Comments on: Apple Mac Leopard or Microsoft Windows Vista? You decide. http://www.techronnati.com/blog/reviews/software-reviews/apple-mac-leopard-or-microsoft-windows-vista-you-decide/ When a professional programmer becomes an avid writer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:46:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: techronnati http://www.techronnati.com/blog/reviews/software-reviews/apple-mac-leopard-or-microsoft-windows-vista-you-decide/comment-page-1/#comment-35 techronnati Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:37:39 +0000 http://techronnati.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-35 Wow Thanks talksmart!!!!... Hope everyone would vote for me =)) Wow Thanks talksmart!!!!… Hope everyone would vote for me =))

]]> By: techronnati http://www.techronnati.com/blog/reviews/software-reviews/apple-mac-leopard-or-microsoft-windows-vista-you-decide/comment-page-1/#comment-32 techronnati Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:36:58 +0000 http://techronnati.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-32 Hi Jaffer Haider, Thanks for dropping by. Hmm, having said that all i think you stay put with windows xp professional.... primarily because, its safe, stable and most of all secure plus the fact that most of the gadgets and peripherals around are still working around with compatibility issues with their product against vista. Even here in the office where i use to work, Windows Vista is still not the word of mouth.... and i think this would probably take a little while for them to decide because as you say... compatibility issues. Well actually i am working with 2 different OS. One is Windows XP Professional SP2 at the office, another one is windows Vista Ultimate. Yep i have the ultimate package... just got it at the discounted price. What i did was... i migrated my Toshiba laptop.. from XP-> to Vista Ultimate. (i got my laptop with installed xp professional - then its vista compatible as well so i thought upgrading it). i tell you! It was horrible! I thought meeting the minimum requirements would be enough for the upgrade but it was NOT! i used to start from 512 MB RAM then i purchased another 2GB RAM. The performance improved dramatically. But as i evaluate it having 2.5 GB RAM (total RAM i got in my laptop), still windows vista ultimate is slow especially the <strong> copy and paste utility </strong> function. It's really memory eater + compatibility issues sucks all the time! Probably around 3GB RAM or 4GB RAM would add up speed performance. But i'll probably stay with this resource (2.5GB) or probably use my windows XP Prof at the office to work on my other projects or uninstall some programs that i dont use anymore- i have almost all the needed programs for web and database developer. But to conclude it, vista ultimate is just ok for me... - nothing much impressive... maybe the windows aero thing (?) or some cool cosmetic effects (?),layout + some new features like windows ready (using USB to add more memory) + Reliability and Performance check feature but if you are not really into those then stay put with windows XP Prof. Besides if your just after the effects,layout cosmetics and side bars then there's the WIndows transformation program for XP. You can actually download that for free. You see comparing it with windows xp prof, windows vista is not yet stable pls see this article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Windows-Vista-Not-as-Stable-as-Windows-XP-54357.shtml ... so maybe when the market is saturated already thats the perfect time to migrate for windows Vista... but only time can tell this...let us do digging, researching, knowing the trend and seeing the progress on this matter. I'm also monitoring this little by little as am testing my applications side by side with windows XP and Vista simultaneously (only if i have time to test them separately hehe.. its quite tedious you know =P. But this is the sacrifice i have to make having Vista =C ) I havent tried the Ultimate SP1 update yet but i wonder if that would have an effect or not. Oh by the way, there's windows XP Prof sp 3 available.. maybe you can try that for now =) Hi Jaffer Haider,
Thanks for dropping by. Hmm, having said that all i think you stay put with windows xp professional…. primarily because, its safe, stable and most of all secure plus the fact that most of the gadgets and peripherals around are still working around with compatibility issues with their product against vista. Even here in the office where i use to work, Windows Vista is still not the word of mouth…. and i think this would probably take a little while for them to decide because as you say… compatibility issues.

Well actually i am working with 2 different OS. One is Windows XP Professional SP2 at the office, another one is windows Vista Ultimate. Yep i have the ultimate package… just got it at the discounted price. What i did was… i migrated my Toshiba laptop.. from XP-> to Vista Ultimate. (i got my laptop with installed xp professional – then its vista compatible as well so i thought upgrading it). i tell you! It was horrible! I thought meeting the minimum requirements would be enough for the upgrade but it was NOT! i used to start from 512 MB RAM then i purchased another 2GB RAM. The performance improved dramatically. But as i evaluate it having 2.5 GB RAM (total RAM i got in my laptop), still windows vista ultimate is slow especially the copy and paste utility function. It’s really memory eater + compatibility issues sucks all the time! Probably around 3GB RAM or 4GB RAM would add up speed performance. But i’ll probably stay with this resource (2.5GB) or probably use my windows XP Prof at the office to work on my other projects or uninstall some programs that i dont use anymore- i have almost all the needed programs for web and database developer. But to conclude it, vista ultimate is just ok for me… – nothing much impressive… maybe the windows aero thing (?) or some cool cosmetic effects (?),layout + some new features like windows ready (using USB to add more memory) + Reliability and Performance check feature but if you are not really into those then stay put with windows XP Prof. Besides if your just after the effects,layout cosmetics and side bars then there’s the WIndows transformation program for XP. You can actually download that for free. You see comparing it with windows xp prof, windows vista is not yet stable pls see this article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Windows-Vista-Not-as-Stable-as-Windows-XP-54357.shtml … so maybe when the market is saturated already thats the perfect time to migrate for windows Vista… but only time can tell this…let us do digging, researching, knowing the trend and seeing the progress on this matter. I’m also monitoring this little by little as am testing my applications side by side with windows XP and Vista simultaneously (only if i have time to test them separately hehe.. its quite tedious you know =P. But this is the sacrifice i have to make having Vista =C )

I havent tried the Ultimate SP1 update yet but i wonder if that would have an effect or not.

Oh by the way, there’s windows XP Prof sp 3 available.. maybe you can try that for now =)

]]> By: talksmart http://www.techronnati.com/blog/reviews/software-reviews/apple-mac-leopard-or-microsoft-windows-vista-you-decide/comment-page-1/#comment-34 talksmart Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:33:04 +0000 http://techronnati.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-34 Hi. This blog is nominated for the Filipino Blog of the Week awards (week 112). Please visit the site and vote :-) Hi. This blog is nominated for the Filipino Blog of the Week awards (week 112). Please visit the site and vote :-)

]]> By: Jaffer Haider http://www.techronnati.com/blog/reviews/software-reviews/apple-mac-leopard-or-microsoft-windows-vista-you-decide/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Jaffer Haider Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:16:19 +0000 http://techronnati.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-33 Nice roundup. I'm having to decide between Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Home Premium these days (as my laptop came with XP Home, and I'm a web dev, so Home won't work for me). After researching a lot online, I think I'm going to stick with Windows XP. Even though my laptop's hardware is 100% compatible with Vista, I still don't want to risk application compatibility, and Vista is a resource hog when compared to XP. I really wish Vista had been slightly better, because I'm not too happy about buying XP, since it's not going to be supported by Microsoft in the near future. What would you recommend? Nice roundup. I’m having to decide between Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Home Premium these days (as my laptop came with XP Home, and I’m a web dev, so Home won’t work for me).

After researching a lot online, I think I’m going to stick with Windows XP. Even though my laptop’s hardware is 100% compatible with Vista, I still don’t want to risk application compatibility, and Vista is a resource hog when compared to XP. I really wish Vista had been slightly better, because I’m not too happy about buying XP, since it’s not going to be supported by Microsoft in the near future.

What would you recommend?

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