James_DT
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Cambridgeshire
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Use Vista, OSX and XP.
I prefer Vista out of the lot.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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Tried vista a few times - like the looks of it but it doesn't seem as quick and like to nab all of your resources for no reason.
Use OSX or XP (currently XP64)....don't have problems with either
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
Location: Armchair
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you ... use... xp... 64....
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I use Vista Ultimate x64.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Vista does use all the resources, why should it not, there is no point in memory sitting doing nothing, as soon as something else wants it it'll give it up.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I specced my PC up so it has all the resources Vista needs to waste. Works fine now I have all the wierd issues I had a while back sorted out.
If I cared about wasting resources I would run a UNIX machine by the command prompt and not even use a GUI.
[Edited on 30-06-2008 by ed]
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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i just went to sort my sisters pc out, its XP dont know how i got on with that vista is so simple when you get used to it.
Dont have a problem with speed here 4gb ram
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kz
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Registered: 9th Aug 02
Location: Southend, Essex Drives: Mini Cooper S
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quote: Originally posted by Richie
Machines in our company never have Vista if they have less than 2gb of RAM.
Vista + Office 2007 + 1Gb RAM = fucked
ive been running vista ultimate with 512mb ram for almost a year with no problems
most people seem to agree that i must have the best 512mb in the world though
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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Laptop - Vista
Pc - Windows Xp
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
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vista at home and work. xp and ubuntu on the laptop
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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XP on all the PC/Laptops in my house.
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dave17
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Registered: 3rd Sep 02
Location: Greater London
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Vista at home with 4gb ram, no problems to report
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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quote: Originally posted by kz
quote: Originally posted by Richie
Machines in our company never have Vista if they have less than 2gb of RAM.
Vista + Office 2007 + 1Gb RAM = fucked
ive been running vista ultimate with 512mb ram for almost a year with no problems
most people seem to agree that i must have the best 512mb in the world though
You must do because we got a new laptop recently that had vista and came with 512mb of RAM. It barely worked so the first thing I did was upgrade it's memory...
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Tim
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Registered: 21st Apr 00
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Vista for MediaCenter (much nicer than XP MediaCenter) and laptop, Solaris for server, Debian for desktop...
Stick with Windows for a laptop IMO. It's a pain in the arse to get all the power saving features working under Linux (nVidia SmartDimmer support was crap last time I played).
[Edited on 02-07-2008 by Tim]
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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Vista Business 32 on the Main PC and XP Pro on the laptop
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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I think Windows 98 is where its at. XP was naff.
Running Vista Business.
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Laney
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Registered: 6th May 03
Location: Leeds
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OSX, Vista and various flavours of Linux. All have different purposes so its difficult to pick one!
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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XP on desktop, Vista on desktop, XP on laptop, XP on laptop, Server 2008 Datacenter on server. XP on test PC ready for 2nd Microsoft exam later this month.
XP on works laptop to save power and Vista on PC.
Still to try out Linux when i get chance. I want a Mac too
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Vista is nice to play with imo but no good in a work enviroment unless you have a beast of a PC.
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Simon_16v
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Registered: 14th Aug 06
Location: Yorkshire
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Running OSX Leopard 10.5x
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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quote: Originally posted by Russ
you ... use... xp... 64....
nout wrong with it - quicker to boot than vista, less bloaty than vista and yet *touch wood* to get a BSOD unlike vista
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Superlite Ltd.
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Registered: 9th Jan 07
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kubuntu
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PhilC
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Registered: 21st Jan 06
Location: Lancs, UK
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control panel, user accounts, disable UAC
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Vista hasn't died once on me since I bought the laptop last May.
My XP desktop however randomly restarts leaving me with 15 minutes of lost work
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