nice... IE7 is weird, but is really easy once you get used to it.
time for you to add some gadgets on there too.

what is so good about vista? (I dont know anything about it) The only motive for me to buy vista was because it could utilized 64 bit cpu structure.

Is the 3d desktop actually usefull?

not really.. but it has a better looking GUI than XP... the gadgets on the sidebar are pretty useful to me too.

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woo hoo, i see my sig!

its more secure then xp was.
the desktop graphics are all rendered with 3d hardware acceleration, and not in 2d mode like they were in xp.

Networking has been extensively revamped.

Content-protections schemes for HD have been added.

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My OSX never crashed once; my Windows never crashed once.

My Mac is slick and beautiful; my PC is ordinary and boring.

My Mac is hella expensive; my PC is dirt cheap.... yea you got me there


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Aren't you worried that Vista is gonna be better than the OSX? It's gonna be a nice show-down tween the Leopard and Vista.

i have used macs for graphic design from various jobs ive had and they all crashed, even the newest osx gave me the gray screen of death 10X in a 3 month span. viva la windows

i have rc1 on my 17in macbook pro, it runs spectacular and i don't even like window's. i just run it for my 3d max program for work

forget RC1, get the RTM (release to manufacturer) final version

Windows_Vista_RTM_build_6000_16386

although its an offsite link, its genuine. you can even have microsoft validate it here

http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/whyValidate.aspx

This post has been edited by forkee: Jan 4, 2007 - 1:34 PM

^ note: that would not be a leagal copy.

a few cool features, i have RC1 on my laptop at work, runs good considering my laptop is a 1.4 ghz celeron with 512mb ram, cool part is it runs decent on that low of a system, but I dont get the aero stuff, my ALT-TAB is pretty standard. vista does let you use a usb drive to exspand system memory, my HD is pretty small so it uses 826mb of my 1gig usb flash drive, and there are noticable gains. also the file indexing is pretty slick, makes searching for files very quick. gadgets are sweet, I have a city temp one, cpu monitor, C drive monitor, memory monitor, mini outlook, battery monitor, wireless connectivity monitor, and IP/NIC info. (I kinda went overkill on em i know but does not really slow the pc down by having them there just XML docs.)

RDC is diff, kinda annoing with all the new popups and the "enter the user name/password before you connect" crap since I use it so much but no big deal.

I have duel monitors the laptops 15" and a 20.1" the sidebar (gadgets) is moved to the big screen and it handels the 2 screens without issue, also kinda cool for slower systems, when i lanch a game it drops the big screen color quality way down to run the game better.

IE7 is crap needs to be patched up like crazy, works but does not support stuff worth crap.

Office 07 is very nice, way better and much more functions.

- my $0.02

This post has been edited by creis: Jan 4, 2007 - 5:55 AM

ill pass... this os will have so much code compared to macs, and although i do have XP and never have had a mac, im not looking forward to upgrading to vista

I gotta say I use mac ox everyday and Vista is nothing to be Wowed about when your used to osx. I thought it would be better. Windows NEEDS better bundles software...but they'll be sued by every other company...like netscape a while back when they integrated internet explorer in windows.

This kinda suck for them. Because for apple its a VERY BIG selling point and marketing plan, all their included sofware like iDVD, iMovie and stuff..its really nice applications, easily some of the best I used.

and expose just rock! and the dashboard too!

This post has been edited by Rayme: Jan 4, 2007 - 9:10 PM