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10/23/09
Reason #8: You'll have to peel this sticker off our computer. #windowsxp
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10/23/09
i run an anemic old dell laptop. 16GB for OS install on a 30GB HDD will not fly, not to mention the insufficient 512MB of RAM. The cost of upgrading components and buying W7 would meet or exceed the cost of a new laptop with better components and W7 already installed.
9. There's no TinyW7 yet. Wait for cruft removal. #windowsxp
10/25/09
1. Your computer doesn't meet the minimum system requirements for Windows 7 by a long shot. That is the -only- reason you shouldn't be upgrading.
2. Tiny[windows version here] installs are the worst thing ever. They skim off extra space by removing services that they claim aren't important or affect performance. They are a technician nightmare and generally terrible for your PC. #windowsxp
10/23/09
2) if you put your OS on it's own partition, programs on another, and, data on a third, 99% of ALL upgrading issues vanish #windowsxp
10/23/09
2. I never seen anyone who just lost its CD-key, unless if this someone is a sloppy one.
"Do you have all of your install discs handy?". Seriously Frocci, do you throw away your disks after install them?
And the downloadable exes will be with your backup.
3. Thats debatable. Not everyone here uses the PC like our mothers...some of us (me for example) do Photoshop, Video Editing, 3D modeling and gaming.
4. No arguing on that one.
5. I agree that being an early adopter is risky, but is not a real reason to stick with XP.
6. Still not a real reason to stick with XP. Its just a reason to not be an early adopter.
7. Not always you have a pre installed copy of windows on your new PC. If you are a hardcore PC user, you will build your own PC instead of buying a Dell.
And since when installing an OS is risky? I never heard of anyone who fried his PC over an OS installation. #windowsxp
10/23/09
1. Hardly any average user performs proper backups. $100 says you could call 100 random people in the phone book and more than 50% will not know what you are talking about or don't do one.
2. People never store their stuff properly, and somehow lose CD Keys that were printed on their computer.
3. Students, parents, and (most)women, make up more computer users than males who do heavy work and play video games.
7. Yes installing an OS can be risky, as pointed out by the other reasons in the article. No one said it could fry a machine.
Gizmodo isn't only catered to the hardcore nerds who do all of these things.... as somewhat apparent from the article. It also exists for the sluts and perverts as seen by some articles last week.
@Odin, @SewerShark: go tell your mom or dad, or best friends, or your boss at work that they are lazy and cheap and worthless. I'm sure they all don't run backups.
It isn't too difficult to do do it these days, but many people just don't know. Also, they obviously all run Windows and don't have an easy to use solution for backing up software to an external drive...
...BAM! #windowsxp
10/23/09
1. The average user usually don't even know how to install an OS and ask for someone who knows.
2. As I said, people are careless. No excuses there.
3. Yeah, but I never said that ALL users do heavy work. I said that #3 was DEBATABLE.
7. The only risk on installing an OS is that you may have to do it again. And that is true to any OS.
@bobman1235:
I'm a foreigner, so what? Sue me for improper use of the english language.
@Kaisum: Just because is a lot, it means it is ok?
@ALL: People, if you don't take care of your stuff, you are sloppy, the truth hurts, but is still the truth. Don't blame an OS if you don't do backups or lost your CD keys. #windowsxp
10/23/09
Fun story: Me and my housemate last year used to rip our other housemate for running Vista and used to blame everything that went wrong with his PC on his choice of OS. He'd of course defend it because if he didn't he'd feel the fool for admitting that he installed a pile of ass. He recently installed Win7 and grudgingly admitted that it fixed all the problems he had with his computer.
As for me I'm still running XP and will be until I get a new machine. #windowsxp
10/23/09
When i moved to linux, I bought a new hard drive and took out the old one with XP on it.
Why?
Because it is cheaper for me to get a new drive than lose a system that is working.
