OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[-Deborah-]

Man, I freakin' hate Vista. I don't have it on any of my computers, but I went up to my sisters house the other day and was showing her how to create an audio CD from mp3 files.

I didn't download and install any of my favorite tools, just figured I'd use the media player to do it. While media player isn't my chosen tool to burn CDs with on XP, I can work with it.

In Vista, the tools are so dumbed-down that they're impossible to use. It makes so many assumptions about what you want to do, and does what it's doing without telling you, that it's nearly impossible to tell what it's up to.

I wasn't aware that media player was so different in XP than it is in Vista.

I'm using Vista x64 on my new PC and am happy with it. I also installed Windows 7 on another partition to try it out.

[Drew]

What's a CD?

lol

[bimmer84]

This looks interesting...I am told it will launch may 19

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...r-1678109.html

Very cool. Thanks Bill.

[Coop]

ULF - as you may have seen....M$ can't seem to get 7 down the pipe fast enough

[Drew]

What is 7's big deal? Isn't Vista less than 3 years old?

[Coop]

Yes, and very reminiscent of "Me" - half baked and rushed to market, with no reason to upgrade....

[froot loops]

Was Vista really rushed to market? It was being tested as Longhorn forever, it did have a need for the 64 bit OS.

[-Deborah-]

Yes, and very reminiscent of "Me" - half baked and rushed to market, with no reason to upgrade....

Your opinion. I upgraded to Vista the first week it was available and haven't looked back. Where I used to have to reformat my XP machine every few months, I *never* had to with Vista.

Of course, it's different in a corporate setting. I can't give an opinion there.

[Coop]

Yes, it is my opinion....

I have had little or no problems with XP - why did you have to keep reformatting?

[bimmer84]

I use Vista Ultimate 64 in my Quad system with a SSD. Fast. No issues.

[-Deborah-]

What's SSD, Bim?

I went from a Pentium 4 3.8 ghz to a Core i7-920 2.66 ghz. Processing video used to be a tedious nightmare but this thing barely blinks while processing video now...

[-Deborah-]

So I gather that means solid state drive, something I haven't really looked in to. I'll have to read up on that.

[Carolina Cat]

I replaced Vista with Windows 7 RC on my laptop. Performance wise, it is light years better than Vista. My laptop has never ran faster.

[-Deborah-]

Yeah I noticed a memory leak I have in Vista isn't present in 7, although I blame an audio driver issue for it and not the OS.

7 seems pretty solid.

[bimmer84]

What's SSD, Bim?

I went from a Pentium 4 3.8 ghz to a Core i7-920 2.66 ghz. Processing video used to be a tedious nightmare but this thing barely blinks while processing video now...

So I gather that means solid state drive, something I haven't really looked in to. I'll have to read up on that.

Yes, it's a solid state drive. No moving parts. I set it up as my C drive, for boot speed and for frequently used programs, and then use a normal 750G 7200RPM for large volume storage. I don't know that I would buy the SSD again. It doesn't seem all that different than the 750G. Newegg had a special deal on one and I jumped at it.