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Vista Vista Vista!

Post by NeoThermic » Sat, 09 2006 Sep 02:31:36

I finally took a look at Vista RC1 the other day. Not without issues, mind, but I have to say that I'm in love with Vista. Congrats MS, I want your OS for once!

For one, Areo Glass is amazing. I have to say that once enabled, you won't want to disable it. If you don't have a computer that can support Areo Glass, then update or don't bother with Vista, as without Glass, Vista is nothing.

For example, here's winkey+tab:

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It doesn't look like much, or a waste of resources and slow, but it is neither. The abiltiy to see in real time what each app is before you take to tabbing to it is amazing. This is updated in real time as well, so you can even watch two applications update (watching a google video while keeping an eye on IRC for example).

It is also amazingly fast. As far as one is able to work out, the processing of the GUI is handed down to the grapics card, and even my old 9600 Pro was more than enough power to make this smooth.

Speaking of ATi, for the moment don't try use the offical ATi Vista RC driver. It doesn't work, (at least not on my 9600 or my friends x1600). If you happen to install it, go into Vista's safemode (F8 on boot), and uninstall or revert the driver. Just make sure that Vista doesn't see the ATi driver still. You can then boot back into Vista and use your OS.

Also, if you install or run an application that doesn't support Areo Glass (of note, Java runtime is one), then the OS drops out of Glass. So far the following apps haven't supported it:
  • 3D Mark (01 and 03)
  • Java runtime
    If you install the Java runtime for Firefox, anytime you run firefox, Glass is disabled. Only by uninstalling Java will Areo work.
Back to Vista!
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Post by who_cares » Sat, 09 2006 Sep 02:41:32

cool, where'd you get RC1?
I have beta 2 but it seems to be a buggy iso

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Post by NeoThermic » Sat, 09 2006 Sep 02:44:24

Assuming you've got a valid Beta 2 key, you nab it from the super secret Vista RC1 download page on windowsvista.com ;)

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Post by webmacster87 » Sat, 09 2006 Sep 03:01:05

Cool stuff NeoThermic! Those new features are great! Course, as a Mac user, I've been enjoying those features for about 4 years now...
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Post by NeoThermic » Sat, 09 2006 Sep 03:03:33

webmacster87 wrote:Cool stuff NeoThermic! Those new features are great! Course, as a Mac user, I've been enjoying those features for about 4 years now...
Granted, possibly. But we've been using x86 since 1978... Macs? Hmm. Last year ;)

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Post by who_cares » Mon, 11 2006 Sep 01:45:34

NeoThermic wrote:Granted, possibly. But we've been using x86 since 1978
and some of us have dual boot with an AMD 64 chip.

I isntalled it today, I'm really impressed, after I got the hang of the new filesystem it was fairly user friendly. I've been waiting for MS to get the hand of that for years

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Post by webmacster87 » Sat, 16 2006 Sep 00:53:00

The hardware is nothing without the software. Even if it was on a different chip before, we've still been having the great features.
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Post by Guest » Tue, 17 2006 Oct 03:58:24

webmacster87 wrote:The hardware is nothing without the software. Even if it was on a different chip before, we've still been having the great features.
which is about the only selling point of that particular OS ;)

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Key?

Post by AWOSDev » Tue, 14 2006 Nov 03:32:28

I'm a part of the Vista CPP but for some reason M$ blocks my IP range from their SSL servers (all of them, I can't even access https://partners.microsoft.com).

So how do I get a key? Again I am a part of the CPP but I don't have a key because I could never connect to their secure server.

*sigh* I guess it's just another part of being switched to Comcast.

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Post by who_cares » Tue, 14 2006 Nov 03:45:28

they gave out keys for a certain period of time, after that I don't think you can get them

welp

Post by welp » Tue, 28 2006 Nov 21:16:16

Beryl on linux > Vista. End of.

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