Re: Upgrade Help, Please


"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:9q95k3tgdskh6vbq2dkdpbv6qiusv4hu3t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:50:28 -0000, "Nick Le Lievre"
<nicklelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My system is overkill for my needs, but I did want to run Vista so having a
system as powerfull as mine is great for Vista. You know I`ve never played a
game on my system yet despite having an 8800GTS.

Tippunmon, this is the point I was trying to make. Nick here has spent
about 4-500quid too much on a system due to following the Vista
scores. He's got a fine gamer's machine... for writing email on and
browsing the web. The only software that needs that power is the OS,
which is frankly ridiculous.

Both my other OSes in the house recently got *faster* on the same
hardware with a new version... Ubuntu 7.10 and OSX 10.5. Oddly enough,
I stayed with XP and don't run any Vista machines.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
Okay, it works now. Or at least it malfunctions in all the expected ways.
-- Mark Edwards, asr


Yes I quite see your point. I beta tested Vista and loved the effects and speed so much, but when I bought the OEM software proper it seemed to be very much more sluggish (on the same kit). Don't know whether some major tinkering went on between the last beta and the release code? XP is quite fast, but frankly not that much different in performance from Vista (on the same kit). I still run XP Pro on my laptop, so am used to switching between the two. I got quite excited about Linux, but find it completely non user-friendly and too archaic in use. The only version I ever got to install off the bat and run sweetly was roundabout Mandrake 8 version I think it was. After that none of the distros I have used (Redhat, Linspire, Mandrake, Sayaban or Suse) and I mean none of them will load and run efficiently on the partition I want them to. This is why I have stuck with Windows. I think it is because I want the OS to boot and load off the RAID 0 array and for some unknown reason Linux can't cope with this. Keep getting GRUB errors and the softare will not load. When I did get Linux to run yoinks ago I tried to load Firefox instead of the awful browser that came with it (Konqueror??) but after 25 minutes of trying to figure out HOW to load it I gave up and re-installed Windows. What chance has the average user got to load up software? There are no exe files or clear installation instructions with Linux, just some instructions about rpm files or something. Loading Firefox on Windows takes about ten seconds, click the box and off it goes. This is why Linux is only slowly catching on with the non-technically qualified user. The other issue of course is how the Linux installation railroads your system, dictating how your boot partition must be configured into three separate partitions (what's that all about?) and giving the user no choice whatsover about the configuration, what partitions to use or anything.

Anyway, rant over. I have ordered a 4200+ DC processor (checked carefully - the board will take it) and look forward to re-checking my scores, but more importantly live in hope the pc will once more be incisive and quick (fast is not required, quick will do) in its' response times.

All the best


David Richardson (Tippunmon - i.e. man from Tipton, Black Country you see)

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