Is it worth to upgrade to Vista from XP
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It's not an overkill. It is the way I like my computer. I have 2 gigs as well and I want more. And why do you care? My point is, as long as you have good hardware, you can afford good software. End! =0
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Believe It isnt worth.
I bought a new pc
Extreme fast processor
4gb ram
640 WGA etc
Tried Vista Ultimate. Nice graphic but it didnt work well.
Changed to Xp. WOW pc was extremly fast
I was really surprised. All apz runs perfectly.
Xp is the best operating system for now.:biggrin:
I bought a new pc
Extreme fast processor
4gb ram
640 WGA etc
Tried Vista Ultimate. Nice graphic but it didnt work well.
Changed to Xp. WOW pc was extremly fast
I was really surprised. All apz runs perfectly.
Xp is the best operating system for now.:biggrin:
Heres my 2 cents, (haven't read the other posts, 2 lazey) but I would upgrade to vista if you buy a new pc with it preinstalled or if you build a new 1 thats for sure vista compliant. DONT upgrade form your current XP install to vista. Its a pain in the ass and will leave you with a bad experience. There are many features in vista that I wish XP would have... Its definitely worth it, IMO if your buying a new comp...
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Vista is definitely the best if you have big bucks.
I am fine with Xp. It depends on you if you want to sacrifice your money for vista.
Vista does give you some amazing features like dreamscenes, fast speed, security, appearance, directx10 and much more.
It requires at least 1 gb ram, But still 1 gb ram is like 128 mb on windows xp.
If you want vista to work like you worked in xp....you will have to have 1gb + RAM.
Many hardware stuff don't work with vista I mean not compatible enough.
But on the other hand games that are for vista are extremely awesome and do not run on Xp.
I'ts totally on you how you see the features.
I and my friends still use Xp, but surely once i have the money to spend i'll buy vista .
I am fine with Xp. It depends on you if you want to sacrifice your money for vista.
Vista does give you some amazing features like dreamscenes, fast speed, security, appearance, directx10 and much more.
It requires at least 1 gb ram, But still 1 gb ram is like 128 mb on windows xp.
If you want vista to work like you worked in xp....you will have to have 1gb + RAM.
Many hardware stuff don't work with vista I mean not compatible enough.
But on the other hand games that are for vista are extremely awesome and do not run on Xp.
I'ts totally on you how you see the features.
I and my friends still use Xp, but surely once i have the money to spend i'll buy vista .
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I have an 2 year old (fast) XP machine (mainly for serving files), and a new, moderate-spec laptop (for on the go), and a quite new Vista Desktop (for design and such).
I can honestly say, for now, Vista is not worth the hype nor the upgrade; its just a slower version of XP (yeah, eye-candy, but you can do that with apps anyway), with a few features, that you probably wont actually ever use.
The main problem is Aero and transparency, I think, once you disable that, Vista runs at reasonable speed. Wait until SP1, which should clear up some preformance issues.
I must say, some of the 'viewpoints' are terrably inaccurate, like those who said you need 4gb of ram to run Vista - that is utter bull. I can run Vista easily on 2gb (turning off an extra 2gb) of ram on my desktop, but it is very CPU intensive.
That being said, 4gb is excessive.
I can honestly say, for now, Vista is not worth the hype nor the upgrade; its just a slower version of XP (yeah, eye-candy, but you can do that with apps anyway), with a few features, that you probably wont actually ever use.
The main problem is Aero and transparency, I think, once you disable that, Vista runs at reasonable speed. Wait until SP1, which should clear up some preformance issues.
I must say, some of the 'viewpoints' are terrably inaccurate, like those who said you need 4gb of ram to run Vista - that is utter bull. I can run Vista easily on 2gb (turning off an extra 2gb) of ram on my desktop, but it is very CPU intensive.
That being said, 4gb is excessive.
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If you have an old comp, no. If you have a new, Wait some months to vista getting bug-free. I've heard maximum RAM in xp is 4 gb but vista supports up to 8 gb RAM.
I'd say Vista is worth it as they will eventually have "Vista only" games, apps and everything else (think there's already a few out there). Asides from that, Vista can be quite annoying until you tell it to run everything as an admin and set key programs you use to run under XP. If your an online gamer... the DX10 is well worth it, and if you want out the butt memory, the 64 bit is awesome.
Alright, Vista isn't that great... For Windows XP users google Vista Transformation Pack, It has prefectching, the awesome skins... It transforms virtually everything... and best of all, it's free. It doesn't slow your computer down at all, I have a P4 1.8ghz with 640MB Ram, definatly not enough to run vista. I'd stick with XP until microsoft turns off activation (which I heard they were doing soon)/
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All 32-bit operating systems (including 32-bit Vista) support only 4GB RAM, and may not be able to access it all. 64-bit OS's (including 64-bit XP Pro and Vista) support more RAM than 32-bit - 16 exabytes to be exact (although the OS may place a limitation on memory).
