10 Responses to “Windows”

1. Ryan Says:
   July 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 PM

   After all that, then I installed Safari. By far the smoothest installation so far. No reatart

2. Yannick Says:
   July 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 PM

   Nope, I probably wouldn’t jump to Vista just yet. You’d need to ensure that whatever hardware you have in your current system has Vista drivers. Also depending on what version of Vista you’re going to get, it could be pricey. I would assume though that for what you’re using it for you wouldn’t need all the bells and whistles. But hey that’s just my opinion, I’m quite fine sticking with Win XP for now. I use Linux for most of my computing tasks at home anyway and occasionally switch over to Windows. :)

3. Ryan Says:
   July 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 PM

   Thanks Yannick, I kind of balked at the price tag also… they want me to pay how much? to do the same thing on my computer that I’ve been doing for years, except slower and with semi-transparent edges? no thanks.

4. Luis Lavena Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 06:50 AM

   Ryan, I’ll suggest spend a few bucks in Acronis True Image.

   When I have complete, working installation, I create a image and store it in a DVD+R, when something crashes, I just restore from image and ready to go, just waster 30 minutes at most during restoration :-)

   Vista is too fancy to be useful, also too many versions to choose from :-P

5. Chris Pallé Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 09:33 AM

   Stick with XP. You went through all the trouble to get it working at this point. You’ll probably become doubley frustrated (perhaps even tripley or quadrupley) with Vista. Imagine that, shelling out how much for more headaches? Shoot, if you want, I’ll hit you upside the head a couple times for 20 bucks. Cheap! ;-)

   I have Vista running in Parallels and admittedly, it actually runs pretty well there. I wish I had XP, though. The only reason I got it was because CompUSA was going out of biz and I got it for like 20 something % off and the cost was about the same.

   Vista’s burden on the graphics card is just too much for what you get. If you’re just running it as a test box and accounting (really all that Windows is good for), there’s no need to upgrade.

   If you think going to Vista is going to leave updating and repairing behind, think again. I still get all those annoying update windows, yadda yaddda bits.

   Those are my thoughts, anyway. Take it or leave it. If you’re interested in the knock on the noggin, just let me know. :-P

6. Ryan Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 11:20 AM

   Update…

   After all this, I can’t get Quickbooks 2005 to install. Something about it being unable to install Flash 7 (I have the latest version of Flash installed). So I guess I’ll be shelling out for Quickbooks 2007.

   Windows has me on the upgrade treadmill.

   In comparison, I’ve had the same 12” Powerbook G4 since 2003, and it hasn’t missed a day.

7. Nathan Smith Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 12:19 PM

   The one and only reason I’d get Vista is when testing on IE8 becomes a priority. Until then, steer clear. I could get Vista free through my job (Microsoft Gold Partner) but I haven’t. OS X all the way.

8. Ryan Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 01:30 PM

   @chris I’ll hit you upside the head a couple times for 20 bucks. Cheap! ;-)

   Thanks for the offer Chris, I think I’ll stick with OS X instead. :)

9. Chris Pallé Says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 01:56 PM

   Here’s another thought: http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibiz/

10. Ignite Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 11:59 AM

    It means you should throw it out the window and get Parallels. ;)

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