bj-kaiser Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 second that. I got my XP Pro with my ThinkPad, why should I "upgrade"? and at work, XP does the job, is supported until 2014 as of now and is paid. So why buy a new Windows version, work around new problems, if you know your running system good enough and your essential apps run on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Third that. XP just works.Vista looks nicer, and has a few new features. They're not groundbreaking enough to upgrade.Performance is significantly worse.Plus with the news of Windows7 in 2010, we can just wait 2 years. Why bother with Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesurfer Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 another poll on the same ole topic. this belongs in the poll center. i'm sure you'll find 10 other polls similar to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 another poll on the same ol' topic. this belongs in the poll center. I'm sure you'll find 10 other polls similar to this.Possibly, but for God's sake, don't move it or close it. We're doing quite nicely right here....thank you.I have both XP-Pro-SP2 and Vista Ultimate installed on my own (homebuilt) PC. (in separate HD's of course)It's no sluggard with an AMD dual core 3800+ cpu and 2 gigs of DDR2 ram and two SATA2 HD's.My reasons for preferring XP over Vista would not fit here in space or time allotted.But just a few....for a purist, XP will run quite fast on a FAT-32 formatted HD.....Vista will NOT.I can back up my XP partition to a single DVD or six gig flash drive....NOT so with Vista.(it's way too big for that)I can add, remove, delete, change attributes or rename any file in XP, or from a DOS boot disk....NOT so with Vista.It's forever telling me I don't have permission to do something, and I'm the Administrator. Don't you know, that really gripes my Axx!!!So for me and g'zillions of other purists, Vista wets the bed! Cheers Mates!Andromeda43 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 for a purist, XP will run quite fast on a FAT-32 formatted HD.....Vista will NOT.XP also performs much faster when you're running NTFS. It's a bit odd that Microsoft didn't do like they did with Vista and force NTFS to be the primary file system on XP. Vista enhances security in many ways, this is why you can only run NTFS.For anyone still running FAT/32 on your drive and you're on 2000 or XP, just do this:convert C: /fs:ntfsYou'll see a huge change as your entire system will perform much faster with reads/writes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 XP FTW!compatibility, performance, stabaility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted April 19, 2008 Share Posted April 19, 2008 is it true that since i need to "hack" to enable ACHI on XP, the performance will take a hit? from http://www.msfn.org/board/enable-AHCI-Inte...XP-t109450.htmlIt's not a "hack," it's just a registry edit to allow Windows to recognize the driver at boot. It's functionally no different than loading the driver from a floppy during installation.Correct, and I made that topic to help some people out that I advised a chipset with ICH9 and were missing that performance boost on XP.... only problem is file copying is still a pain, and improves with sp1 only by a little margin,...I don´t notice anything negative about transferring data between Vista and Vista, it should give you a performance boost as the network layer no is more optimized. Are you referring to Vista to XP or visa-versa? Then wait a few weeks for SP3 of XP and you will have that part solved too .How do you measure better? Is it faster? Any tests? From what I've seen on the Web (which need not necessarily be true) XP is faster than Vista on same hardware (either new or old).I moved from 32bit XP to 64bit Vista and have to say that all "feels" smoother, an huge difference I noticed was when I opened Adobe Photoshop for the first time: It just pops open and it´s ready to use! (wow, I almost look like a Vista fan-boy now )I can back up my XP partition to a single DVD or six gig flash drive....NOT so with Vista.(it's way too big for that)No problems here with that, as I use good compression. Time to move on and leave Norton Ghost for what it is an take a look at Acronis True Image (really, I would try it again although you had problems with it before, and no, it´s nothing personal). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 I moved from 32bit XP to 64bit Vista... That's not a fair comparison...GL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Okay, I cheat a bit. But who has XP 64bit legally? Now, 32 or 64 bit Vista has the same price, this is why I took 64bit and to tell you the truth I would never take 32bit Vista... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleko Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 i have vista 64bit sitting at home (legit) just dotn use it, but upgradign to for gigs or ram, so i may be tempted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 You should Maleko, Photoshop does its work so much faster ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrarca Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 XP64, hands down B)Vista is overly bloated, sluggish at times, and lacks compatibility with older apps and devices.Only with Win2008, it's starting to get better (although still some issues remain). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee85 Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 My vote goes for Vista entirely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialbao1 Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Windows vista is very difficult to operate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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