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Still running XP?
Aneroph:
I could easily run Vista, but when It came out I heard a lot of bad things as well as not having the crazy amount of money for it. XP currently does just about everything and more that Vista can do (at least in the field of stuff I do to it) so switching didn't make a whole lot of sense. I started wishing for Vista a few months back just because I started feeling left out, but Windows 7 is on the way now so I'll try to hold off and buy a new computer stocked with W7 when it comes out and kill 2 birds with one stone.
Pzc:
The reason I still run XP is that Vista would cost
me quite a bit to buy and it doesn't come with
anything I really want that XP doesn't have.
It hogs more resources (I still think that's an issue
although the computer's more than powerful
enough to handle Vista), the eyecandy isn't fun
for more than a day or so and the only thing
Vista can do that XP can't is DX 10+.
Microsoft themselves not liking Vista much isn't
helping either, really.
Sosseres:
I have no reason to switch to vista. I ran it for two weeks when it first came out, then I switched back. It simply didn't feel better, it has to be better to justify spending money on it and losing computer performance.
My computer can run it just fine, 3.0 c2d, 4 gig ram...
Then there is the reason that switching OS is a pain, you have to reinstall and so on. The vista install with all patches and SP takes much longer than the same for windows xp x64. Unless I pre download the SP, then it is about the same.
Then there are the downsides to vista, UAC (have to turn that off directly), even more focus on personalized parts of the computer (a real pain when un-installing) and others that I can't recall just now.
Only things vista has going over XP is more games for free and dx 10, which most games aren't made for in any case.
MTR:
My mom's computer is still running Windows XP because if I installed Vista on it, it would run dreadfully slow. The videocard doesn't support Aero Glass, and it only has a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz and 1GB DDR ram.
My brother's computer came with Vista on it and it ran horribly slow because of the 1GB of ram installed. I decided to put XP on it and add another 1GB stick of ram to it, and XP runs perfectly.
My laptop has an Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.8Ghz with 1.5GB of RAM. It came with Vista Home Premium and it ran pretty slowly and was constantly crashing, so I put XP on it and it ran like silk. I've since installed Windows 7 RC1 on it and it still runs better than Vista did, but XP still ran better on it.
So to sum things up, reasons I still run XP: a) computer doesn't support it and b) I just don't like Vista.
Sosseres:
I'll probably switch over to windows 7 the next time I upgrade my computer, just for direct x 10 support. :/
http://www.techmixer.com/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp/ though if things like this continue onwards until I can reliably use them I might stick with XP another generation. :)
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