It sucks when your personal laptop has Vista, and work is XP and you try to do stuff that can only be done on Vista, ha... It's annoying at times.

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Unless your computer has enough RAM and a good processor.
Vista is a resource hog.

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if u are building a custom-made system like i will be doing on about 3 or so months, make sure ur system will have atleast 4GB of ram. more the ram, the better and faster ur system will be.

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Antivirus. Smart one.

I like it, but I wouldn't upgrade from XP. You don't know what could happen...

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no. stay with xp or get a mac

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ok. NOW WHY DID you have to put a MAC into this??

last time i checked - i dont care if steve jobs has a notebook that is 3/4 of an inch thick.

MAC sucks

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Is it worth upgrading from windows xp sp2 to windows vista

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Never upgrade to Vista. If it comes on a new PC, fine, but upgrading will give you no end of headaches unless you're very lucky. And I hope you don't have any printers.

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Truth is; Vista only sucks when you upgrade from a XP machine.

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No stick with XP. But I recently bought a new Laptop that came with Vista and so far its been working flawlessly.

Truth is; Vista only sucks when you upgrade from a XP machine.

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No- Vista also sucks if you don't manually go in and throughly customize it. That is, prune all the numerous useless services, and then disable the ones you won't use, use a proper user account to avoid constant UAC confirmation dialogs even when you're just using the computer normally, etc.

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Vista is good if you're experienced with tweaking settings etc.

If you have poor tweaking knowledge then stick with xp.

I'll give Vista a few months to see people loving it.  My guess is that if a system does not have good components then it can be a bad experience.  How about having at least 4GB of memory, Dual Core 3.0 or Quad 2.4 and up, a graphics card of at least 512MG, more than 250GB of space, etc.  It would be just fine.

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is directx 10 worth it

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Honestly, if you could use DX10, you probably wouldnt be asking.

Yes, DX10 is pretty, but its near impossible to run.

I personally like Vista (Im probably going to get rid of XP this week) but Ive had time to adjust it, and I have a PC that can run it (4gb RAM, Quad Core processor, 8 series video card).

In short, keep with XP for another year, unless you get a PC that comes with Vista.

Drivers are the biggest problem with Vista right now, and most NEW PCs have good drivers.

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