[geeks] Vista on a test PC

[Lionel Peterson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Vista on a test PC


> On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 03:33:43PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
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>> Bill, was your problem *massive* slowness (in an SS/5-110 kind of way), 
>> or
>> in a "nat as snappy as I'd expect, but workable for some" kind of way???
>
> "Workable, but you can tell the OS eyecandy is taking up way too much CPU,
> and for someone used to XP, you can REALLY tell that this is a beta"

What I'm seeing is odd jerkiness during simple tasks (playing a video file 
from HD, etc.) - to me it seems like the debugging is "on" in the 
software...

Years ago the graphics card was the vital link in a Windows PC (as nearly 
all operations funneled through the graphics interface), and while the 
Radeon X300 is a reasonable graphics adapter, I may try something nicer to 
eliminate it as a problem.

I do plan to run this for a while, as the install software I have is for 
Vista Ultimate, which includes all of Media Center - I'm going to try a TV 
capture card and play with that a bit before I flatten the system and make 
it a server...

Lionel