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I wonder if many of the people here know what their talking about…Bottom line is vista is here to stay. You’ll have to upgrade eventually, unless you are willing to pay MORE for mac hardware/software which will offer you very little to nothing more - or even less (depending on your intended use).
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[QUOTE=Kinthalis]
Why are you looking to install a new OS on an old machine? Vista brings about a lot of improvements, but all those improvements come at a cost. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
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So which is it? “Vista is here to stay” (get onboard or die) or “Why are you looking to install a new OS on an old machine?” (Don’t upgrade until you need to.) One moment you’re saying, yes, of course you need to upgrade your machine because Vista’s bright-n-shiny new technology (which isn’t all that new either in the guts nor the interface) requires more horsepower, and the next that Vista runs just fine on middle-of-the-road machines a few years old.
As for “you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” I can, again, run the latest versions of OS X on decade-old hardware without any major hiccups and only a very modest performance hit. This isn’t because Mac hardware is so far advanced or powerful or anysuch; it’s because Apple made the efficiency and performance of the Quartz interface in OS X a priority. As a result, it does many of the bright shiny things Vista does as well, with far fewer resources, more robustly, less intrusively, and without requiring upgrade after upgrade. The downside, such as it is, is that there is a limited set of hardware that you can run OS X on, even in the post-PPC days. This is a deliberate philosophy of Apple, however; not (just) to control profits on hardware, but to sell computers as an integrated system rather than a diverse set of components which may or may not play nicely together.
Microsoft Vista is an elephant in tennis shoes; bloated, unwieldy, requiring a lot of support, and splitting at the seams. Microsoft has the chance at every turn to start developing an OS that is truly the next generation commerical operating system; lean, robust, efficient, modular, scalable, highly configurable, et cetera. Instead, they poor their effort into designing great marketing materials and produce mediocre, lagging technology, which they’re able to do because of the inertia granted them by their enormous market share. “Where is the WOW?” their advertising banners ask, and no one seems to have a good answer for that question.
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