KVR Audio

sOktay · Post by **sOktay** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:15 am

just curious...

cron · Post by **cron** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:51 am

Got Home Premium preinstalled on my new laptop. Both love and hate it.

Hate it because it's a bit paranoid. Even clicking functions within the control panel can bring up 'are you sure you want to run this program' dialogues. It also holds your hand a bit much, oversimplifies things. For instance, the File, Edit, View etc menus are off in all windows by default. It also tries to keep you out of the C drive and make you use the documents folders.

Love it because it just looks so damn nice! Vista has, overnight, killed the OCD performance freak in me. On my XP desktop, I have all eye candy/background processes etc turned off, even though my desktop is much faster than the laptop. Not so in Vista. All visual niceties maxed. Can I just reemphasise how very strange that is for me...

It seems just as stabe as XP too. All my old progs seem to work just fine.

speccyteccy · Post by **speccyteccy** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:02 pm

Got it on a Core2Duo laptop about a month ago and think its great. Wrote a bit more about my experiences here:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=176211

Steven T · Post by **Steven T** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:32 pm

Installed vista on drive D so it's a dual boot option. I tend to preference booting into XP much more. I haven't had any really big issues with vista but there are no drivers for one of my midi keyboards which kind of sucks.

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:50 pm

Some friends have it installed on their laptops, so I've gotten to play with it quite a bit.

No Thanks.

Ja.x · Post by **Ja.x** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:12 pm

I tried it for a little while in relatives' computers (Home Premium). Haven't had the chance to see more in it than XP in a new suit. I know that someday I'll have to move to Vista

, but I'm not in a hurry.

plastique · Post by **plastique** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:09 pm

I have a copy lying around waiting for me to take the plunge, haven't got around to install it (somewhere) yet, as an additonal system.

cron · Post by **cron** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:47 pm

Ja.x wrote:I tried it for a little while in relatives' computers (Home Premium). Haven't had the chance to see more in it than XP in a new suit. I know that someday I'll have to move to Vista , but I'm not in a hurry.

Yeah, let's face it. It's yet another 0.1 update to Windows NT (as has been the case with all Windows versions since Windows 2000). A few analysts have noted that Microsoft should perhaps have been a little braver by breaking backwards compatibility in order to really move things forward (as Apple did with OSX).

Little things do surprise you as you use it having said that. Other than the aforementioned paranoid stuff, I find Vista gets in my way less than XP. I wasn't aware that XP did frustrate me in a myriad of individually inappreciable ways until now.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:53 pm

I tried it on my internet machine just to check it out. Hated everything about it. I already didn't like the direction XP was going in, so forget this. Lasted about an hour, wiped my drive and put XP back. I'm seriously thinking of going back to 2K for both net and DAW and eventually Linux since I hate OSX too.

BLynx · Post by **BLynx** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:01 pm

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sOktay · Post by **sOktay** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:45 am

Thank you all for responding, it's very interesting. I'm in the "waiting for the dust to settle" crowd myself, mainly because I hope that this DRM stuff will end up hurting them and maybe they'll remove it eventually. But the reason I posted the poll was MS's announcement that they made big bucks off of Vista. That's starting to sound like... um... "spin".

tangentmusic · Post by **tangentmusic** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:07 am

oktay_ahiska wrote:the reason I posted the poll was MS's announcement that they made big bucks off of Vista. That's starting to sound like... um... "spin".

not trying to start a argument but..

i dont know about that,you have to rememember they are gonna make money off every laptop/pc that now comes with vista pre installed,also i work in a electronics type shop and a fair percentage of the customers i deal with have upgraded to vista and are in need of more ram and a pokier video card

im 100% pc user but just for the record,i will NEVER use vista,i cant see why you need the "new"features(see mac osx) ,especially on a daw,seems completely pointless to me.

And dont get me started on the background security checks and the down grading of digital signals

sOktay · Post by **sOktay** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:39 am

You're right... I didn't think of that. And I am 100% with you on new features -- I don't want to "experience" my operating system, I want my operating system to get out of the way so I can get some work done. If an operating system "requires" a spiffy graphics card, there's something wrong there. (And I don't want to start an argument either, everything I say is IMHO and IMHO alone :) )

Sam@Megablastic · Post by **Sam@Megablastic** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:40 am

If you want to go quad core, Vista seems to handle it a lot better than Xp, also if you need more than 2gb ram it's useful

morelia · Post by **morelia** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:46 am

Used it at a friend's for about five minutes before the "are you sure you wanna" totally pissed me off. If there is a way around that sort of crap then I guess I'll end up using it when all I use is supported. There is a way to turn that off right?

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