Vista!

[jsbowden]

Wow!

This really fucking sucks!

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

So, details!

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

So I've heard.

Once peglegpete is back from across the pond, I'm sure you two can commiserate.

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've yet to run into anything that has caused me any problems. Then again, I'm only using it for an hour or two each day, and all I've done so far has been some photo editing with GIMP and been on the internet with Thunderbird and Firefox.

What horrible pain can I expect to encounter, and more importantly, how can I blame Skwid for this?

[prince-corwin.livejournal.com]

Yes, please. I need some schaadenfreude.
Maybe other people can tell me if a Mac and a 360 will cover my computing and gaming needs, when the time comes.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Computing, almost certainly. Gaming, uh, well, no, unless you like console games and damaged versions of PC games that are a few years old. If you don't mind accepting that, then sure, it will meet all your needs.

[prince-corwin.livejournal.com]

Bear in mind that I don't need anything close to a Doom (or modern equivalent) gaming set up. I hate FPS.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Even then.

If all you ever play is The Sims, Starcraft, and World Of Warcraft, a mac is plenty good enough for gaming.

[paradoxicmotion.livejournal.com]

Damaged versions of PC games? I suppose, from a certain perspective?

Really, if it's not WoW or some other Blizzard title, you're better off just keeping a 20-30 GB Boot Camp partition on your machine and using that for games.

What's damaged about booting Windows via Boot Camp to fill my non-console gaming needs? Nothing, says I.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What's damaged about booting Windows via Boot Camp to fill my non-console gaming needs? Nothing, says I.

And "it requires dealing with Vista, once you reach the point where XP no longer supports the games, which was the critical part of the question", says I.

The question was about using a mac to avoid ever "upgrading" to Vista.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yup.

It's like XP, but ugly and a lot of things have been moved to nonintuitive places. As well, it's got all that wonderful THE USER CANNOT BE TRUSTED functionality built right in!

Isn't it FUN?

[warpedpuppy.livejournal.com]

Vista is why I ended up buying a laptop earlier than I planned on - I didn't want that on my computer.

[markerikson.livejournal.com]

I like it. But I think it looks much nicer than XP, and what isn't exactly the same as Vista is generally better. And I haven't had a single problem with it that wasn't driver related (Nvidia and Creative are still working with beta drivers for Vista). The "cancel/allow" stuff is annoying, but it crops up less and less after the initial installation of software.

I ran Half-Life 2 on it and it ran fine. I ran Oblivion on it and it ran fine. And I'm planning on running C&C3 on it very soon, with the expectation that it will run just fine.

However, I am running a brand new PC with an Core 2 Duo CPU and 8800GTS graphics card. I have heard that it makes older systems struggle.

[paoconnell.livejournal.com]

Does this mean I need to buy an XP Pro license for my next system? I've been considering that...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

XP Pro licenses are downgradable to 2K. I suspect Vista Business and XP Pro will have the same relationship.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I love vista! I don't own vista, or intend to run it, but I love it!

[selki.livejournal.com]

?

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I love that I don't have to share in the suffering.