Vista Screenies

MattVortex · **Posted:** October 8th, 2006, 3:09 pm

Well, I downloaded Vista RC2, repartitioned my HD, and installed it to see what its like. IE7 works a lot faster in Vista than in XP, but naturally, i installed Opera.

Here are some screenies:

RSBandB open in Opera: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5691 ... erazz8.jpg

The Vista Media Centre (it can be maximised, but i wont let me take screenies with it maximised) : http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3348 ... treqy6.jpg

Another of the Vista Media Centre: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2758 ... re2ou4.jpg

The Flip3D Interface: http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7690/flip3dlc1.jpg

I may get some more up later.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 8th, 2006, 3:09 pm

Shane · **Posted:** October 8th, 2006, 5:47 pm

Just out of curiosity how are you finding memory usage? I see it's at around 40% in the pictures, how much RAM do you have?

Ranging God · **Posted:** October 8th, 2006, 6:20 pm

Wow, I think it looks sexy

Nate · **Posted:** October 8th, 2006, 7:03 pm

Shane wrote:

Just out of curiosity how are you finding memory usage? I see it's at around 40% in the pictures, how much RAM do you have?

I idle around 500 mbs. When I use windows media player I hit 800 mb, without playing a song.. and if you do, got forbid, 1.2 mbs and I lag like hell. Other than that, vista is one sexy operating system. Windows just needs to optimize it.

Jeff · **Posted:** October 8th, 2006, 7:14 pm

Vista sure looks sleek, but would it be worth the price to upgrade to it? I'm not too sure.

Nate wrote:

Shane wrote:

Just out of curiosity how are you finding memory usage? I see it's at around 40% in the pictures, how much RAM do you have?

I idle around 500 mbs. When I use windows media player I hit 800 mb, without playing a song.. and if you do, got forbid, 1.2 mbs and I lag like hell. Other than that, vista is one sexy operating system. Windows just needs to optimize it.

You mean Microsoft, not Windows

MattVortex · **Posted:** October 9th, 2006, 9:56 am

I have 1280mb of ram. I think the ram usage was somewhere around 520mb - i looked in task manager.

I have a decent amount of ram - it doesnt really bother me if a program uses loads of it. When i had 512 i did care, but i upgraded one of my sticks of 256 to 1024, and it doesnt bother me too much.

I think it would be worth upgrading, although the cheap basic edition doesnt feature the transparent windows, the media centre or Flip3D. I'll probably get Vista Home Premium, which will retail at around $240 USD. The version you see in the screenshots is actually Vista Ultimate (which will be about $400), although to be honest i wont be using any of the vista ultimate features that arent in home premium.

One thing i did notice about Vista is the good integration of IE7 into it. The startup time for IE7 is only a few seconds, rather than the half a minute it takes to open when run in XP. IE7 was clearly designed for Vista.

Here are the specs of my comp, if you're interested:

AMD Sempron 3100+
1280MB DDR-333 SoDIMM RAM (1x 1024, 1x 256)
80GB IDE HD
Integrated ATi Radeon Mobility X700
15.4" 1280x800 screen.

Adbot · **Posted:** October 9th, 2006, 9:56 am

Panda200x · **Posted:** October 9th, 2006, 11:19 am

WOW! If I can get my free Vista disk...
I can support it on a 2GB machine

So here I come with FireFox :twisted:

Jeff · **Posted:** October 9th, 2006, 4:30 pm

MasterOfTheVortex wrote:

I have 1280mb of ram. I think the ram usage was somewhere around 520mb - i looked in task manager.

I have a decent amount of ram - it doesnt really bother me if a program uses loads of it. When i had 512 i did care, but i upgraded one of my sticks of 256 to 1024, and it doesnt bother me too much.

I think it would be worth upgrading, although the cheap basic edition doesnt feature the transparent windows, the media centre or Flip3D. I'll probably get Vista Home Premium, which will retail at around $240 USD. The version you see in the screenshots is actually Vista Ultimate (which will be about $400), although to be honest i wont be using any of the vista ultimate features that arent in home premium.

One thing i did notice about Vista is the good integration of IE7 into it. The startup time for IE7 is only a few seconds, rather than the half a minute it takes to open when run in XP. IE7 was clearly designed for Vista.

Here are the specs of my comp, if you're interested:

AMD Sempron 3100+
1280MB DDR-333 SoDIMM RAM (1x 1024, 1x 256)
80GB IDE HD
Integrated ATi Radeon Mobility X700
15.4" 1280x800 screen.

You see, that's one of the problems. My computer is running on a Pentium 4 1.7Ghz processor. Everything runs perfectly fine. Now if I go out and get Vista, it means I would have to upgrade my CPU.
It might be true that the upgrade should be done sometime in the future anyways, but with the money I will spend on Vista and a new processor, I could get a new Mac Mini, which I would prefer over a PC anytime.
The major big change I see in Vista is really the graphical interface, which I think does not beat OS X.

Speaking of which, I believe they are almost done with Vista and it's scheduled to be manufactured in this three weeks or so. Then by the end of this year, the enterprise editions will be shipped out. And consumers will get their Vista on the shelves around March 2007.

MattVortex · **Posted:** October 10th, 2006, 2:03 am

They're starting production of the Office 2007 stuff in about 3 weeks, i think. Vista Enterprise version will be released late november, and the home editions will be out January 30th 2007.

Andy · **Posted:** October 18th, 2006, 3:21 pm

I got the power:
AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 (dual core)
512+256 Ram (want 2Gb dual chanel)
250 + 100Gb HD's (250's sata II - 100's pata)

But - Like all software:
1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren't really bugs.
4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.
5. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
6. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
7. Users find 137 new bugs.
8. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
9. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
10. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.
11. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
12. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.
13. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free...
[ From = http://www.wilk4.com/humor/humorm325.htm ]

Thus - I got close to installing RC2 (beta 2) I burned a dvd with it on it, but the better half of me told me not 2..
{ Anyone want a x64 or x32 beta disk ?(orginal beta 1) }

Just wait 1 year - when it comes out on computers in your regular joe computer store then you know it's been fully tested, and mostly debuggd

- Vista has been pushed back, again and again, a sign that it's going to be buggy. Now pressure to release is going oush the bug count up.

- Communication is what programing needs today, not the unsocal pen protector nerds (aka Hareld on Red Green show, movie = duct tape forever)

Eric · **Posted:** October 18th, 2006, 3:48 pm

Looks very nice, I think I will get wait until computer companies start installing vista on their systems, and then I will buy one. Thanks for screenies, as I know my family computer couldn't handle vista at all