuse to completely go Mac. Let the sheep have their HP's and Dell's loaded with this tripe, I'll be one happy camper in Mac land :-)

I do soooooooooo agree with you *S*

[HopperJF]

TheMud wrote:

adz wrote:
Two word that describe how I feel about Vista:

"Not interested"

Thanks to Vista, I now have an excuse to completely go Mac. Let the sheep have their HP's and Dell's loaded with this tripe, I'll be one happy camper in Mac land :-)

I do soooooooooo agree with you *S*

Me too. There is no reason to use Vista, when OS X is around. It just does everything a lot better. Apart from crash, run sluggish and get spyware/virus infested  :-D

[monami]

get us a drm capable os and quick...

[TheMud]

I have only experienced one single crash on my iMac with OS X 10.4

And that was with MS Word *LOL*