posted by Brandon LeBlanc
Thu, 29 Nov 2007
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Go ahead and get a Mac like I did!
I will never use a poor, useless and boring operating system from Micro$oft, even XP!
MAC OS X LEOPARD ROCKS AND KICKS WINDOWS VISTA'S ASS!
/ Windows Vista How-To Recommend People Not Using Our Products Manager with a happy christmas without Vista!
Yes, you are right!
Go ahead and buy a Mac, you'll love Apple's products!
yeah umm right
just bought a iMac computer
I hope I'm gonna love it!
I thought Leopard was locking up all the macbooks and screwing up their batteries.
say Hi to your blue screen
I am so sick of Windows Vista!
I have x64 bit Vista Home Premium with 3 GB of RAM. But Vista even feels slow!
SO GUESS WHAT? VISTA IS A SIMPLY JOKE SO I BROKE AND THROW THE VISTA DISC AND INSTALLED XP BACK
A FEW DAYS LATER A BOUGHT iMAC!!!
imac lol!!!
get a real machine
To: cx1
I may have discovered some troubles with Leopard, but not critical things like you say. I support Mac OS X, and you may support Windows. But in my point, don't worry, I am only hating the way Windows Vista was made (like the annoying UAC, the huge suck of memory and the useless user interface).
If Microsoft had made Vista the same way as XP is today, without Windows Defender (it steals RAM like hell), any Windows Live services with I never use so I uninstalled them from my computer for moths ago and without rating the security as the best part in Vista and without shutting the door for 3rd part applications, without the way Vista eats all RAM, I think Vista would be more popular.
Don't you think the way we interact with computers today is more important than how the apps and systems looks? Or am I wrong?
Best Regards,
the Windows Vista How To Not Sale Manager
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Comments are welcome!
"Windows Vista How To Not Sale Manager," (You haven't been speaking English for very long, have you?) you seem to be missing a very important point. The RAM in a computer is there to be used. Bitching about something using RAM is like buying a sports car and then compaining because all the cylinders fire. Vista has base RAM requirements, and it gladly uses up what's left over (memory that's not in use for anything else and would otherwise be sitting there idle) for caching.
Your complaints about UAC are unfounded. After dealing with a handful of them when installing applications on a fresh installation of Vista, UAC prompts are rarely seen on a day-to-day basis. Most people that have actually used Vista for a while are not bothered by them. And besides, it's one click0- Get over it.
As for your assertion that Vista "shuts the door" for third party applications, you're way off the mark. SDKs and even developer tools (VS Express editions) are available for free from Microsoft, so please tell me exactly how you think the door was shut with Vista.
If Microsoft made Vista just like XP is today, which is what you're suggesting, it would be XP. Like many, you're scared of change, unadaptable, and like to talk of things which you know very little about. And why is it that you're posting on a blog for people interested in Vista? It appears you are only here to stir up trouble and peddle your negativity. You obviously don't have enough to do.
I agree with Josh, Vista works great, if you just take the time to actually learn how to use it instead of Installing it, looking at it for 5 minutes then deciding you don't like it. I look forward to the day about 2 years from now when thanks to Intel based mac's when Mac OSX is plauged by all the same malware and viruses that Windows Has had for a LONG time...
(I love Apple) but why are Mac people trolling a Windows blog? Don't you have better things to do?
To Jaron: Because this picture is similar to the space background on Leopard.
To cx1: That "blue screen of death" thing was not Apple's fault (third party software), and it was already fixed, anyway. And tests show it runs better than Tiger, I don't know what you mean.
To Josh: You're missing a point. Tests show Vista requires more RAM than XP and is also twice as slow.
To googoo: An iMac is a real machine, very high quality and very compact/portable, and even Dell and Gateway are trying to copy it now. And did you know which laptop runs Vista the best? A MacBook Pro.
Regarding blog post, I don't know why you would want to change the picture.
would it not have been better for Microsoft to offer a way to Change your Bootscreen, themes instead of Installing an an-ad on ?? yes but this is microsoft for ya.. Microsoft does not listen to its customers
Just as retailers would get pissed off at a wholesaler/producer for selling its own products less than the retailers could, Microsoft needs to leave niches for third party developers to fill. Something like this isn't high priority for most users, and it's a great way for another product to fill a void.
Jeff, tests show that Windows XP requires over one hundred times as much RAM as Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and is at least an order of magnitude slower on the same machines. Go figure.
"SDKs and even developer tools (VS Express editions) are available for free from Microsoft"
Don't you know what you are talking about?! Microsoft Visual Studio is a product from Microsoft. Try install other development software like Adobe or Macromedia, and Vista will open the annoying UAC and tell you you are going to install "unknown and unsecure" software. Install Microsoft software and Vista says "Great, no crap, this user loves Vista, so I won't show the UAC dialog box".
I have shut down these things on my Vista machine:
Auto-Defragmenter
Automatic Updates
Indexing Service
Windows Defender (Ad-Aware 2007 ROCKS)
Windows Calendar, Media Player, Internet Explorer, and lots of useless services in Vista.
That's my "Wow" experience!
Oops, I forgot. I use a MacBook Pro, which is much more reliable. <3
"Try install other development software like Adobe or Macromedia, and Vista will open the annoying UAC and tell you you are going to install "unknown and unsecure" software."
