Quote: "UAC has become a minor annoyance"
proper pain sometimes, especially when you have alot going on so it decides to just sit there with the screen dimmed while it waits for the message queue to catch up.
this said I totally love the new level of control you have over programs and user accounts with it.
sure *nix systems have had most of these for a while and tbh so has windows, but it's always been a pain to set it all up previously. now you can set everything directly with admin control on everything.
Quote: "We were searching for a file on a mac, and right as we type the first so letters, the mac just "BAM!" came up with results."
If you install Vista on a HDD with alot of stuff already, or you're accessing a drive it hasn't used before (this is particularly noticable moving from NT5.x) then the search system does take about 30seconds to find everything you might want.
Once the indexing has been set for each file though it's much quicker. Certainly not as quick as MacOSX tbh, however unlike OSX Vista will (by default, but can be turned off) also search all compressed (zip/cab) and documents for what you've searched for.
So performance wise, not so amazing as you'd hope compared to the competition but much more useful.
Quote: "vista wont let you upgrade on 256 ram, it has to be 512 min, i know cos my friend was complaining about how he has to buy a load of new ram to install it."
The installer won't let you upgrade or clean install with the default settings on 256MB RAM. It is possible though to change them and use it on as little as 128MB from what I've heard.
Personally I'm running on 256MB for the moment (see attachment), but despite not really having much slow-down or such will be adding some more when I go up to see my brother again and take back my computer.
There are some obvious copying of features and aspects from Linux and MacOSX, but personally I find this as a good thing. Nothing better than being able to work like I can on a Mac and also be able to run all of my Windows software that I find it difficult to live without. Something I like is unlike on the other OSs where they mimic features Windows has had in the past, you're not left feeling "hey this is trying to do the same job, but not quite as well", everything in Vista just feels very polished.
If Apple actually pushed forward initiatives for developers to get more games and general software on the platform now they support the x86 processor, we could see a good choice of which OS we want to use going on. Unfortunately this just isn't the case, and Microsoft have completely left them to the PPU realm for so long. Now Mac to me is becomming more of a label, than something that provides on better hardware for the job to the graphics industry.
Seriously has anyone noticed any difference in performance between Photoshop CS or Maya on Windows XP and MacOSX86? Cause I've been trying my best to see why a Mac is worth the extra few hundred bucks, and when Vista's OpenGL drivers start bringing Maya to that platform I honestly won't see any need for a Mac anymore.
