switch to Mac or stick with Windows

SNGX1275 · Jun 22, 2006

I guess I could look into all that mess, but I really don't feel like it - if it bothered me enough I'd make a new thread or post in the vista beta 2 thread. After I get home from work I want to use a system that just works without spending time troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is maybe something I'll do on the weekend.

Basically, I don't care enough about vista at this point to look into it during my evenings when I could be doing something more relaxing.

jobeard · Jun 22, 2006

SNGX1275 said:

I want to use a system that just works without spending time troubleshooting.

this is a prime motivator for Mac users -- use the system, not manage it :giddy:

stmt of fact: My wife's Mac takes 1/10 the mangement time of Win/XP

DragonMaster · Jun 22, 2006

Well, in fact, managment on OS X can be long(To get all it's performance). Like with Windows, they don't give every tools you need to manage it properly.

Instead of running Ad-Aware, chkdsk, etc. you run OnyX, disk utility, monolingual, and a lot others I forgot their name. (They are all used to clean everything and optimize your files. It can take more than an hour to run all this, and at least you see a performance difference.)

With Linux, all my apps are upgraded with the same utility, the file system needs no optimizations, and needs no checkup after an unclean shutdown (It will check everything in a few seconds and correct it if there's a problem, all the apps are always properly placed, there's a different partition for swap, programs, boot, system, and your own config/personal files.)

SNGX1275 · Jun 23, 2006

Ok, Vista's piss poor performance was on its first boot, I should have realized this as a potential problem before I spoke too harshly about it. But admitedly I was not the one that broke the news to TS about it being slow.

I've finally got a chance now to boot into it and install some stuff and actually get my sound to work. Everything appears to be working now except my SATA Raid (silicon something) but thats cool because I don't have anything connected to those 4 channels anyway. There are 2 other unknown devices in the device manager, I'm not sure what they are but I don't see it as a problem.. yet.

For the most part its much speedier now, but some things are incredibly slow still, like accessing the device manager, it thinks for a while (but doesn't even appear to be thinking, just feels like lag) then dims the displays to ask me if I for sure was the one that wanted to open device manager.

To answer your question earlier about how the ram looks - PF Usage is 1.09GB, Commit Charge is 1120/2311M (Peak was 1179596K). Avaiable Physical Memory is 558,548K. This is with mIRC, Trillian, 3 IE windows open, Device Manager, Task Manager, Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound, and 3 explorer windows open.

CPU usage isn't doing much staying pretty low, jumped to 17% for just a bit when alt tabbing (as it created the preview windows). So right now I think the lag I'm getting isn't so much hardware related as it is just a beta os.

DragonMaster · Jun 23, 2006

except my SATA Raid (silicon something)

http://www.siliconimage.com/support/

SNGX1275 · Jun 24, 2006

why? other than to make the ! go away. I don't need it.

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