I never thought I would say this
jewel June 13th, 2009
But I don’t hate using Vista. I really thought I would because the couple Vista machines I had to do stuff with at work were absolutely painful to deal with. But, the machine I just bought a couple weeks ago is a much more robust system the ones at work, so, even though Vista is a resource hog, it can handle it and then some. I did turn off the annoying “are you sure?” messages on day two, though, because seeing those messages every single time I would go to do something was making me feel violent urges. So far, though, that’s the only thing I’ve outright hated.
I like the pretty interface (Aero) and as long as the machine can handle it, it doesn’t slow things down. I love the gadget dock, too and even added a gadget to monitor my memory and CPU usage (and yeah, I know that both the dock and the usage monitor do contribute to the memory usage. I’m ok with that). Oh, I should mention that I am using the 64 bit version of Vista. I doubt I would be writing this post about the 32 bit version simply because Vista is a resource hog and only having a max of 4GB of memory wouldn’t exactly leave a whole lot for other things.
Here are the hardware specs of the new machine:
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
- 8 GB Tri Channel RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
- 750 GB Hard Disk
- 700W Power Supply
It’s a DELL Studio XPS from Dell Outlet, to which I added 6 GB RAM, the kick ass video card and the power supply. I’m quite happy with it. It was really time to buy a new machine, my 3+ year old laptop has been having problems for about the past year and was getting more and more frustrating to use. I decided to go back to a desktop system for 2 reasons:
- Ease of hardware maintenence — it’s much easier to upgrade and fix desktop systems
- I can finally have a nice, big monitor — I bought a 23″ widescreen HD Acer monitor with 1920X1080 resolution
The past week I hve spent a good bit of time playing Sacred 2 with the graphics on high and the PhysX on. It’s beautiful.
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