OS and all the software on it is your workshop
and why throw a way a good wrench ? #windowsxp
10/23/09
10/23/09
9. OpenGL bugs all over the place with most of the major compositing softwares and some 3D ones too, either because GPU drivers are immature at this point or because MS just hates OpenGL and does everything to force developers on top of DirectX. #windowsxp
10/23/09
1. Almost every benchmark comparing XP and Windows 7 on modern hardware (and not super high-end i7 processors with 12gb of RAM, either) shows Windows 7 having a performance edge over XP.
2. Uh, what? I use OpenGL based modeling applications and games all the time no problem. Try actually updating your drivers instead of using the release that comes on the disc. Developers use DirectX because it's easier to develop for, not because Microsoft is "forcing" it on them. #windowsxp
10/23/09
My drivers are well up to date, but there were nothing but beta flagged ones during the Win7 beta and RC1 period. What I meant by the forcing thing is that on Vista at the beginning you had to disable the 3D acceleration from windowing to run OpenGL applications, don't know if that's the case anymore, didn't seem to be with Win7. About the problematic software, for example Fusion crashed each and every time I opened anything to the viewport and Toxik just bugged all over the screen. Other applications, like 3Ds Max or Maya just have poor performance even in Direct3D modes. Win7 performance is about on par with Vista, they just run much less polygons on screen than on XP x64. #windowsxp
10/23/09
I do 33% of my work in 3ds Max and Maya, the other 66% being divided up between After Effects and then Final Cut Pro on my Mac. You're full of it. #windowsxp
10/23/09
I do professional compositing and 3D myself too, every single Windows workstation we have at work is Windows XP Pro x64 on it because of the memory limit.
I notice you have rather aggressive attitude towards this issue, care to elaborate why? #windowsxp
10/23/09
10/27/09
10/27/09
Especially chipset drivers, nothing can make your computer worse than bad chipset drivers.
Its just there is a good amount of double talk going on, its very similar to the vista launch. I personally am all for win7 being good enough that in about 6 months i can upgrade our whole staff to it, except for the poor lowly estimators who are using software that costs 15 grand and has to run in win98 emu mode. #windowsxp
10/22/09
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10/23/09
But really, complaining about RAM in this day and age is ridiculous. My parents got 3gb of RAM in their laptop (with a core 2 duo) and the entire thing was $700. #windowsxp
10/23/09
10/22/09
1) You're lazy. You don't already have backups of your important data because you're lazy. Reinstalling, updating, and keeping your programs up to date is too much work for you because... you're lazy.
2) You're unorganized. You don't keep all your install discs and software keys in one convenient location like of those CD wallet things. You don't save downloaded program executables to their own directory because you're unorganized, and you're too lazy to re-download them.
3) You haven't changed. You're still doing the same things on your computer you've been doing since win9x and were somehow conned into buying XP when the old computer kicked the bucket, or software compatibility forced you to upgrade. Why make it easy this time around when it can be just as painful and time consuming as the last time?
4) You're poor. If you weren't spending all your money on beer and cigarettes, maybe you'd think differently, but just wait until the current box overheats and dies after the heatsink fan gets too clogged with dust and nicotine gunk before being forced to upgrade when you buckle down and buy a new computer from walmart.
5) You're lazy. And afraid of bugs... because you're lazy and you don't back up your data. So why upgrade now when you can just reinforce your laziness by procrastinating, not backing up data, and waiting until SP1 'gets it right'.
6) You're lazy. Microsoft said they'll support XP at least until 2014, and damned if you won't keep using it until then, barring your computer taking a dirtnap. You already skipped Vista, and who needs 7 when 8 will be out presumably before 2014?
7) You're lazy. It's hard enough to bend over and hit the power button as it is, what with those cushioned arms on your chair, and your gut getting in the way, but installing an operating system? That sounds like... work... or something else unpleasant. Besides, your current computer isn't going to last forever; eventually it'll die a horrible death, probably taking all your precious data with it and forcing you to upgrade to a new computer, reinstall all that software you can never find the discs for, and download a bunch of new installers.
All right, are we clear on that? #windowsxp
10/22/09
10/22/09
Frucci, invest some time and film a cheesy PSA commercial to go a long with this. #windowsxp
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