7/31/2005 1:44:41 AM

its just as slow as the longhorn build, but MUCH more stable.

And im runnin it on my 3yr old celery laptop, so i cant see the beautiful DWM Aero Glass stuff

7/31/2005 2:30:43 AM

someone hook me up with the beta

7/31/2005 11:21:46 AM

Its the slow speed that got me.

Shouldnt have been that slow on a p4 3.4, 1gig

7/31/2005 1:33:56 PM

whistler beta 1 was unusable

im wondering if its worth getting beta 1 now or waiting for beta2.

7/31/2005 1:35:13 PM

prolly better off waiting.

At best, the UI for Beta 1 is unpolished and IE7 is a poor interpretation of what a browser needs to look like these days.

7/31/2005 1:48:22 PM

somebody hook me up with a beta!!

8/1/2005 1:14:06 PM

Quote :

"Its the slow speed that got me."

beta builds have debug code in them that slows down overall peformance.

drivers haven't been released to optimize the full benefits of vista or longhorn.

you're gonna have to wait till it's released in 2006...

8/1/2005 2:38:08 PM

This wasn't related to debug code.

It was probably related to unsupported hardware on my computer.

All accounts from reviews on the internet have Beta 1 running almost as fast as XP.

Regardless, what I saw when I did load the new shell was a slightly improved windows environment and nothing worth upgrading for.

I'll reserve all judgement until Beta II.

8/1/2005 3:13:45 PM

from what we know about the Beta now and what the plans for Vista will be, will it be even worth it to upgrade from XP to this? like goin from 98 to 2000 was, i think, a big improvement and just overall a big step. will the transition from XP to Vista be the same or no?

8/1/2005 3:16:50 PM

Not so much.

WinFS is being back ported to XP along with IE7.

However, by SP2, I think Vista will be a very very competent OS.

8/1/2005 3:19:53 PM

in 2008

8/1/2005 3:49:03 PM

ya no kiddin

8/1/2005 3:58:43 PM

i like it a lot, and doesn't run so bad on my a64 w/ 6600gt

but isn't one of the requirements (for the final build) a dual-core cpu?

8/1/2005 6:49:35 PM

btw, the "2-second hibernate" right now is more like "200 seconds"

8/1/2005 10:54:39 PM

this makes me laugh... fighting piracy... ha

Quote :

"Hackers found a way around Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy system last week, only a day after the system went into effect. To carry out the hack, users simply needed to insert the following line into Explorer's address bar before the WGA authentication check was carried out: javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')"

8/1/2005 11:25:26 PM