On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > I had a pro photog friend on mine give up on Vista in his new Dell, demanded > & finally got them to install Xp (this was a little after Vista came out).
The last flyer that came with our local paper, that hocks MDG, Canada's version of Dell, is now offering Vista OR XP as the OS. Just an observation. Dave > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <war...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: ICC Paper Profiles > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luiz Felipe" >> Subject: Re: ICC Paper Profiles >> >> >>> ... really, really, hoping this thread remains unknown where I work... >>> >>> Vista is not that bad - was released way before time, so it's just now >>> coming to where it was aimed. Problem is, by now it's widely tagged as >>> unreliable (wrong hardware+ early release) and slow (again, wrong hardware). >> >> We bought a Vista machine late last summer to replace my XP machine for >> image editing at the studio. >> It should be designed for Vista, as it is a high end OTS box. >> It has an AMD quad core processor and 3 gb of RAM, two hard drives and >> runs about half as fast as my two year old (also OTS) XP box with one HD >> when running actions on bulk files. >> >> I've turned off pretty much everything I can turn off, including the >> horrid graphics package that is Aero to no avail. >> What is really irksome is that I cannot (nor can our hired gun technician) >> get the damned thing to allow full two way networking. I can pull files off >> of it, and I can import files to it if I am sitting in front of it, but I >> can't put files onto it from any other computer on the network. >> two Thousand and bloody eight, and we are having to run files back and >> forth on memory cards because the computers aboslutely refuse to let us dump >> files from one machine to another because the OS seems to think it's hard >> drives are sacramental. >> I am pretty underwhelmed by my Vista experience so far. >> >> William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
