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I think this sums things up nicely. also the panasonic that they link in that article, I used one two years ago. they are fucking radical.

i'm also about to make a post on my oppinions of physical media versus digital delivery.

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Vista is only 10 days shy of being out for 1 year. for that short amount of time, I think its doing pretty fine. with Vista in its current (initial) form, there are more degrees of seperation between it and XP then there was XP and 2000. especially if you install a 64 bit Vista, which any full owners of home premium or up also have a license for.

when XP first came out, people were wondering why they needed it instead of windows 2000. you could actually use many windows 2000 drivers for XP because they were so similar. and then SP1 hit, and we started to see some degrees of separation, started to "get" XP. and when SP2 finally hit, it was like you just installed a whole new OS.

Vista already is a whole new OS. sure, its got some little negative quirks, wierd performance things like copying large amounts of files, the volume controls taking forever to access sometimes, etc. EVERYTHING has its own icon. but many small things about it make it quite different from XP, and for the better. every new OS uses more ram, more resources. but Vista does a pretty nice job of only doing that when you are using Vista, and not other programs. for all of the extra ram that it uses, its application and game performance is right with XP. sometimes a lot better. and yes, sometimes a little bit worse, but not much worse. not something you'd notice without a benchmark. and this time, most of those extra resources go into making your computer experience snappier and more transparent. and it works. it made my single core Athlon 64 feel 500mhz faster. and now that I have a dual core, i'm pretty much wating for nothing. even on intial boot. once I login, i'm using Vista. not wating for it to load for another 30 seconds to a minute. actually, I do have to wait about 10 seconds, but that's because Avast starts up and does its intial scan and grabbing control of things.

and regarding the UAC or whatever that prompts you for admin actions and whatnot. its not really annoying to me, and I've had way less problems with it than people scream about on the internet. the only real problem I've had with it is Bitcomet won't save any configuration settings unless I "run as admin"