Comments on: Now look – I’m no MSFT basher, but… http://issuesblog.com/2008/01/28/now-look-im-no-msft-basher-but/ Blather on business, pontification on politics, & mutterings on miscellanea Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Patton http://issuesblog.com/2008/01/28/now-look-im-no-msft-basher-but/comment-page-1/#comment-476 Michael Patton Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:24:30 +0000 http://issuesblog.com/2008/01/28/now-look-im-no-msft-basher-but/#comment-476 Seriously, I've been stifling this urge for some time, thinking that it will eventually get better. And it never does - at odd times of the day or night, the machine just stops responding to me, all running applications lock up, and I'm forced to wait until they unlock before moving forward. It's a memory hog, which isn't a big deal - most anyone can double the memory in their computer (as I've already done here). The problem is that it's got inherent flaws that memory won't fix. The memory footprint is literally twice that of XP, and the performance appears to be half that of XP. When I really need to get something done in a hurry, I could borrow my old Thinkpad (half the memory, only single processor, lower clock speed, but running XP) from my daughter and be miles ahead. Vista's flatly a piece of crap, in other words. I'll never buy another machine with Vista installed, and if I'm ever asked (by someone that I don't hate) whether they should install Vista, I'll answer with an definitive No! Seriously, I’ve been stifling this urge for some time, thinking that it will eventually get better. And it never does – at odd times of the day or night, the machine just stops responding to me, all running applications lock up, and I’m forced to wait until they unlock before moving forward.

It’s a memory hog, which isn’t a big deal – most anyone can double the memory in their computer (as I’ve already done here). The problem is that it’s got inherent flaws that memory won’t fix. The memory footprint is literally twice that of XP, and the performance appears to be half that of XP.

When I really need to get something done in a hurry, I could borrow my old Thinkpad (half the memory, only single processor, lower clock speed, but running XP) from my daughter and be miles ahead.

Vista’s flatly a piece of crap, in other words. I’ll never buy another machine with Vista installed, and if I’m ever asked (by someone that I don’t hate) whether they should install Vista, I’ll answer with an definitive No!

]]> By: Jordan http://issuesblog.com/2008/01/28/now-look-im-no-msft-basher-but/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Jordan Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:36:03 +0000 http://issuesblog.com/2008/01/28/now-look-im-no-msft-basher-but/#comment-475 AHHAAAH! Believe it or not I've been wanting to ask someone who knows about such things for a few months. I noticed a while ago that when I restarted in safe mode (a simulacrum of Win 95 or somesuch, not bells-and-whistles Vista anyway), pursuant to a big blue screen of death crash (creepily overfrequent, now), <i>my machine ran like a fucking dream</i>. Really fast, properly fast. And so I began to wonder, maybe my new HP's mysterious performance issues aren't anything of the sort, maybe Vista just sucks. I find your confirmation of this possibility, like most of what I know you ever to have said, intriguing, and perhaps when a couple more months of blithe passivity have gone by, I will revert. Gotta find the disk somewhere..... AHHAAAH! Believe it or not I’ve been wanting to ask someone who knows about such things for a few months. I noticed a while ago that when I restarted in safe mode (a simulacrum of Win 95 or somesuch, not bells-and-whistles Vista anyway), pursuant to a big blue screen of death crash (creepily overfrequent, now), my machine ran like a fucking dream. Really fast, properly fast. And so I began to wonder, maybe my new HP’s mysterious performance issues aren’t anything of the sort, maybe Vista just sucks. I find your confirmation of this possibility, like most of what I know you ever to have said, intriguing, and perhaps when a couple more months of blithe passivity have gone by, I will revert. Gotta find the disk somewhere…..

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