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So where did your Mac go???????
so i'm trying to fix this old laptop of mine. it's an HP dv2125nr. the control panel just won't open, the personalize button too. this is ty as . Never would've got this on my mac. vista can go itself and die.
So where did your Mac go???????
Well, I'm typing on it right now. My Vista box is right beside it.
So wtf did you buy a Vista, if you have the all powerful Mac? And are you sure your hall closet has enough juice to run the both of them????
I bought to run some windows-only apps. :-) No, they're both running on batteries! hahaha
I got a dv9830
running vista..
but since it has 4 gig ram im not having trouble at all with it.. I guess time will tell
Vista is a POS... I work in I/T so Im pretty educated with it.
First of all MS went in the right direction but they still screwed up. With Vista they tried to do what Linux has been doing for years.... Actively use RAM thats not being used. The problem is that Vista uses up ALL the RAM you have and distributes as it see's necessary. Linux does this way better... Wondows tries to "predict" wtf you are doing instead of just giving it to you.
I dont want to get too much into it but if you are in anyway familiar with computers... Vista= Windos ME....
Wait for the next Windows.
I have 4 gigs of RAM... Vista never slows down... handles everything like a beast.
Get Windows XP and install it instead (finding all the right drivers for that particluar laptop might be a pain in the ass though). I don't know how large your Macbook HD is, but you could just block out a par ion for Windows on it as well (Boot Camp comes with all the drivers for running windows on you Macbook)
like i said me too.. it runs smooth
Best thing--
Load up XP
Buy software named "Fusion"
It allows you to run both windows and mac on your mac at the same time.
You can go back and forth on your mac--fantastic software--under $100.00 and you cn run windows programs on your mac without any difficulty at all.
No reason at all to own a PC after Fusion came out...
Vista=ME? No ING WAY. You just discredited yourself with that one buddy. It's not even close.
My Vista is pimp. Never understood the hate.
I agree Brut. Is it a memory hog? Sure...but throw enough RAM at it and you'll be very happy with it. By enough, I'm talking at least 2 gigs. I had a core II cpu and 2gb ram in my laptop and it handled Vista beautifully.
Last edited by blizz; 08-01-2008 at 07:53 AM.
Trying to run Vista on an older machine is asking for problems. Roll back to XP if you still have a copy.
Exactly. People said the same thing about XP when it first came out and it's now believed to be one of the best OSes ever...BUT...XP on my old PIII 500 with 384mb RAM is a DOG. That doesn't mean XP is a POS, it's the hardware that sucks.
Maybe one of the best Micro$loth OS's ever, no more.
Hah, the funny thing is, I have hard numbers to prove Vista is not all that, you just have an opinion. As far as the Vista = ME thing I may have not made myself clear. Im not saying its just like ME, Im saying in terms of an OS it is the Windows ME of today. There is a number of reasons almost every large business is staying away from Vista but chief among them is compatability and performance.
Its not all bad, Vista IS faster in some area's but In overall performance, XP is 16.4% faster.
CPU string sorting
XP processed 2064.8 thousand strings per second, while Vista processed 2080.1 thousand strings per second.
2D graphics shapes test
XP processed 29.2 thousand shapes per second, and Vista processed 30.4 thousand shapes per second.
simple 3D graphics test
Vista processed 125.8 frames per second, and XP processed 134.0 frames per second.
medium 3D graphics test
XP processed 16.0 frames per second, while Vista processed 18.6 frames per second.
memory write test
XP processed 950.5 MBps and Vista processed 954.6 MBps.
random disk seek test
XP processed 2.91 MBps, while Vista processed 3.88 MBps.
(Except for the random disk seeking, the difference between the other five tests is negligible.)
2D graphics lines test
Vista processed 76.3 thousand lines per second, whereas XP processed 138.3 thousand lines per second.
2D graphics rectangles test
Vista processed 39.7 thousand images per second, and XP processed 94.3 thousand images per second. That's a difference of 58 percent.
2D graphics fonts and text test
Vista processed 115.2 operations per second, while XP processed 172.7 operations per second.
small block memory allocation test
Vista processed 1349.3 MBps and XP processed 1861.6 MBps.
large RAM memory test
Vista performed 127.2 operations per second, and XP performed 229.2 operations per second.
sequential disk read test
Vista processed 32.4 MBps, whereas XP processed 65.4 MBps.
sequential disk write test
Vista processed 39.4 MBps and XP processed 60.6 MBps
(source: http://www.crn.com/software/198702242?pgno=1 )
As far as gaming goes? Take a look here for some more numbers... http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ta,1531-4.html
Last edited by phyzik; 08-01-2008 at 03:09 PM.
Show me where I said that Vista was better than XP? You said that it was equal to ME...I just said it was not. I like BOTH OSes. I'm curious, in those tests, was the hardware in each system equal? You should know where I'm going with this.
Yes, identical systems. Read the source for full information on the benchmark. I didnt come up with the numbers personally, I just pulled them from that sight.
No no that's cool, but being in IT, you have to know that you can't compare a robust operating system, which requires robust hardware, with an old operating system which doesn't require as much. All things being equal, that is with the recommended hardware requirements for each os, as they are stated by MS, I don't think Vista would fare that much worse. Bottom line: You can't expect a machine built for XP to run Vista as it is intended to run.
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Like others have already said, if your Mac is running 10.5, or at least sporting 1ghz for the processor and at least 2G ram, I would say hook it up with Boot Camp, Parallels, or VMWare Fusion and craigslist the Winbox if you don't use it.
I have my iMac Boot Camped so I can boot into Windows (XP) completely, or I can run Parallels and bring up Windows WHILE I'm running OS X. And my 2G of RAM seems to handle it fine, even when I bring up some pretty heavy stuff in Windows (like FruityLoops or 3D modeling software)
Yay. Now someone appreciates my genius!
Can't really do that. I only have 120GB HDD on my MB. So, I resorted to buying another laptop. :-)
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