[Dave C]

Originally Posted by solaris

You can also just choose to switch off all the Vista 'glamour' - Aero, for instance

Isn't that just a chocolate bar

Note: It's REALLY not that hard still getting XP

It is if you are computer illiterate (i.e. me) and you just want to walk into a shop (or Dell) and buy a plug&play computer

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by Dave C

Isn't that just a chocolate bar


It is if you are computer illiterate (i.e. me) and you just want to walk into a shop (or Dell) and buy a plug&play computer

Dave,
You're not alone.

I have XP on my desktop and Vista on my laptop...XP is fine by me,except
for the cache having to be cleaned on a regular basis..Vista is nice but I
think bloated and some old stuff needed driver changes extc..Dave you can't
buy a XP PC now if you wanted..I tried to find one to replace my desktop with XP..no go. I was thrilled when I got 1 gig memory on my XP....
now I'm reading about 28 gig here online for a 64 platform...oh my....

Cheers,

[shadman]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

Dave,
You're not alone.

I have XP on my desktop and Vista on my laptop...XP is fine by me,except
for the cache having to be cleaned on a regular basis..Vista is nice but I
think bloated and some old stuff needed driver changes extc..Dave you can't
buy a XP PC now if you wanted..I tried to find one to replace my desktop with XP..no go. I was thrilled when I got 1 gig memory on my XP....
now I'm reading about 28 gig here online for a 64 platform...oh my....

Cheers,

actually it is up to 128 gig.

cr

[Nightfly]

Originally Posted by shadman

actually it is up to 128 gig.

cr

Yes that's right you wrote that in your post.....
I forgot the 1 in front of the 28...that's a lot of memory.

[shadman]

Originally Posted by Nightfly

Yes that's right you wrote that in your post.....
I forgot the 1 in front of the 28...that's a lot of memory.

yea that's an insane amount of memory.

i'll tell you i'm running vista with 6 gigs and it is really smooth. the system has not crashed on time or locked up. i can multitask like no other. i can dl a bunch of movies or music at one time, watching live tv, surf the net with 20-30 tabs open and lets just say a virus scan all at once with nothing slowing down. it's truly amazing.

my friend has vista with maybe 1 gig and it runs like sh*t. vista is truly a memory hog but for me it's worth it.

cr

[solaris]

Originally Posted by shadman

yea that's an insane amount of memory.

i'll tell you i'm running vista with 6 gigs and it is really smooth. the system has not crashed on time or locked up. i can multitask like no other. i can dl a bunch of movies or music at one time, watching live tv, surf the net with 20-30 tabs open and lets just say a virus scan all at once with nothing slowing down. it's truly amazing.

my friend has vista with maybe 1 gig and it runs like sh*t. vista is truly a memory hog but for me it's worth it.

cr

Just the other day I made an experiment with Firefox: I tried having 150 tabs running simultaneously and my PCs performance wasn't affected one bit - mainly because of the Customize Google add-on, which blocks Google Analytics

[rolly]

I tried having 150 tabs running simultaneously

Out of curiousity,what did your tab bar look like?
Was there any room left on your screen to read the web page?

the system has not crashed on time

You mean it was late for it's crash?
Dang.Windows can't even crash when it's supposed to anymore.

[shadman]

Originally Posted by rolly

Out of curiousity,what did your tab bar look like?
Was there any room left on your screen to read the web page?


You mean it was late for it's crash?
Dang.Windows can't even crash when it's supposed to anymore.

no i meant not even crashed one time!! knock on wood.

cr

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by rolly

Out of curiousity,what did your tab bar look like?
Was there any room left on your screen to read the web page?

It might be a skin that I am using, but when you open a large number of tabs, it turns into a scroller and all tabs are fixed readable length.

Of course I failed miserably after I opened 75 or so But yeah, Customize Google is a great friend of mine. Thank you, solaris

[rolly]

no i meant not even crashed one time!! knock on wood.

I knew what you meant,I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to get in a vista joke.

If the box vista is running in sits on a wooden desk,don't knock on that wooden desk.
That may be all it takes to get that first crash.