Oh No! Addicted to vista.

[kouljackson]

I want to install "Ultimate Beast". Beast would be good OS name. Other names could be "Beast Pro", "Business Beast", "Beast Lite", "Consumer Beast", "Standard Beast", "Media Beast", and "Extreme Beast".

I like it

 

[supremedesigner]

I want to install "Ultimate Beast". Beast would be good OS name. Other names could be "Beast Pro", "Business Beast", "Beast Lite", "Consumer Beast", "Standard Beast", "Media Beast", and "Extreme Beast".

Beast Lite? That's funny.

 

[daze]

I looked at Vista, and liked the eye candy in it quite a bit. The blurring transparency is quite nice. I suspect, Leopard will at least match it.

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

 

[stunna]

I heard one of the reasons vista maybe slow is because the system is still indexing your files, for the search feature.
And people that are claiming its slow what are your system specs?

 

[Chrispy]

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

I thought Vista looked cool for sure. I just think they took it too far and ended up sacraficing system performance to get the cool look. I really like how when you minimize and maximize windows they kinda fade into view... pretty sweet I must say.

I heard one of the reasons vista maybe slow is because the system is still indexing your files, for the search feature.
And people that are claiming its slow what are your system specs?

Vista had finished indexing on my system I can be sure since I ran the OS for over a week. I had it running on a Dell Latitude D620 with a 1.66 core duo, 2GB RAM, 7,200 RPM HDD and a 256MB Quadro NVS110M graphics card. Performance just seemed laggy to me. XP is still the snappiest OS out there if you ask me... before it gets bogged down from a few years of use that is. OSX starts out a little slower but it stays pretty much the same. I prefer consistency over speed in the long run.

 

[jellybean]

Vista runs "ok" on my windoze laptop. It's not lightning fast but it's acceptable, espesh for a beta I guess. When I turn off Aero and switch to the basic UI there's a noticable performance gain and the battery isn't drained as fast.

Specs: Intel Core Duo 1.83, 1gb ram, radeon x1300 with 256mb...

The aero interface is VERY nice, and I'm hoping Apple will respond with a new, nicer interface in Leopard.

Functionality-wise, there are a few big improvements. The start menu is vastly improved. No more big menus and submenus unfolding across the whole screen, instead just a simple A-Z of apps and folders in one single pane. I LOVE how I can bring up any application really quickly without even touching the mouse, by hitting the windows button to bring up the start menu, typing in the first few letters of the app and hitting enter to launch it.

Every explorer window has a burn button at the top. I don't need to create a burn folder and drag stuff in etc like in Tiger. I can just go to the folder I want and hit burn.

But it still feels very much like a beta. When it's finished and polished it will probably match/surpass Tiger in a lot of ways, so here's hoping Leopard will kick it's glassy aero butt back into the dark ages. (Though my gut feeling tells me Leopard may just seem like another "service pack" upgrade like Tiger felt to Panther, to me it did anyway...)

 

[Chrispy]

here's hoping Leopard will kick it's glassy aero butt back into the dark ages. (Though my gut feeling tells me Leopard may just seem like another "service pack" upgrade like Tiger felt to Panther, to me it did anyway...)

I agree with you on that one. The only thing Tiger really added that was a very welcome feature to me was spotlight. I wonder what they will do with Leopard now that it seems they have everything I need. The thing that bugged me about Tiger was it made a lot of PM G5s chirp that did not have that problem with Panther.

 

[maxi]

I LOVE how I can bring up any application really quickly without even touching the mouse, by hitting the windows button to bring up the start menu, typing in the first few letters of the app and hitting enter to launch it.

That's what I do with spotlight, so it's not some "new" feature of vissssta

 

[dpaanlka]

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

Actually, I think Vista looks not only overdone (tried too hard to make everything stupendous) but also unpolished. And, let me remind you all, that we had transparent titlebars in earlier builds of OS X, but it was taken out (thankfully) due to how annoying it was after the "neat" wore off. Ditto for the almost 50% transparent menus (which are not in this picture). It may look cool at first, but it really is a stupid idea - it simply doesn't look good when you have dozens of windows open. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Windows users maximize everything so it wouldn't matter. Makes sense now.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Every explorer window has a burn button at the top.

So does Tiger if you turn that particular preference on. Control-click on the coggy-thing icon at the top of the window to customise the window.

 

[7on]

So does Tiger if you turn that particular preference on. Control-click on the coggy-thing icon at the top of the window to customise the window.

yeah, but it doesn't work (it'll say you need to create a burn folder first).

 

[yg17]

Once you've gotten a few BSODs and find your computer infected with spyware and viruses, you'll switch back

 

[grabberslasher]

Actually, I think Vista looks not only overdone (tried too hard to make everything stupendous) but also unpolished. And, let me remind you all, that we had transparent titlebars in earlier builds of OS X, but it was taken out (thankfully) due to how annoying it was after the "neat" wore off. Ditto for the almost 50% transparent menus (which are not in this picture). It may look cool at first, but it really is a stupid idea - it simply doesn't look good when you have dozens of windows open. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Windows users maximize everything so it wouldn't matter. Makes sense now.

You fail to take into account the fact that Vista blurs the stuff behind, so that the transparency doesn't affect visibility like in OS X did. Graphics hardware was incapable of doing that back when Apple did transparency, but now it can.

 

[wmmk]

You fail to take into account the fact that Vista blurs the stuff behind, so that the transparency doesn't affect visibility like in OS X did. Graphics hardware was incapable of doing that back when Apple did transparency, but now it can.

screenshot of vista doing this, please?

 

[dpaanlka]

You fail to take into account the fact that Vista blurs the stuff behind, so that the transparency doesn't affect visibility like in OS X did. Graphics hardware was incapable of doing that back when Apple did transparency, but now it can.

uhh that doesn't really improve visibility, especially when there are several title bars under each other....

 

[apunkrockmonk]

Actually, I think Vista looks not only overdone (tried too hard to make everything stupendous) but also unpolished. And, let me remind you all, that we had transparent titlebars in earlier builds of OS X, but it was taken out (thankfully) due to how annoying it was after the "neat" wore off. Ditto for the almost 50% transparent menus (which are not in this picture). It may look cool at first, but it really is a stupid idea - it simply doesn't look good when you have dozens of windows open. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, Windows users maximize everything so it wouldn't matter. Makes sense now.

Sometimes I wish I could go back to those days. I love the pin stripes.

When I first got my Sawtooth it came with 10.1. It was soooooo slow.

I swear it got 3-4 times MORE responsive when I installed Tiger.

 

[decksnap]

To all the Mac fan boys, admit it, Vista looks better than Tiger. Now, functionality is another matter.

I admit nothing!! Vista looks horrible in my opinion. Seriously.

 

[gh0sted]

I think the transperency is not so hot. I am sure a lot of people will love it though. I mean you can see your adaware and norton internet security behind your I.E. just to make you feel safer!

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