My experience has been vastly different than yours. My laptop was also "made for Vista", has more RAM than it needs (4 gigs), and can still hardly run a full dev environment including Eclipse(CF+FlexBuilder), CF8, and SQL Server + various misc programs. XP does this without any problem.
An OS that's so bloated it's not usable is a steaming pile. But that's just my opinion. -Cameron On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used Vista for quite a few months and it isn't a steaming pile. I think > it > is a useless upgrade and just as happy with XP once I downgraded. Vista > was > resource hungry and didn't really give me anything in return so thats why > I > switched back to XP. I had no stability issues with Vista, infact since my > Laptop was made for vista I actually had better integration with Vista. > Once > I turned off the accept or decline thing it ran much like XP, just used > more > memory. Since I didn't use most of the hot key integrations with Vista I > really didn't notice a difference between Vista and XP. The difference is > that since XP is a bit lighter on resources it ran a little better under > load of all my applications open. So its not a steaming pile but its not > much of upgrade to XP either, its really just useless. > > > Adam > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Vista is a steaming pile. > > > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9929405-56.html?tag=nefd.lede > > > > > > This just does not sound like a resounding endorsement of Vista. > > > Manufactures are pre-downgrading Vista machines to XP at the factory. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259222 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