UAC informs you that something is trying to perform a potentially dangerous operation no matter who makes it. Last time I installed Visual Studio, and other Microsoft software, I had to allow it at the UAC prompt as well. How many developers are going to be scared off from using those software packages just because UAC pops up? Most devs are smarter than the average bear, and will understand the ramifications of clicking through the UAC prompt. If those publishers want their apps to not display the yellow prompt, they should pay to be trusted- just like how companies have to purchase certificates from Verisign. Bitch much about that?
As for what you have turned off, those are all things you have ELECTED to turn off for whatever reason, be it tin-foil-hat paranoia (Microsoft Update), or that there's another product you prefer (Windows Defender). No OS is one-size-fits-all. I can't imagine who would run every daemon and use every tool that comes with any Linux distribution or a Macintosh, so why give a laundry list here of things you don't use? I use Winamp and VLC instead of Windows Media Player, but I suspect that there are far more people with Vista out there that are perfectly content with each of the applications you mentioned, since those apps fit their needs.
There's plenty of stuff on the Mac that I like, but I can't stand Quicktime and iTunes, for example. I guess OSX is a poor product since I have other preferences. Or does that center-of-the-universe line of thinking only apply to *your* opinion?
Wow - It looks like the "Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field" for some reason has kicked into high-gear just in time for the Holiday Season.
I find it rather revealing that just as these Rotten-Core fanboys started posting that Apple revealed yet more problems with their pussycat OS. Yes, Virginia - The "Leopard" is an endangered species.
Let's see what I have running all at the same time while I'm posting this comment:
SAM3 Broadcaster, streaming 2 simultaneous audio streams to my listeners.
Microsoft Outlook 2007, pulling-in 200+ emails from the FreeCycle project I'm involved in.
Two separate IE Windows.
Winamp (to foldback-monitor my streams)
MSN Messenger
Windows Sidebar with a dozen assorted gadgets.
Stardock ObjectDock.
mIRC, with 12 windows open to chat with listeners of said audio streaming.
Oh, and BTW, I'm also recording a University of Washington Computer Science Colloquium Talk using Vista Media Center.
Please note that all of this is being done simultaneously on a SINGLE-CORE AMD Athlon 64 4000+ with 1GB of average-speed OCZ RAM and a GeForce 6800-GT video card.
Let's see the cat fetishists pull all of that off at the same time - not zoomed-down into the dock, but up-in-front, on-the-screen...without crashing - oops, sorry...Macs don't crash...they just Kernel panic!
Does anyone know where i can download that background from? I already have the leopard space nebula wallpaper from here http://thedailymac.com/leopard-space-wallpaper/ but id like the one posted above also thanks :)
God bless the little iTards.
Saying that Vista is twice as slow as XP is like saying that Doom III is twice as slow as Doom. Of course it its... its a new operating system taking full advantage of todays standard hardware, but if your PC didn't keep up you're bound to get into trouble.
To Fredrik:
I have alot of services on XP that I have disabled, but mind you, if I could disable certain things in OSX i would too. Both OS's have issues with things that users don't need, its just a matter of being able to turn them off =p
mac failed the moment they introduced one button mouse click.
I have a quad Q6600 and an 8800gtx and vista busness runs like a dream...
I have been using Vista Home Premium for about 18 months now. After using Vista for this long I can honestly say that it is very stable, and i have not had any part of my OS fail at any time, unlike when I ran XP.
Macs and PCs both have pros and cons, but both have something to offer. I prefer PCs for most everything, but I do prefer to use Adobe CS3 on a Mac. Working all day in Tech Support for hundreds of computers, I deal with both sides. I am abashed that the high and mighty approach by mac has brainwashed hundreds of people into thinking that vista is somehow bad. I heard the same gripes from people when XP came out, and now its what everyone on a PC too scared to make a change swear by. Kudos to Mac for the things they have done with thier marketing campaign. Using the media, they have convinced thousands that they hold some sort of superior seat in the heiarchy of things. By making themselves as a sort of 'status symbol' they have created an image that Microsofts puny 90 summod percent of the market shares means nothing, and that Microsoft does not know what it is doing. I do not think Microsoft is perfect, in fact they are far from it. When it all comes down to it I would not trade the customizability of my PC for anything in the world, including the fabled 'virus free' Mac systems. After beating my vista machine to death with countless customizations, and hundreds of tests, I give it my approval to be very stable, and enjoyable to use. I know that it is not for everyone, and I am sorry to hear those of you who have had problems, but sometimes the problem can be between the screen and the keyboard. ;) (Thats where Macs become helpful, not much thinking involved it tells you what to do.)
I agree with Preston.
Vista works fine on high-end PC's, and you can play games too.
Mac's are good for video editing, artwork and music making, but extremely expensive for what they are. Their phones are too expensive as well.
i got a vista, but it crashed the first to 2 weeks!
returned it got a iMAC! for the past 3 months...
-NO CRASH
-STILL FASTER THAN VISTA WHEN I 1ST OPENED IT
-GOT AN iPHONE 3G!
-MAC KICKS VISTA'S BUTT! HELL YEAH!