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Eisboch wrote:

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Mac desktop. Supposedly there are new models coming out sometime soon,
but nothing rumored about the still vaporware models seemed that
significant to me, although they will be to others, I suspect, who are
more into computer games and heavy duty graphics and math processing.

Also snagged a beta of Windows 7, which just about anyone can do via
Microsoft's open beta for at least the short term, and burned it onto
a DVD. It'll be the "alternatve" OS on the new Mac. I run Vista as the
alternative on my Macbook Pro, works fine.

And my old desktop machine is now updated and "ready" to be
"server-ized."


Is Windows 7 designed to be an upgrade from Vista, or is it strictly a
completely new OS install?

Eisboch


Dunno. Haven't even looked at the MS web page on it yet. My guess is
that it'll upgrade a VISTA or it'll do a fresh install.


It's funny. Due to all the horror stories I had heard about Vista, I was
very hesitant to go with it on this new computer. I tried to pay
attention to recommendations regarding RAM, etc. and made sure it had 4GB
and was the 64 bit version.

So far, I haven't had a single serious hiccup. In fact, only once did a
program (I think it was InfanView) temporarily "lock up" and deliver a
"program is not responding" message, but as I was reading it, it
automatically cleared itself and continued running. That's the only
time I've seen any sort of glitch and it went away by itself.

Eisboch


I've never had any serious VISTA problems, and I was there at the
beginning.

Actually, for light use, Vista is OK. Have it on one of my PCs.

Most of the bad press on Vista relates to performance. In motor terms Vista
us a 4 cyl that gets 2 mpg. You can put a lot of CPU/system to it and it
performs like a slug. While if you are just doing surfing or email, you
would never know the difference, try a large file transfer disk to disk or
network to/from a disk and compare to a Mac, Linux or even XP. You will
find Vista is slow like pig.