I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should I
stick with XP?
G wrote:
> I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
> etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
> very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
>
> I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should I
> stick with XP?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graham
>
>
Vista is not worth the cost.
> I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram
> etc etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run
> FSX very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually
> upgrade.
>
> I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or
> should I stick with XP?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graham
Catch-22 situation here. Microsoft has a sunset policy in effect for XP
as they want people to move on towards Vista. Even though "official"
support will be ending XP has proven itself to be robust when properly
maintained.
If I were using Microsoft as my primary OS I'd stay with XP. Plenty of
experience can be found within these newsgroups for support.
In article <CoydnSFTl_h0sOPVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com>, "G" <graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote:
>I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
>etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
>very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
>
>I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should I
>stick with XP?
Definitely XP. Vista offers nothing of value to me compared to XP.
To the contrary, XP does - by virtues of being less of a resource
hog and being more stable.
"DK" <dk@no.email.thankstospam.net> wrote in message
news:FDxfk.348$RM1.307@newsfe01.iad...
> In article <CoydnSFTl_h0sOPVnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@bt.com>, "G"
> <graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
>>etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
>>very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
>>
>>I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should
>>I
>>stick with XP?
>
> Definitely XP. Vista offers nothing of value to me compared to XP.
> To the contrary, XP does - by virtues of being less of a resource
> hog and being more stable.
>
> DK
G wrote:
> I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
> etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
> very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
> I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should I
> stick with XP?
Until 64-bit, DirectX 10 games come... cheaper to stay with XP.
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:20:39 +0100, "G"
<graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote:
>I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
>etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
>very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
>
>I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should I
>stick with XP?
>
If you use firefox stick with xp, vista has no benefit. If you use
ie, might as well get the aditional security of vista's ie virtual
mode and UAC. Contrary to other people, I havent' had much trouble
with vista, once I figured out that norton was a piece of crap.
Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) wrote:
> G wrote:
>> I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram
>> etc etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot
>> run FSX very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually
>> upgrade.
>> I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or
>> should I stick with XP?
>
> Until 64-bit, DirectX 10 games come... cheaper to stay with XP.
If you want to play games, buy an X-box or Wii or something like
that.... Then run a non-$GameOS on your computer, like linux
In article <ffgu74p2apdfgsmjehqhvbujn56j6j2omc@4ax.com>, hillco@earthlink.net wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:20:39 +0100, "G"
><graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>>I will be building a new machine soon, probably a Quad Core, 2 Gig Ram etc
>>etc. I use my PC mainly for office stuff and Flight Sim, cannot run FSX
>>very well on my old P4 so that is why I am going to eventually upgrade.
>>
>>I just want to know if there would be any advantage using Vista or should I
>>stick with XP?
>>
>
>
>If you use firefox stick with xp, vista has no benefit. If you use
>ie, might as well get the aditional security of vista's ie virtual
>mode and UAC. Contrary to other people, I havent' had much trouble
>with vista, once I figured out that norton was a piece of crap.
Norton (Symantec) is a POS for at least the past decade.
>> Until 64-bit, DirectX 10 games come... cheaper to stay with XP.
>
> If you want to play games, buy an X-box or Wii or something like
> that.... Then run a non-$GameOS on your computer, like linux
I feel more comfortable playing games on a keyboard.
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Vista or XP 
7/8
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