Vista, fiesta; Finally
 

Vista fiesta...

Finally out.

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Wait 5-6 years for them to get the bugs out.

You must be very optimistic, do you think 5-6 years is enough?:)
Do you see no bug in your XP or for that mater Win2000, millennium, 98...

XP is stable enough. My work computer number crunches day after day after day without problems.

Every one needs to go with this motto especially with older hard ware.

From prior experience, I know we(PC lovers or users) all sooner than later will get into Vista, no mater what, but from what I am hearing the nice features of vista come at a price and heavily hardware dependability. For example though the min. recommended ram is 512MB, a comfortable level of working is achieved only at 4GB or higher.....

Currently we're recommending our users not to upgrade. A few things have changed internally which causes things a run a little oddly.

They had to end assistance for win 95, 98, millennium, 2000 and they still contained loads of bugs and security holes you could drive a bus through. At least they've said they will offer assistance for XP until 2011 or later.

I dont think I'll be installing Vista anytime soon on my computers, it's huge bloatware and is so full of bugs and other issues that it's bound to cause major problems for computer users who are less than proficient at sorting out Microsoft problem systems. One usefull thing it has going for it, it will provide the computer problem sorters and repair men in dosh for some considerable time - THANK'S Microsoft.

nirofo.

I am sure Vista will be great for people who have the hardware do it justice. I understand it can make efficient use of dual core processors and access more RAM but for me with technology from 2003 probably designed in 2000 I think as nirofo suggests it will be bloatware struggling to run properly on my system.

Besides I only use my PC for Internet, e-mails and processing/storing photos.

Dare I admit I am on the fence to try a MAC should my computer fail.

I certainly won't be one of the lemmings in the headlong rush. As already mentioned you should leave it until the first or second service pack.

What worries me about the trend of PC software and specs is the electrical power required. 500 - 1000 Watts for what is basically a text editor. Imagine a household with 2 - 3 PC running. Soon it will be more eco-friendly to chop down a tree and use pen and paper.

The main driving force is going to be machines with dual/quad/oct-cores and large amounts of memory. At least the customers of our software are starting to require more than 3GB of ram available in XP. The downside is that not all applications are going to be able to use the dual/quad-cores effectively. You may be able to transcode a video faster as you could split the file into 2:4:8 parts and certain game simulations will run faster.

A lot of the "doing two things at the same time" ads are so much hype, though it may mean that your mp3 player doesn't stutter whilst you're tweaking a 24 megapix photo.