Amazon begins taking Vista orders

[0iD]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5297892.stm

Bit early

[XA04]

Well they're gona be buggered if M$ change their prices.

[Koolpc]

How many of you will be getting Vista when it comes out?

[greektony]

not me.......... i'll let all the tech monkeys who buy it first find all the bugs At the moment i'm happy with XP so unless all new software can only be run on Vista i'll not bother for ages

[XA04]

How many of you will be getting Vista when it comes out?

Not me. I'll upgrade to Windows XP x64 probably.

[pr0p4g4nd4]

Not me. I'll upgrade to Windows XP x64 probably.

I'm running it on my X2 now and if I had wifi drivers for my crappy Safecom pci card I'd switch in the blink of an eye. It is amazingly fast, especially Photoshop and the general OS. 3ds seems ultra fast even though it is a 32bit app, it must be because the OS is just so fast.

[Lee H]

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Wind...066416?ie=UTF8



Look at the geeky MS vs Apple tripe that's starting to appear on the comments already

[dangel]

I'm going to upgrade - the latest builds are really quick and the accelerated desktop makes even horrible .NET apps feel zippy..

Lots to like, despite the fashionable POV of slamming MS

[5lab]

i've already got beta 2 - i'll probably upgrade when the licence to that perishes.

£210 for the top version isnt much for something that'll keep going for 5 years tbh

[directhex]

i won't buy it for the time being. when i'm next buying a PC for myself (which is a few years off) i'll get a vista license to go with it, but i shan't upgrade my current system, as i use windows so rarely.

[Clunk]

which one is the media centre type one, or are they all having that kind of thing?

[Sumanji]

I refuse to touch Vista until SP1 is released at least.

XP x64 ftw

[directhex]

I refuse to touch Vista until SP1 is released at least.

XP x64 ftw

i wouldn't recommend xp x64 to people, given the issues with games on it. also worth noting is that "windows xp x64 edition with service pack 1" is the first, raw, buggy release (no SP0 version exists)

[Sumanji]

i wouldn't recommend xp x64 to people, given the issues with games on it. also worth noting is that "windows xp x64 edition with service pack 1" is the first, raw, buggy release (no SP0 version exists)

What issues? All my games run flawlessly only ones I can't run are old skool games with 16-bit installers (only Grim Fandango from my collection).

It's not raw or buggy, since it's based on the SP1 release of Windows Server 2003

...if I had wifi drivers for my crappy Safecom pci card I'd switch in the blink of an eye.

Does it use an Atheros chipset? I think that chipset has generic 64-bit drivers available. If not, defo look into buying a new wireless NIC, they're only like a tenner now

[directhex]

What issues? All my games run flawlessly only ones I can't run are old skool games with 16-bit installers (only Grim Fandango from my collection).

random problems, glitches, bugs, etc, as well as the reasonably large number of games that won't install. take civ4's exponential slowdown on nvidia hardware or random garbage sound on HL2 on Audigy 2 ZS as an example.

[0iD]

I'll probably stick with Linux & XP (32bit). At least till I upgrade my hardware & sp1's been released.