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intel integrated graphics and they have updated it
to the intel x3100 only very recently. The fancy
graphics features in mac os x (like aero in vista) seemed usable with the integrated graphics chipset. It could be because apple has been doing these animations, transparent windows etc in the desktop for much longer than microsoft has. Probably future versions of windows would have less resource intensive aero as they spend more time developing it. Same with compiz in Linux,
it is an attraction for the first few hours, but
most people like myself disable it soon after that, as it takes lots of resources. Hope aero and compiz improves in time in terms of performance
and resource requirements and also start doing
something more productive in the desktop beyond
transparent windows and drop shadows.
run 10.5.x with little to no issue as long as it is a G4 864mhz
processor or faster.
Apple has proven that it does not demand the top of the line
hardware to run their latest OS. Apple's ability to work with a
company, or market shows that they are more likely to have their
computers out in the open market longer than the generic IBM
Clone running the one of many flavors of Windows Vista.
Apple may charge more for their computer , but you are
guranteed a system that will work longer in the open market,
and not to be dependent on raw processing power from both the
processor and the video card to get a special feature, like a
working OS.
run 10.5.x with little to no issue as long as it is a G4 864mhz
processor or faster.
Apple has proven that it does not demand the top of the line
hardware to run their latest OS. Apple's ability to work with a
company, or market shows that they are more likely to have their
computers out in the open market longer than the generic IBM
Clone running the one of many flavors of Windows Vista.
Apple may charge more for their computer , but you are
guranteed a system that will work longer in the open market,
and not to be dependent on raw processing power from both the
processor and the video card to get a special feature, like a
working OS.
From the emails it appears that Microsoft executives were fully aware of this, so this is a clear case of willfully trying to deceive their customers.
Vista and Office 2007 are a rip off and anyone looking can see it.
Why would anyone in their right mind redesign Office 2007 to be almost completely differenct than Office 2003.
Even Dell, Microsoft's biggest hardware partner, offers PCs with Ubuntu and FreeDOS. Compare one of these Windows free PCs with the same configuration pre-loaded with XP Home or Vista Home and you'll see that you save $49-$99.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
If you honestly believe you are being FORCED to buy anything, the fault is yours. Try being a little resourceful before proudly spouting misinformation and blaming others for your sheep-like attitude.
-Mister Winky
I have the aero interface and find it a waste of time, I mean who really cares that much?!?!?!
Now that Microsoft dropped the price because no one is buying it, I will buy two or three as a backup. I'd say I can't wait, but I have Vista, so obviously I can!
I often Have 30 + Applications spread over 4 desktops, and when I need to jump to a specific Application
I Have hot keys setup to show all on current desktop
OR all on ALL desktops.
I then choose the one I want and jump to that desktop !
Plus Alt Tab shows me the Actual Application so I can see which Firefox window I'm looking for!
some point, this action points to a company that does not give any
care for its customers but only for the dollars that it can generate.
Pick your product,..... pick your company....... live with your choice.
Suffer as you wish. :-)
Isn't this what Intel has always done? Intel has never screwed us before so why on earth would they want to keep selling outdated, inefficient, and most importantly, incapable or impracticable products? Just to make money at the expense of the consumer, to whom they would have had to lie to pull it off? Nah.... this is Intel.
I've followed Intel for almost 30 years and they've always been one of my favorite companies. Why I don't think I've even ever thought they were a bunch of lying, cheating, thieving "basturds" doing whatever they can to crush competition and keep their prices artificially high while sandbagging on their technology releases. Nope. Never that thought never crossed my mind before....
And to think that MS could have done something that might smack of collusion with Intel? MS breaking the law? MS combining with Intel to break federal laws and open themselves up to "restraint of trade" charges? Nah... MS, and Steve Balmer, are saints and here too; "I've never thought they were a bunch of lying, cheating, thieving "basturds" doing whatever they can to crush competition and keep their prices artificially high while sandbagging on their technology releases". Nope. Not once...
Makes you woner how Renee convinced Poole to agree? Late nite meeting? A man? A woman? Happy with the outcome? Hmmmmm...............
Just thinking.
Just thinking.
I find it rather interesting how Aero was always dissed and considered to be one of the worst and least important reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and now, all of a sudden (and very conveniently) seems to be the sole reason why people upgraded to Windows Vista in the first place, relegating to second plan such unimportant and secondary things like security and reliability.
I also find it rather interesting how anything that comes out of Microsoft's employees mouths is completely and utterly false unless it's something that can be used against Microsoft itself (in that case it actually seems to have more importance and truthness than anything said by Bush or the Pope).
Ah well, it's the usual Microsoft bias CNET and other very professional tech news sites have gotten us used to (afterall, their success depends on that; gotta please the customer/user/reader, right?). Too bad for them (and others) that Vista keeps in the (inevitable) way to become the world's most used operating system and they can't do anything against it, LOL.
ATI video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VcJojNMtmE
Nvidia video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptu8nUSVDg4
Even BusinessWeek gets into the action by dissing Intel and Vista: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2007/tc2007081_108723.htm?chan=search
Have fun and then cry for the poor saps who bought an Intel system with Vista.
Microsoft approved the change in spite of the behest of HP because HP uses an aweful lot of intel's hardware. Without intel, HP sells nothing but AMD which is being soundly squashed in sales with little hope of change unless they can come up with something better than their unfortunately unsuccesful attempt at competing with Intel's quad cores via the Phenom or their also so far unsuccessful attempt to compete with Nvidia through their ATI graphics line.
In essence, acquiessing wasn't the best move they could have made for the consumers, but with the largest, most prominent, and most powerful hardware manufacturer in the world at their door making requests; it would be very difficult for them to have denied the request outright (as then, Microsoft would have taken *all* the blame for another delay in Vista's release that was in no way their fault.
As much as I love intel products, this does sadden me a bit, though I can understand intel's logic behind the request. In the end, the program was carried out in effective enough fashion and the nomenclature was specific enough to have been effective. I would say that the only thing that Microsoft could have done better would have been to better publicize the difference for the consumers for their own sake. (personally, I would think that by now people would have realized that a monetarily cheap computer is cheap because it is poor quality or poor performing; since it's been that way since performance and quality were a factor in purchase)
Because the reason this blog entry came about,is due
to emails released during a class action suit claiming that M$ broke the law by changing the requirements of "Vista Capable" to keep intel happy!
and as far as educated consumers, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Best Buy, and all the rest are still saying "they recommend Vista", even though XP is the better ( of Microsoft's bloat/spy ware )
for your average user, a computer is akin to magic.
They trust (wrongly so) the sales kid (working on commission) their dealing with!
- Personal Experience with i915 chipset
- by maruzo724 March 20, 2008 6:40 PM PDT
- I've been using my brand new Sony Vaio VGN-FS742 notebook for slightly over 3 month in 2006 when I learned of the vista upgrade availability. I went out and bought a retailed Vista Ultimate dvd and tried to upgrade it unto my laptop.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (96 Comments)Shocker: I couldn't get the aero glass to work, no matter what I tried.
I couldn't return the Vista software and I ended up with a laptop with minimal functionality (not only is the laptop running only in basic mode, many of sony's original softwares were not working well under vista).
I'm rather disappointed in both Microsft and Intel.
I've since then reverted back to xp and put my vista ultimate dvd for sale on ebay.
I won't be coming back to either Intel or MS any time soon.