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Anyone brave the "crowds" out today and pick up a copy.
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No but if I have money when it comes out I'll probably upgrade to Leopard... I probably should up my RAM to 2 GB first... From what I've seen Vista is a large improvement over XP but that ultimately depends on incompatibility issues and how much more of a memory hog it is.
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no im waiting on my dad to get a free copy
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i don´t plan on buying it ... but if i ever run across a copy, we´ll see if i deem it worthy to install
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well ive been running the beta for a few months now and i love it. it doesn't crash like xp does. just im not sure if i can use the upgrade version since i don't have a valid xp key running...stupid microsoft
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I don't know what you are running with XP but I've never had it crash before...
Desktop, 2 laptops and who knows how many School and work Pc's I've used(most of those using hardcore apps)
Blue screened once only because my desktop CD/RW drivers when I upgraded from ME to XP weren't meant for XP. Simple fix.... But really what are you doing on XP to crash it?
Desktop, 2 laptops and who knows how many School and work Pc's I've used(most of those using hardcore apps)
Blue screened once only because my desktop CD/RW drivers when I upgraded from ME to XP weren't meant for XP. Simple fix.... But really what are you doing on XP to crash it?
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I've played with RC2 in a Virtual Machine a bit (so no aero) and it's interesting. Nothing that'd make me want to upgrade anytime soon. The upgraded security is of minimal value since I have a small Kubuntu box here running a NAT server and seriously have stuff locked down.libertymark wrote: well ive been running the beta for a few months now and i love it. it doesn't crash like xp does. just im not sure if i can use the upgrade version since i don't have a valid xp key running...stupid microsoft
XP never crashes on me. I hung it up while trying to install an OS (I think it was Win 2000) in a virtual machine for testing, but other than that I've had it up this whole semester. That's really not that unusual.
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um i think it was the windows updates that got passed me and installed. mostly it was windows explorer.East Buc & UMR wrote: I don't know what you are running with XP but I've never had it crash before...
Desktop, 2 laptops and who knows how many School and work Pc's I've used(most of those using hardcore apps)
Blue screened once only because my desktop CD/RW drivers when I upgraded from ME to XP weren't meant for XP. Simple fix.... But really what are you doing on XP to crash it?
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I can't tell you how many times control-alt-delete, end non-responding program didn't work or took forever to do. Yes, my laptop is on the very slow end related to XP so that probably had a little bit to do with it.
In the 20 months I have had my iMac there have been maybe 5-10 total times I've gone to force quit a program and it takes longer than one or two seconds. I'd also say about 90%+ of any freezes or unexpected quits are Safari-related. Recently I have had a few more spinning beach ball of death hangs on my Mac but that's mainly when I have a whole bunch of programs open* but they aren't nearly as annoying as they were on Windows. And generally when one program hangs it doesn't affect any of the other programs; they might run just slightly slower while the other program figures out what it's doing but at least my whole computer isn't unusable for that time.
*Safari is a perpetual memory hog.... Right now it has 300 MB of my 1 GB...
In the 20 months I have had my iMac there have been maybe 5-10 total times I've gone to force quit a program and it takes longer than one or two seconds. I'd also say about 90%+ of any freezes or unexpected quits are Safari-related. Recently I have had a few more spinning beach ball of death hangs on my Mac but that's mainly when I have a whole bunch of programs open* but they aren't nearly as annoying as they were on Windows. And generally when one program hangs it doesn't affect any of the other programs; they might run just slightly slower while the other program figures out what it's doing but at least my whole computer isn't unusable for that time.
*Safari is a perpetual memory hog.... Right now it has 300 MB of my 1 GB...
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well ubuntu uses 44% of my cpu at all times
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My cousin bought a new Compaq with vista, it is pretty cool but the looks and the way it runs is much like XP. Not really much difference but I will eventually get one. I want the Bill Gates special edition but it is like 600 dollars or something ridiculous.
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not really its more like 250 but its the upgrade only addition. the full version is 300 and the nonsignature is still 250.chad wrote: I want the Bill Gates special edition but it is like 600 dollars or something ridiculous.
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libertymark Posted on Feb 5 2007, 08:22 PM [not really its more like 250 but its the upgrade only addition. the full version is 300 and the nonsignature is still 250. ]
Your right, the Best Buy add was very misleading, thanks for the heads up.
Your right, the Best Buy add was very misleading, thanks for the heads up.
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do they still have it, i looked earlier and couldn't find it