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    Vista or XP?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by lonewolf0069, Mar 10, 2008.

  1. lonewolf0069

    lonewolf0069 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a new A215-S7462 Toshiba notebook it came with Windows Vista Home Pre. installed I downgraded to win xp home sp2 cause it seems to work better with xp than vista. Microsoft says they will quit supporting xp soon just like they did with their previous operating systems. So I was just wondering how people felt about this and if anyone knows when the service packs will be coming out to fix alot of the issues that vista has now. I have worked on computers for several years and built several over the years. I also have seen a whole lot of downgrading from vista to xp in this forum so i was just wondering if you guys think vista will get it together soon?
     
    lonewolf0069, Mar 10, 2008
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    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    Vista SP1 comes out at the end of march. If you want it early there is a registry hack thread floating around here. We don't really know when MS will dump support for XP.
     
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    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    SP1 actually slows down the performance of Vista, if you pm me i can send you dozens of benchmarks. When tested XP SP3 (also due in march) against Vista SP1, XP was MORE THAN TWICE as fast as Vista.

    As for MS not supporting XP anymore that will not happen. Seeing as MOST (as in a HUGE) amount of companies still rely on XP. They were rumored to have wanted to switch after the release of SP1 for Vista, but most have already heard of the failure of SP1 and have decided to continue with XP. It is impossible for Microsoft to stop supporting it until AT LEAST Windows 7 (due in 2009 but with an 13 month delay, originally 18 month delay until employees were taken from the Vista improvement projects)
     
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    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Vista works fine for me, but I think XP support will be around for quite a while.
     
    pixelot, Mar 10, 2008
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