OMFG Vista is soooooo expensive!!!!!!!

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36686

I know it's been posted before but where are all the idiots who were bleating on about how expensive Vista is? As myself and a lot of others predicted Vista has come out at about the same price as XP OEM copies were selling for. Though I would never buy a retail edition of an OS I applaud Microsoft for this as people who are stupid enough not to buy OEM should be stung for 3 times what we would pay for Vista.

Prices for Vista
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/prod [...] 3&catid=20
Prices for XP
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/sear [...] &string=xp

Very similar huh?

Now we can come down on anyone who mentions the price of Vista like a tonne of bricks.

No you're forgetting that you don't know anything. My old P4 2.8 which my parents now have is now 3 years old and runs Vista just fine and my g/f's very inexpensive AMD 64 300+ with 512mb of RAM runs Vista very well too. Neither of these PC's is exceptionally costly. Stop spreading your lies and BS around on this forum and get a life. Stop making up your own truth and get a life.

Both of you play nice, or no cookies for either of you.

Listen you can read n00bish sites or you can go out and experience it for youself. I'm running Vista right now on only 512Mb of ram and it's running very smoothly. I regularly play Day of Defeat: Source on it and it performs quite well.

Some people just don't want to pay money for something they can get for free without going into a shop and stealing it. If I could download a 8800 GTX for free I damn well would. But I can't so I won't. I downloaded Vista only because it's not out yet. When it's released to the general public I'll buy it and still have XP on another hard drive because it's just moronic to switch over fully to a brand new OS. When you consider how often you use your PC and for how long you'll use your OS the money spent on an OEM copy of Vista is not that much at all. I mean it's less than what a lot of people on graphics cards. Or if you look at it the way a lot of people do. One less drink in the pub every week or month would pay for Vista over it's lifetime. Things cost money. Deal with it.

You're sure eh? Well I'm running Vista Ultimate Edition with Aeroglass enabled on the following machine.

AMD 64 3000+
MSI Neo4
512mb of generic DDR400
128mb X300
36Gb Raptor

Machine gives a Performance Index of 2.2

Processor 3.8
Memory 2.9
Graphics 2.2
Gaming Graphics 3.2
Primary HDD 5.3

So hardly the biggest and baddest machine out there and it runs Vista with Aeroglass enabled, runs Office 2007 Beta and performs just as well as XP on the same machine (or near enough) in games.

Stop being like every other person on the internet and saying that Vista requires some kind of supercomputer to run because it doesn't.

If you knew anything you'd know that OS's don't get cheaper until they become totally outdated. If memory serves me correctly the price for XP has not changed at all in the time it's been out and if it has it's been very little.

I don't care about Dell. Dell tell people what they want. Dell tell people that Pentium D's are great processors. If Dell told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?

I'm not going to lie and say that I think 512mb and a 3000+ is the best configuration for Vista because it's not but it's adequate for the needs of 90% of people out there. When I build my own PC soonish it's going to have at least 2Gb of RAM, an E6600 and an X1950 Pro. A far better machine for Vista but that doesn't mean this one is useless. Far from it.

You're sure eh? Well I'm running Vista Ultimate Edition with Aeroglass enabled on the following machine.

AMD 64 3000+
MSI Neo4
512mb of generic DDR400
128mb X300
36Gb Raptor

Machine gives a Performance Index of 2.2

Processor 3.8
Memory 2.9
Graphics 2.2
Gaming Graphics 3.2
Primary HDD 5.3

So hardly the biggest and baddest machine out there and it runs Vista with Aeroglass enabled, runs Office 2007 Beta and performs just as well as XP on the same machine (or near enough) in games.

Stop being like every other person on the internet and saying that Vista requires some kind of supercomputer to run because it doesn't.

If you knew anything you'd know that OS's don't get cheaper until they become totally outdated. If memory serves me correctly the price for XP has not changed at all in the time it's been out and if it has it's been very little.

I don't care about Dell. Dell tell people what they want. Dell tell people that Pentium D's are great processors. If Dell told you to jump off a cliff would you do it?

I'm not going to lie and say that I think 512mb and a 3000+ is the best configuration for Vista because it's not but it's adequate for the needs of 90% of people out there. When I build my own PC soonish it's going to have at least 2Gb of RAM, an E6600 and an X1950 Pro. A far better machine for Vista but that doesn't mean this one is useless. Far from it.


Well I'll be.... screw Microsoft for telling us to get 2GB's of ram then...cause you know...you are my hero and you are totally right...Ill take back all the words I've told you and from now on I will believe every word you say.......you are great man...thanks for teaching me computing heaven...my next system will be one of yours. All people should have you as our main teacher....I think it would be great. And yes you are right....windows Vista is unbelievably cheap....how could I ever have doubted you. Sorry man for being such a prick. You were right all along. Forget about google and all the sites I've been reading reviews at with all their bull post about Vista needing 2GB etc...they are just all noob sites. You were right all along. You and your computer says it all man.

ps: btw...do you like skinny body and big unnatural American boobie females too?

WTF? I bet you like 3ft tall midgets who have one leg bigger than the other. WTf does my taste in women have to do with Vista????????????

Stop being a retard and actually try Vista or stfu. I tried a Vista CTP earlier this year and it ran like a dog on a 2.8Ghz P4 with a gig of ram then I ran RC1 on both that PC and my g/f's 3000+ with only 512Mb of ram and it ran well on both.

A lot of websites out there simply post what they've heard and what they think will happen. There are a few sites like winsupersite which actually do in depth tests but a lot of them simply post opinion. If that's your sort of thing go to another forum. On this forum we're interested in fact and experience. Obviously you're not interested in either......

If you look at the system specs for a machine to be able to run Aero it doesn't say anything about 2Gb of ram being a minimum spec.

The fact is... Vista runs good on 512 Ram... But XP runs so much better. I just need the OS to let me interact with my hardware. So I get to windows and then I ask for a game or an Iexplore or winamp or whatever. I don't need an OS taking all my ram just to do that.

If Vista is cheap or not, it depends on each of us. For me it's expensive, like half my monthly payment.

Also, check this out. I wanna see how low it can get for Vista.

http://www.winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini_eng.htm