[samwoo2go]

Win7=Win X 7

[Gearcraft]

Originally Posted by TK-421

Vista = FAIL

ive had it for 3 years using CAD programs, rendering programs, CS3, and a few games in between school work with no serious problems. it always recovered whenever something had gotten messed up. i now have win7 and never had a problem. i only turn it off when i drive from home to school and back. my computer boots up in about 30 sec and gets my work done.

and no im not a fanboy. if somebody gives me a macbook for free ill take it and use it too. but my computer gets my work done and to keep to the topic... it boots fast.

[JayKay335i]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

i must call you out jaykay, you said i looked like a douche getting a bimmer shirt, and you are putting your mac on a table for chicks

Hahaa. Well if you have it, use it. School made us all buy one so we can run the patient record software that they use in the on campus clinic and labs. We had to pay $1500 and had the choice between some Dell POS that wasn't even worth $1500 retail, a Sony Vio (or whatever the f they are), and a Macbook pro. The only one that came close and well exceeded what I was paying price wise was the Mac. You bet I got it.

I got a VGA->HDMI cable and have it plugged into my TV in the living room with the new Hulu app installed that works with the computers remote.

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by JayKay335i

Hahaa. Well if you have it, use it. School made us all buy one so we can run the patient record software that they use in the on campus clinic and labs. We had to pay $1500 and had the choice between some Dell POS that wasn't even worth $1500 retail, a Sony Vio (or whatever the f they are), and a Macbook pro. The only one that came close and well exceeded what I was paying price wise was the Mac. You bet I got it.

I got a VGA->HDMI cable and have it plugged into my TV in the living room with the new Hulu app installed that works with the computers remote.

i want a mac, but i dont have the $ for it yet, i spent it on my crib, car, and mary j

[solefald]

this message was written on a Mac mini

[TK-421]

Originally Posted by Gearcraft

ive had it for 3 years using CAD programs, rendering programs, CS3, and a few games in between school work with no serious problems. it always recovered whenever something had gotten messed up. i now have win7 and never had a problem. i only turn it off when i drive from home to school and back. my computer boots up in about 30 sec and gets my work done.

and no im not a fanboy. if somebody gives me a macbook for free ill take it and use it too. but my computer gets my work done and to keep to the topic... it boots fast.

My situation has been the total opposite. I've gone through 4 Vista powered laptops and they've all crapped out within 8 months and had to be replaced for one reason or another (because I'm not about to pay more than the thing's worth to fix it) and my data totally LOST. I've given Windows 7 a try and it seems to be much better, but I won't pick it up until my Mac, which has been going strong for a few years, meets its end.

[Gearcraft]

Originally Posted by TK-421

My situation has been the total opposite. I've gone through 4 Vista powered laptops and they've all crapped out within 8 months and had to be replaced for one reason or another (because I'm not about to pay more than the thing's worth to fix it) and my data totally LOST. I've given Windows 7 a try and it seems to be much better, but I won't pick it up until my Mac, which has been going strong for a few years, meets its end.

wow. thats a fail then for you.

[ibeclueless]

that is way too slow for startup

[TK-421]

Originally Posted by Gearcraft

wow. thats a fail then for you.

mhmm. thing is, i never had problems with xp. matter of fact i had only 1 laptop the entire time xp was on the market, so vista's fails were a pretty big surprise to me

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by TK-421

mhmm. thing is, i never had problems with xp. matter of fact i had only 1 laptop the entire time xp was on the market, so vista's fails were a pretty big surprise to me

ive had vista 64 bit and ive had zero problems, run a malwarebytes scan once a month and no problems other than the occasional freeze do to to many processes running, ctrl-alt-del and fixed...did you download any of the service packs?

[TK-421]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

ive had vista 64 bit and ive had zero problems, run a malwarebytes scan once a month and no problems other than the occasional freeze do to to many processes running, ctrl-alt-del and fixed...did you download any of the service packs?

yeah, i would update whenever it told me to and once in a while would manually check to see if there were any updates still left to perform. i didn't download filesharing programs like limewire or bittorrent and had mcafee on each computer

[CollinsE90]

Originally Posted by TK-421

yeah, i would update whenever it told me to and once in a while would manually check to see if there were any updates still left to perform. i didn't download filesharing programs like limewire or bittorrent and had mcafee on each computer

thats the problem, kaspersky FTW, right now i have zero protection and i use bittorrent religously and no problems, malwarebytes and superantispyware

[335e92tx]

Re: get a mac.

Yeah, and get an iPhone while your at it.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5...er&tag=nl.e589
Pwn2Own 2010: iPhone hacked, SMS database hijacked

[Gearcraft]

Originally Posted by CollinsE90

thats the problem, kaspersky FTW, right now i have zero protection and i use bittorrent religously and no problems, malwarebytes and superantispyware

+1 could be the kaspersky thats been helping my computer. i also used cccleaner and clean up my registry. kaspersky is cheap on ebay. maybe 10 bucks for each license. sometimes you can even get a 3 license for cheap. cccleaner is free. vista security i think is not enough.