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The upgrade to Vista is definatly not worth it. I have a few articles you might be interested in:
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the worth of it depends on its usage
if we think of its looks and graphics then it is worth but on the other side it takes many resources and requires lot of a ram so it requires a lot of upgrade for older pcs like mine but even if we see in news letters of zdnet some flaws are present in vista that are absent in xp
if we think of its looks and graphics then it is worth but on the other side it takes many resources and requires lot of a ram so it requires a lot of upgrade for older pcs like mine but even if we see in news letters of zdnet some flaws are present in vista that are absent in xp
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usually the golden rule of windowsOS upgrades is: wait for a service pack release, the upgrade.
Also, Vista Ultimate alone chews up almost a GIG of ram just for the OS. I would only upgrade if you have a C2D processor or something equivilant and 3-4 gigs of memory with either a NVIDIA 7950GT or an 8 series card.
Also, Vista Ultimate alone chews up almost a GIG of ram just for the OS. I would only upgrade if you have a C2D processor or something equivilant and 3-4 gigs of memory with either a NVIDIA 7950GT or an 8 series card.
I am going to have to say it most likely isn't worth it to upgrade to vista.
XP is still supported, and 99% of applications will work in XP for some time now, as XP is a lot more used than vista, and will probably be for a while.
There are a number of problems with upgrading a computer to vista.
One of the largest of these problems is driver support. If you have older hardware, it seems as if there are a lot of problems getting drivers to support vista.
Then another issue is that vista is very resource hungry compared to xp. If you upgrade to vista, you will probably feel like the computer is very laggy and slow. And that would pretty much make the computer seem like it isn't very useful. Who wants to wait 10 minutes for the computer to start, and several minutes for programs to open? It seems to me that would pretty much reduce the desirability to upgrade to vista. Not to mention that unless you have somewhat decent hardware, the aero interface, so if that is what you are wanting...an upgrade probably won't provide that.
In my opinion, vista honestly doesn't offer all that much over XP (although it is a lot more stable, and seems to do better at not breaking), but I have a feeling that on an older computer that wouldn't be the case.
XP is still supported, and 99% of applications will work in XP for some time now, as XP is a lot more used than vista, and will probably be for a while.
There are a number of problems with upgrading a computer to vista.
One of the largest of these problems is driver support. If you have older hardware, it seems as if there are a lot of problems getting drivers to support vista.
Then another issue is that vista is very resource hungry compared to xp. If you upgrade to vista, you will probably feel like the computer is very laggy and slow. And that would pretty much make the computer seem like it isn't very useful. Who wants to wait 10 minutes for the computer to start, and several minutes for programs to open? It seems to me that would pretty much reduce the desirability to upgrade to vista. Not to mention that unless you have somewhat decent hardware, the aero interface, so if that is what you are wanting...an upgrade probably won't provide that.
In my opinion, vista honestly doesn't offer all that much over XP (although it is a lot more stable, and seems to do better at not breaking), but I have a feeling that on an older computer that wouldn't be the case.
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XP is the way to go fer awhile. Vista will force it out sooner or later due to the proper 64 bit version (yes i know theres XP64), and I'll learn a new set of registry hacks to streamline it to the XP days. Vista if anything solidified my need to upgrade... to linux (or osx) as my primary os instead of the secondary one. More killer features in less footprint. Windows life blood (backwards compatibility and market share) will be the death of it.
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before upgrading be sure to check out...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/winsat.mspx
to run all the features of vista, your computer needs to have a rating of 3 or better and most new systems out of the box are still shy of this. the installer will only activate minimum features based on your computer's rating.
funny thing is that when xp came out, new computers with 2k preinstalled were fazed out in six months. here we are a year later and you can still buy new with xp. also, there's speculation that vienna, the next windows os may be ready for distribution in 2009. it may be possible to skip vista altogether and go from xp to the vienna os. also, i still haven't heard anything more about the new file system, wfs, that gates was so excited about a couple years back. it was supposed to come out with vista but didn't. as far as i know it is still slated to come out with a future service pack, but will obviously require some sort of drive conversion tool unless they ship an install cd to all current customers.
good luck. i still have 2k installed on my pc at home.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/winsat.mspx
to run all the features of vista, your computer needs to have a rating of 3 or better and most new systems out of the box are still shy of this. the installer will only activate minimum features based on your computer's rating.
funny thing is that when xp came out, new computers with 2k preinstalled were fazed out in six months. here we are a year later and you can still buy new with xp. also, there's speculation that vienna, the next windows os may be ready for distribution in 2009. it may be possible to skip vista altogether and go from xp to the vienna os. also, i still haven't heard anything more about the new file system, wfs, that gates was so excited about a couple years back. it was supposed to come out with vista but didn't. as far as i know it is still slated to come out with a future service pack, but will obviously require some sort of drive conversion tool unless they ship an install cd to all current customers.
good luck. i still have 2k installed on my pc at home.