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Legend
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From: Central Oklahoma
I run windows (still on XP. 
) simply because my games won't run under Mac O/S.
Vista wasn't an "upgrade".......
Win 7 is actually pretty good, but, I still object to Microsoft removing directsound from directx. Turns your nice highdollar hardware accelerated sound card into something no better than onboard chips. There are workarounds for that, but, they are just that, workarounds..... Given that MS is going to drop support for XP soon, and I already can't find printer drivers for my O/S (XP 64 bit.) I am going to have to bite the bullet soon, and 'upgrade' to 7. I don't like 8.
How does Microsoft define an upgrade? Replacing software that doesn't work, with software that doesn't work.. in a different way.
) simply because my games won't run under Mac O/S. Vista wasn't an "upgrade".......
Win 7 is actually pretty good, but, I still object to Microsoft removing directsound from directx. Turns your nice highdollar hardware accelerated sound card into something no better than onboard chips. There are workarounds for that, but, they are just that, workarounds..... Given that MS is going to drop support for XP soon, and I already can't find printer drivers for my O/S (XP 64 bit.) I am going to have to bite the bullet soon, and 'upgrade' to 7. I don't like 8.
How does Microsoft define an upgrade? Replacing software that doesn't work, with software that doesn't work.. in a different way.
And yes, I know Vista sucked big donkey *****, which is why I wasn't going to "upgrade" to it.
The one person I know who didn't think Vista was that bad is the kind of guy who is "plugged into the Collective" of Microsoft. When I told him not everyone gets off spending weeks tweaking a system to run properly like he does he denied doing so. I told him he should just admit that he did. Even the networking guys where I work hated Vista.
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From: California
That's called a feature.
And yes, I know Vista sucked big donkey *****, which is why I wasn't going to "upgrade" to it.
The one person I know who didn't think Vista was that bad is the kind of guy who is "plugged into the Collective" of Microsoft. When I told him not everyone gets off spending weeks tweaking a system to run properly like he does he denied doing so. I told him he should just admit that he did. Even the networking guys where I work hated Vista.
And yes, I know Vista sucked big donkey *****, which is why I wasn't going to "upgrade" to it.
The one person I know who didn't think Vista was that bad is the kind of guy who is "plugged into the Collective" of Microsoft. When I told him not everyone gets off spending weeks tweaking a system to run properly like he does he denied doing so. I told him he should just admit that he did. Even the networking guys where I work hated Vista.
Legend
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: orangeville ontario
I would like to upgrade to a newer Mac that's running a solid-state drive; however, I have zero use for these newer machines that are coming with one-half Terabyte of storage. My current machine has an 80GB drive of which only ~40GB is being used. I'm not one of those who feels the need to pirate and store Gigabytes of movies and music.
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