anybody beta testing

[froggorino]

vista? i am curious about what you think...

[Devdog]

It's a HUGE resource hog at least the build I was running. I have a Pentium 2.66mhx processor, 2 gigabytes or ram, and an Nvidia 7800gt video card and the thing takes about 5 minutes before you can even do anything after boot up. Even then it runs extremely slow. I think you are going to need either a processor that supports hyperthreading or is a dual core one. I think it still has a ways to go before it is ready for the general public.

Devdog.

[aquaphase]

I have lucked out of having anything to do w/ the Vista testing. I remember having to beta Win 2K and the install of 12 discs. Those early builds were utter hell, but it finally did work out ok. I'm not holding my breath about Vista, however.

[froggorino]

It's a HUGE resource hog at least the build I was running. I have a Pentium 2.66mhx processor, 2 gigabytes or ram, and an Nvidia 7800gt video card and the thing takes about 5 minutes before you can even do anything after boot up. Even then it runs extremely slow. I think you are going to need either a processor that supports hyperthreading or is a dual core one. I think it still has a ways to go before it is ready for the general public.

Devdog.

yah -- i think it has a 2 gig minimum requirement. totally is gonna limit the end-user amount of peeps that are going to use it. the main thing that i thought was resource hog.

frog"closet dork"gy

[Devdog]

Actually the minimum is going to be around 512 meg but the recommended will be around 1 gig. I think they haven't updated all of the drivers for the newer hardware which is why it is kind of slow. I think there will be a big difference when the public preview comes out.

Devdog.

[mdmusick]

We've got the beta installed on a few machines here at work for standardization testing.

So far, I'm not impressed.

The GUI is absolutely unnecessarily bloated. What's the point of being able to rotate your windows and cascade them diagonally in 3-D? I really don't get it.

They more or less "borrowed" the overall feel of OSX. Once the DRM buit is added I'm sure it'll become even more of a resource waster and a constricting, glossy mess.

Needless to say, I'm not impressed so far. I'll stick with XP; after all, they've actually got it up to a good solid level of stability at this point; why jump ship for a needless, bloated, buggy OS?

Oh, and it's a BITCH to get some of our scripts to run on it.

[Devdog]

Oh. I did forget to mention that Windows Media Player 11 on Vista jacked up half of my mp3 collection. The strange thing I can play everything on WMP but when I play it on Itunes, it does nothing. Not sure it was a coincidence. I had to re-rip about 2000 songs. Be warned. I now keep 2 copies of all my mp3's, one on my home pc and one on my external hard drive I take to work.

Devdog.

[Steveums]

Oh. I did forget to mention that Windows Media Player 11 on Vista jacked up half of my mp3 collection. The strange thing I can play everything on WMP but when I play it on Itunes, it does nothing. Not sure it was a coincidence. I had to re-rip about 2000 songs. Be warned. I now keep 2 copies of all my mp3's, one on my home pc and one on my external hard drive I take to work.

Devdog.

whatever the windows/mac argument, windows is still a good, workable OS.

Windows Media Player, however. There's something that... cannot even be described in terms of awful, awful software. Windows => Winamp. It's the only way.