About three months ago, I bought a Dell Precision laptop. It has two processors so I can run some special applications with some speed. But I told Dell I would only order the computer if it was shipped with Windows XP, not Vista. I had read so many negative reviews of Vista that I decided to stay away. Now this:

and this:

So what operating system do you use? Any Vista users? Is your PC now slower as claimed in the negative reviews?

I won't use Vista, one reason is most games are not tested to work on it and on the boards I go to all I read are horror stories of how NEW games will not run properly on Vista without major work by the owner. In some cases not at all.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Shogun your mail is full I can't send my reply.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Ok For Online games, especially well known heavily successful ones , they all maintain online forums. They will have a technical support section and may have a technical support by gamers section also.

This will include a FAQ. Those FAQs are almost always up to date on current and old problems. But if you can not find the answer there they usually maintain a way to either email, online chat or call ( or all 3) the support section.

A BIG fixer for freezes and blackouts are drivers. Not just video drivers but Audio as well and occasional other support items. Usually new drivers fix problems though occasionally a known problem will occur with a new driver and the FAQ will tell you to load a specific older driver.

Usually these Online games also have links to needed drivers for the major companies.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

The University of California refuses to introduce Vista on its networks. It only grudgingly supports Vista for students who have brought it with them to school.

But Vista has been out for more than one year and even has a massive Service Pack recently released. Is it possible the Vista will bomb completely and that MS will have to introduce Windows 7 early to stop the market share bleeding to other operating systems? If so, Vista will have been a huge financial blunder costing MS we can only guess how much.

I'm now an Apple affaciando.

It corrects problems on it's own, truly intuitive. I'll never return to pc's, which is what I learned computer jargon on.

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Again, Apple has almost no games. No reason to own it at all.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

I don't do games.

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"We are fighting today for our life, for our liberty, for our all, we cannot go on being led as we are. Somehow or other, we must get into the Government men who can match our enemies in fighting spirit, in daring, in resolution and in thirst for victory."~Leo Amery 1940, while staring at Chamberlain

I still use WinXP.

Why f*ck with what works?

Linux - I finally settled on Ubuntu (running Gutsy Gibbon) after trying just about every Linux distro in existence at one time. It does make you work but at least you get full control over the OS. Support is very good, all you need to sort a problem out is Google.

OS Leopard.

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Me too. A friend of mine is a networker, and for a decade he kept bugging me to get a Mac. I finally got sick and tired of my PC crashing, freezing, getting infected, and so on, that I walked into a store and bought a Mac on the spot.

Its not as perfect as some Appleheads would have you believe, but it certainly is easier and more stable than Windows. It is no where near as good for spreadsheets, so I wouldn't run a business on a Mac, and I don't play games, but otherwise, I find it way better than Windows.

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The empiricist will change his opinion in light of contrary evidence. The ideologue will retain his opinion despite contrary evidence.

ok. I emptied some space.

I run xp. I have to admit a fondness for poking mac addicts with a stick. have been building cpus since my first amd k5 chip in the days when playing a single mp3 could crash your non-pentium system. I think I still have a few simms collecting dust somewhere. I remember spending money on both an AOL account minutes AND a local access number (long distance) just to play the old gold box version of Neverwinter Nights. I beat The 7th Guest in high school and once formatted a gf's PARENT's computer while installing win95 because I didn't realize 16 mb of ram was simply not enough. I also copied the config.sys and autoexec.bat thinking that I didn't need to copy actual drivers. I was totally wrong. ahhh.. the memories.

There's a lot of noise in the ether that Vista cannot be salvaged and that it will never be adopted to anywhere near the extent of other MS operating systems. What were they thinking introducing a OS with a 4GB Ram "sweet spot" and breaks so many older programs and XP drivers? Doing so excluded 95 percent of all PCs.

I have not spent any time with a computer game since Quake 2 days, then networked at the UCLA dorms. We also played a lot of Q2 on an outside server from CIT. Q2 is a twitchy shooter and the characters look like punk soldiers. But we often used other character "skins" and would run around the game as Kenny from South Park, or even cows with rocket launchers. In our UCLA v CIT games it was fun to show up in the CIT server with 10 cows and read their whining laments scroll on the screen. Kid stuff, but fun.

dude... I still miss playing q2 over the t4 lines on campus. I hate to brag, but I used to be accused of being a bot when i'd go on a railgun rampage. Of all the games I really miss, Q2 is it. Mechwarrior 2 was fun to play against the computer science geeks.... bought Diablo the day it came out. the intro to Halflife (which, I thought, had a badass deathmatch mode but no one ever wanted to play)..


*sigh*


thooooose werrrree the dayyyyyyys..