Comments on: Welcome to Vista. Now buy new hardware. http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:28:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Jonadab http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-724 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:40:01 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-724 Vista is pretty bleeding edge at this point. Well, okay, it's not Gentoo with the riskiest use flags turned on, but it's pretty hot off the presses for a commercial OS. When you move to something that new, you expect stuff to break. If you aren't prepared to deal with that, don't upgrade until the service packs start coming out. Vista is pretty bleeding edge at this point. Well, okay, it’s not Gentoo with the riskiest use flags turned on, but it’s pretty hot off the presses for a commercial OS. When you move to something that new, you expect stuff to break. If you aren’t prepared to deal with that, don’t upgrade until the service packs start coming out.

]]> by: RichVR http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-709 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:04:57 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-709 It also does not work unless you have XP SP2 installed. Which I don't, and don't intend to. It also does not work unless you have XP SP2 installed. Which I don’t, and don’t intend to.

]]> by: Itsacon http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-703 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:52:45 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-703 The upgrade advisor may be useful if you're running XP. If you're running anything older, you're already out. Seems that if you're like me, and stuck with Win2k since XP didn't have any features you felt compensated for the increased overhead, you'll just have to jump in the deep end if you want to try Vista. The upgrade advisor may be useful if you’re running XP. If you’re running anything older, you’re already out.
Seems that if you’re like me, and stuck with Win2k since XP didn’t have any features you felt compensated for the increased overhead, you’ll just have to jump in the deep end if you want to try Vista.

]]> by: KevinL http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-699 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:41:57 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/02/08/welcome-to-vista-now-buy-new-hardware/#comment-699 For what it's worth, Creative have released a bit of a workaround for the fancy-pants X-Fi cards. It's a bit of software (http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx) that installs a custom dsound.dll and an ini file that re-routes DirectSound calls to OpenAL. Reminds me a bit of the 3dfx wrappers that were around a few years ago. Me? I'm sticking with XP. For what it’s worth, Creative have released a bit of a workaround for the fancy-pants X-Fi cards. It’s a bit of software (http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx) that installs a custom dsound.dll and an ini file that re-routes DirectSound calls to OpenAL. Reminds me a bit of the 3dfx wrappers that were around a few years ago.

Me? I’m sticking with XP.

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