RobertJan 30th, 2007 - 23:47:50

I purchased windows vista home premium today loaded it . It loaded no problem found all the drivers except for lexmark printer so tried hp printer found drivers no problems. My bad for ever buying A lexmark they have been promising vista drivers since december at their website then they changed it to january , 2 more days it will be feb., still no drivers so when my hp printer bites the dust i'll replace it with an hp or cannon but never a lexmark again.

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GlenJan 31st, 2007 - 01:50:50

Sorry but, i'm waiting AT LEAST until the first service pack before i buy it, and i'm also waiting on the driver support especially the NVIDIA drivers which still don't have full functionality under Vista x64.

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mcWookieJan 31st, 2007 - 02:16:32

Good point, wait before you upgrade to Vista, for a good while. The way I figure, even with XP running for around 6 years, MS couldn't get the ducks in a row on existing problems. What makes you think they are going to sell a new bloated OS without (and some) problems? Same scenario as when XP launched, it is going to take a good while for Vista to become half ass stable And while you are tweaking, trying to get drivers to work, running your AV, dealing with security, spending a day trying to figure out why your XP systems are having trouble connecting on a Vista Network, -- those on XP (and those especially running OS/X will actually be doing the work that earns a paycheck).

If you want to play games...buy a game console.

If you want to continually deal with viruses, driver issues, dll errors, and a world of crap software where you constantly have to tweak, diagnose problems, and spending time tinkering rather than actually doing productive work for at your job or for your company...buy Vista.

If you want to turn your computer on and go straight to work on your projects...buy a Mac.

In the mean time, http://www.apple.com/switch/

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mcwookie sucksJan 31st, 2007 - 02:51:47

mcwookie is an idiot. why would you buy a console for games, if your a real gamer? my pc now is right there with the ps3, and when i install direct X10, the ps3 is going to look like the N64 next to it. just because he cant afford a high end pc, or to upgrade every so often means he should go buy a console. he can sit on his Mac while he plays it.

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AudacitorJan 31st, 2007 - 03:09:42

Mcwookie is right. Vista will be nothing but trouble, and once people find its weakpoints, there'll be just as many viruses to deal with as there are in XP.

If you are the serious gamer, naturally you'd buy as many consoles/games as you can, and definitely won't switch to Vista.

And if you want to be productive and have fun at the same time, get a Mac.

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mcWookieJan 31st, 2007 - 03:53:45

To the author of the 'mcWookie Sucks' comment:

I was making my comments regarding Vista from a business standpoint. There are actually people in this world that use computers to be productive. Not everyone spends 20 hours a day playing World of Warcraft and masturbates to how awesome their computer is. Never speak again.

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StuvikJan 31st, 2007 - 03:54:22

It seems game programming in Vista is going to be very different. A lot of control has to be handed over to the OS than before which understandably is unsettling.
Windows security is something everyone has demanded and these issues are part of the side effects.

Vista, like XP, isn't the end-all and be-all of OSes no matter what marketing tells you :) It's a 'natural evolution' for Microsoft and the fanfare and put-downs we see just after release is the fact that, once again, the learning curve has started once again on how to use this new OS. It's always frustrating being taken out of our zone of comfort.

So will most Windows users buy Vista? You bet they will. My advice on this, like many others, is to wait a little more. Research like mad. Don't rely on a single viewpoint to make your decision.
Vista wont be touching my existing PC for a while. I intend on saving for a completely new system to run Vista on...by the time I do save up enough, I'm guessing a lot of the bugs found by early Vista adopters will be ironed out be with or without a service pack.

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FreddyJan 31st, 2007 - 06:49:21

Hmm... My dad and his fellow audio engineering students would love to know where you get these mythical problemless Macs.

(I would too, so I don't have to listen to him complain all of the time)

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dookieJan 31st, 2007 - 08:09:29

At one of my clients, over half the users use Macs. I find it funny how a good portion of them also install XP on their

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RobertJan 31st, 2007 - 09:35:43

Some Of you people did not hear me I said vista downloaded smoothly its not microsoft's fault that some these other companys are dragging their feet when it come to drivers they have had plenty of time HP had the needed drivers . I loved XP and I'm Really like vista and I like challenges I don't mind tinkering around.
I have no fears clone your operating system back it up . antyhing goes wrong your up and running again in 10 minutes.As for mac people who like to trash microsoft you should stick to your apples your not intelligent enough to use windows.

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