Have not seen anyone mention this about vista.

[selfhighfi]

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6167115/index.html?tag=topslot;title;2

I no what I am going to do instead of buying more ram insert my flash drive and use the money for a better GPU.

[Ark]

Vista bites my shiney metal ass.

Don't use it.

Please.

[fire-fox]

yer, read my sig. :up:

[McBeck]

yer, read my sig. :up:HEHEHEHE....good one :)

[Lt. Staumeier]

I'm not actually that concerned about the insane system requirements and lack of resource management in Vista. That's a horrible enough, but it's not the big issue. The big issue is all the DRM [Digital Rights (mis)Managment] stuff. Not being able to play DVDs, MP3s or things like that because Vista doesn't "recognize" it being legit, or considers my video-cable unsafe and therefore kills the quality down to google-video style.

Hell, Vista is never coming anywhere near my computer, but then again, I run Linux on my machine so....XP is there only for the real hardcore gaming.

[flintlock]

Vista's ReadyBoost is a nice feature, I just would've preferred that it wasn't capped at 4GBs.

[Wim Libaers]

Using flash as random access memory? That's probably the most likely way to get it to self-destruct by exceeding the maximum number of writes the flash can survive.

[SUBMAN1]

I'm not actually that concerned about the insane system requirements and lack of resource management in Vista. That's a horrible enough, but it's not the big issue. The big issue is all the DRM [Digital Rights (mis)Managment] stuff. Not being able to play DVDs, MP3s or things like that because Vista doesn't "recognize" it being legit, or considers my video-cable unsafe and therefore kills the quality down to google-video style.

Hell, Vista is never coming anywhere near my computer, but then again, I run Linux on my machine so....XP is there only for the real hardcore gaming.

I have to agree with this post. Too much DRM embedded in that thing.

[Skybird]

When they eventually block my XP registration during a future reinstall, I will flee the future in MS style, go back to the past and search and find my old Win98 CD. This digital rights management is madness, a paranoid exaggeration. The same kind of disease is at work concerning HDTV and HD recorders, for example.

I more and more get the impression that all this is hyped and that the security features are not so much about preventing piracy, but to "prevent the customer from not needing to buy more stuff" - and more stuff - and more. Because for private use, despite all opposing claims and statements by record and movie companies: recording publicly broadcasted radio and TV programmes in Germany for pirvate use, family and friends is 100%ly, totally, unconditionally LEGAL. Every sale of movies and music records includes a fee that more than compensates copyright holders for that. It has been like this since the early 60s, I think, and in principle it was not changed. But a lot of questionable legal formulations have been added to hide this fact from the public, make people believe that it is no longer legal, or make the private recording for private use itself impossible by techncial means.

I wonder if this fee that is included in the price of every CD, DVD, VHS - will be skipped and given back to the consumer if recording public broadcasts has been made technially impossible...? :hmm: I probably expect to much fairness here...

Talking on the legal status in Germany here. I do not know about the law-situations in other countries different from Germany.

[waste gate]

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