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camrachI
06-07-2006, 04:59 PM
So has anyone tried the Beta II. I couldn't even get Beta I to install on my pc. Now I got beta II and it's quite frankly put, a travesty. I can see why MS pushed back the project, they needed to, badly.

I know it's a beta, but these are some of the problems I ran into.
Just for the record I'm on a 4200+/4GB ram/7900GT

It takes 8 - 10 minutes to boot.
It runs slower than windows XP
VERY, VERY, VERY unstable. I opened WMP and system crashed. I opened IE and system crashed.


I have'nt ran a game on it yet, as I don't have any. I don't expect to see anything new or fancy, especially in terms of performace as DX10 isn't attainable.

All in all, I am not impressed at all. This is MS' OS of the future, and it's still not able to compete with Apple's OSX which has been out for years now. Aside from that, Leopard is just around the corner. As far as I'm concerned, MS can squash vista completely and rebuild from the ground up, with Apple in mind. And this time, not in mind, in terms of riding thier jock as far as cosmetics is concerned. Well atleast, not in terms of that alone :D

richjob
06-23-2006, 08:30 PM
Windows OS betas? Indeed, a brave man.

Hidden
06-23-2006, 09:06 PM
May the force be with you

Paradoxxx
06-23-2006, 11:19 PM
We got it at work, my bosses first impression was
"They copying MAC"

opium
06-24-2006, 12:00 AM
strange i did not had any problems installing vista, it actually ran well on my systems, yes systems

1. spoilt laptop - Intel P M 1.73 1GB ram GF 6600 go 64mb 60GB hdd

aero did not work for him because of the video card drivers other than that it ran pretty much stable and good. boots within 1 min.

2. my SOHO - AMD SD 3700+ 1gb ram 80GB hdd onboard video asus mobo on 6150 chipset

aero worked here and it was extactly the same ting, stable and no issues boot in 20secs

3. my laptop - AMD ML-30 1.6ghz 1.5gb ram 100gb hdd x700 video 64mb

aero worked here and stable also, no crashes, left it on for days

i did not test it on my main pc, from 3 computers have the same stability and normal boot times a xp, i did not tink MS had problems with this beta