How will upgrading to Windows Vista work? - Page 2

LMAO! Sad but soo true..

ANyone know of any Vista drivers for the NVIDIA cards... I checked NVIDIA.com and got this....

NVIDIA beta drivers for Windows Vista December CTP:
Updated NVIDIA graphics drivers are included in the Vista December CTP build, available directly from the Microsoft Developer's Network. These drivers are only compatible with Vista December CTP, version 5270.Winmain.051214-1910 and should not be used with other versions of Vista.

that driver really sucks... has anyone hacked one together for us yet? TIA... I am dual booting my E1705 now but Vista is pretty much useless without the good driver.

unless you absolutely, positively must have Vista ASAP (or are a masochist lol), do what you should do for all new OS’s – wait for the first Service Pack… let everyone ELSE find all the obvious potholes in the road… should make your trip much smoother... there will always be plenty of kids/idiots who MUST have the latest & greatest...

i've been a mainframe pgmr/analyst for over 20 years and when a new version of the OS comes out everybody who can just puts it on a shelf for at least 6 months...

It's sorta like the joke about the young bull and the old bull standing on a hill overlooking a herd of cows. The young bull says "why don't we run down there and sc**w us one of those cows?"

The old bull responded “why don’t we WALK down there and sc**w them ALL?”

personally i would recommend clean reinstal - not only upgradeing - it will save you lots of time finding out why this particula rprogram isn't working - its non cocmpatible with vista or only didn't survive upgradeing

I'm a MS Beta tester and I installed build 5308 about a week ago on my E1705. The OS is pretty stable for something that is beta and it's got a very MACish feel to it. It takes getting used to but overall it's really nice. The aero glass effect is done pretty well without much overhead. Unfortunately, I could not get the Sigmatel sound drivers to work so I went back to XP after a few days.

Vista works on the iXPS2... the only problem i have is my wireless network. But that's not so bad considering it's beta and Vista installed all the drivers automatically. I'm sure i can fix the wireless problem, i just haven't bothered.

Vista is VERY sweet. Very streamline, without things being bloated or cluttered. The 3D desktop is wild. Also, dpi scaling actually works, so if you increase the dpi, it scales correctly in all the windows. But what i'm most excited about is the new Windows Media Player and how it handles all your mp3s and videos... just sooooo sweet.

It's also got gadgets (ie konflabulator / OSX widgets)... but most of the gadgets in beta suck. Although i can see where MS is going with it. Gadgets, Live.com, hell all of Windows and MS products, seems like they're all being integrated with live.com. Your hotmail account is becoming part of live.com. So is msn messenger. Gadgets. So i think what they're trying to do, is free people from specific computers, and have people personalize themselves through live.com, and then live.com follows them wherever they go. For example, in order to get a gadget, you need to have it personalize in live.com... so if you go to another computer, and log in to live.com, all your gadgets could potentially load onto that computer for you. So if you have gadgets to check your mail, another gadget that shows your stocks, and another gadget that has a list of your tasks... if you go to another computer, and log in to live.com, all those gadgets would load for you as if it was your main computer.

Anyways, that's all my theory at least. But i'm glad Vista is coming out. 'Don't fix it because it ain't broken' is a dumb philosophy to live by. It's about time a new OS is coming out, one that's taking advantage of all the computer power and bandwidth we have now.

Upgrading Windows.

1) Insert the Vista DVD
2) Hope that you meet the System Requirements for the version you bought.
3) Realize you didn't check the new Microsoft Hardware Scale to see if your machine was a 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
4) Attempt to figure out the scale.
5) Realize that your computer is a 3.
6) Look at the Vista box again.
7) Notice that your version requires a 4 or 5.
8) Install pops up right after saying that you don't meet the System Requirements.
9) You can't return Vista to the Store because you opened it and took the DVD out of the shrink-wrapped sleeve.
10) You sell all your stuff on eBay and buy a new Dell with Vista already on it.