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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I have Vista installed to dual boot with XP on both my desktop and my laptop; so far, I'm nothing but impressed with Vista. All those little problems it appears to suffer from are relatively minor compared to what we all went through with early XP. I'm keeping XP on both machines for legacy purposes - some games I have (and I am an avid gamer) are far too chuggy under Vista, or simply won't run at all. This is no biggie, and I can very well imagine ( eventually) having nothing but games on my XP partition, and everything else under Vista. I don't know why Vista is getting such a bashing, as it truly is superior to XP (not just superficially). My only gripe is that many features under Vista would be fairly simple to implement under XP - but I don't imagine that XP will be given any deliberate longevity boosts while Microsoft are hard-selling their new baby. I should note that my desktop machine has an old Sempron 2800 CPU aboard, and glides through Vista very nicely, though the GF6800GT, and 1GB RAM (absolutely, the minimum you'd want to run Vista on under any circumstances, IMHO) do take a bit of strain off the CPU. I have noticed that Vista also appears to run faster and more reliably on inferior machines than XP does - with some obvious exclusions (ie- Photoshop really struggles to find elbow room on my office PC, which only has 512MB RAM, and a Celeron CPU - ugh!) - while things feel slightly under-powered, boot time, application loads, and application switching appear much improved over XP. I'm sold on it. I spent a good few weeks suggesting to anyone who asked, "give it time; wait for service packs"... but now I'm suggesting that they play around with it now. For one thing, [b]all[/b] our major clients are already transitioning to the new OS. I still intend to play around with Linux in earnest at some point (triple boot, XP/Vista/Linux perhaps), but while the pressure is on to provide Vista solutions to my clients before their respective companies complete their metamorph[i]OS[/i]is, I may as well jump in head-first. Thankfully, this hasn't left me concussed... yet. Loading...
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