Windows Vista

Mh, i dont think i’ll get it, at least not at this point. All i heard was negative, regarding the countless bugs and shit.

Well I’ve got Vista premium for my vaio laptop and Ultimate for my workstation. I’ve not yet installed either of them (waiting for some new hard drives to come through to back up all my laptop and workstation) but I know All Propellerheads software works with the final release of Vista! Which is great for me since I use Reason3, Rebirth & Recycle! I’ve also just read on the Steinberg site that Cubase 4.1 has a Vista installer too! Only Cubase 4.1 though, not 4.0. The upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 is free! I’ve just upgraded my SX1 to Cubase 4.1 for £150.
There’s no point holding back, one day we’ll all have no choice but to run Vista, might as well start the move over now!

Well I’m expecting little bugs here and there. Like any major software release its bound to have creases that need to be ironed out. But microsoft will find the bugs and get em sorted quicker if we’re all using it and pointing these issues out to them. I hope its got an error report dialog like XP. At the end of the day, its a usefull windows dialog box for once!

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There’s no point holding back, one day we’ll all have no choice but to run Vista[/quote:242t3wb6]

i bloody well hope not

I’m running vista premium on my laptop which is a sony vaio with a 1.66ghz dual core p4 & 1gig ram. I’m running reason at the moment and have no complaints yet on speed or reliability. I’ll be installing cubase 4 and rebirth soon. I’ll let you all know if I find any proper bugs!

You have to remember though that all these comments and arguments over vista happened over xp when that came out and now look, everyone’s on xp, we wouldn’t use anything different (except for mac of course if your a mac user)! But saying that, I do agree with devilzone that you generally have to give an OS a year before all the creases have been ironed out and developers have updated all their software and components to run smoothly with vista. Plus in a year’s time 1gig ram will be average and most users will probably have 2gig or more unlike now where the average system ram’s probably about 512mb – 1gig! Same goes for all other hardware like cpu’s especially!

Yeah, I’m getting mine for the rebate as well. My friend has Vista though and doesn’t seem to be having any problems with it.
The interface looks way coolers and it’s way easier to navigate.

I imagine it sucks a lot of RAM and CPU power though…

Firefox 2.0.2 is out ! for Vista

i think ill wait till they iron out the bugs before i upgrade.

Vista is full of locks i hate it

Since only I use my PC I’ve disabled the UAC. It makes using Vista less annoying at times like when you get the "Allow this program to run" everytime you start a program up even if you’ve set it to run with admin rights. As long as your running a decent firewall and virus software then I don’t think UAC is a major security requirement unlass you let others use your pc/laptop!

The main thing that impressed me about Vista is the networking side of the OS. The lag has gone!! In xp I would sometimes sit for a couple of minutes while it accessed another pc on my home network but with Vista its like your accessing files on the same computer your using, there’s just no lag! Which is great for me as I work from both pc and laptop and need to keep both in sync, sample libraries etc!

I think Vista ist worst than Xp, because you must have all programs legal.

Soruk wrote:

Mentioning (or even hinting at) warez here is likely to be frowned upon by the mods.

Yeah, we do.

Don’t mean we aren’t human though. We just want the overall picture (to those that may hold a sword over our heads) to look positive for all of the members here, and enable the use of the ‘treats’ to widen everybody’s perspective of the use of vocals.

Soruk wrote:

if I buy the computer with my money I expect to be able to make it do what I want it to do

Couldn’t agree more. I want to tailor my platform, of choice, to MY requirements. For me, XP is still far better. I can tweak it, and do little things that I have begun to get an hold on. Just like the new ‘Cubase4 is brilliant’ argument, Cubase4 doesn’t take DX plugins. So, I (and the place I work) won’t switch to Cubase4 until it is right.

And… I was looking at Laptop’s, and they’re all Vista. But it’s marketing.

Just my thoughts.

Thanks for that, I’ll look into them, then decide over a cup of whiskey.