If you don’t have anything nice to say about Windows Vista then don’t bother writing about it. That’s the general consensus on a certain post on eWeek’s Microsoft Watch. One of the writers over there recounted a story in which his sister bought a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista installed that had a Windows Experience Index score of 3.3—considering the laptop cost $1,500, shouldn’t the score be a little higher? As it turns out, the graphics card memory was responsible for the low score. His main point: buying a Vista PC shouldn’t have to be a $2,000+ affair.
And that’s when the fanboys tore him apart.
Again, his main point was just that machines that play nice with Vista shouldn’t cost as much as they do. Then many of the commenters viciously attacked his character. Think, “Dude, you clearly hate Microsoft, so why don’t you go go work for Apple.” So because he voiced his opinion on how Vista might improve, he’s gutted. Heaven forbid you try to be critical.
How Does Windows Vista Rate? [eWeek Microsoft Watch]
Funny that in an article where you poke fun at Windows using a misspelled ‘the’ (teh), the body of your article has a misspelled ‘One’ (On).
Maybe you should have been part of the Vista design team.
Ummmm.
Dude.
Have you read an Apple website lately? When someone says fanboy, I automatically assume they are referring to an Apple apologist.
I got one of the first iterations of the MBP, and were having lots of speaker issues (it was documented quite a bit on the support forums, as well as other sites). It was actually quite ubiquitous.
Of course being “critical” of one Apple’s faulty hardware was a smite to Steve Jobs himself, so the hordes of fanboys galavanted into the arena of apoligistic asininity with their cries of foul. My favorite being an individual that stated Apple knew that most Mac users were audiophiles, and such didn’t want to place quality speakers in the MBP as it would “drive up costs”, since we would want external speakers anyways.
Ummm right.
@Chuck
the teh is intentional…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh
The “one” wasn’t intentional, though. Fixed
I just installed Vista Ultimate on my new Computer. I built it myself, and it’s no laptop, so it cost me around the $1,500 range and it runs Vista fine. (currently only running 1gb of RAM too at the moment, but purchased 3gb…damn mail goes so slow! But the 3gb is included in that $1,500 price)
So even with the current 1gb of RAM, it still runs pretty smooth with all the visual aero-ness applied. I think I’ve got a 4.5 or something.
My computer at work (this one I’m typing on right now) has Vista as well but with 2gb of RAM, has a 5.1.
Anyhoo, I don’t use laptops, I think they’re overpriced for what they offer anyway. So I do kind of agree with the article in that “a Vista PC (laptop) shouldn’t have to be a $2,000+ affair.” because a laptop in general shouldn’t be a $2,000+ affair.
My system specs to run Vista for under $2,000
ASUS P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHZ Processor
3GB Corsair XMS2 RAM
XFX Geforce 8600GTS 256mb PCIe Graphics Card
400GB Western Digital SATA HDD
Also included in my $1,500 price tag is a… 600W Power supply, case, keyboard, another 500GB HDD, lightscribe dvd burner, non-stock heatsink&fan
Is this really news? Some guy writes a critical article of [Microsoft / Apple / Google / etc] and gets ripped by fanboys. “You obviously hate _____,” they write. “How come you never write about the flaws of ________?”
If it was Microsoft itself pushing back, or pressuring the author, that’d be newsworthy. But this is just what happens in the comments of stories: fanboys go crazy.
Microsoft is pressured to create more demanding software in order to fuel new hardware purchases. People running windows XP with a 64 megabyte internal video card will run it just fine. XP’s requirements were outrageous when it first came out too… They have to give people a reason for upgrading their hardware.
I don’t believe in this at all, however it is business. I am sure they could have had all the same features in Vista and perhaps comparable graphics and made it much less demanding. As with XP Vista could be stripped down and made to run smoothly on slighly outdated hardware.
As much as I detest Vista, I remember how I disliked XP the same way when it first came out. When service pack 2 rolls around I’ll upgrade.
I’ve tested 10 Vista notebooks since the launch and anything around 3.0 is fine to run Premium or Ultimate. HOWEVER, the index score is merely a guideline and should not be taken as gospel. You can have the highest-end components possible, but the overall score is determined by whatever the lowest-end component scores–in this case a 3.3 for the notebook’s graphics abilities.
I’ve had Apple fanboys get angry with my simply because I said something good about Vista, without mentioning Apple in any way. I don’t even hate Apple, but because I use PCs they don’t believe me–I MUST hate Apple, and that somehow makes me evil.
By the way, the Apple we see today has not always been. Less than a decade ago, the Macs I encountered were an ugly teal color, ran slower than PCs (did so!), and came with tiny, cramped keyboards and those stupid little round mice that everyone hated. Seems to me the monitor connectors were proprietary as well, forcing us in IT to distinguish “Mac monitors” from “PC monitors.” And there were fanboys even THEN. It sure makes a lot more sense now.
OK, call what you want. But I must point out that Tiger OS 10.4.9 the current OS for the Mac still runs fine on old hardware like G3s and has much of the same features and desktop prettiness as Vista.
Microsoft and “blotaware” is a long term reality. Take a look at what is fast becoming a failure for MS with cable STB software. The only two US customers — Comcast and Verizon have both dropped MS software on their set top boxes as it ran so poorly.
Fact, if you want to run Vista or have too. Pay for high end hardware or pay the performance price. No I am not bashingh MS, just speaking the truth and let the chips fall were ever you want to say they fell!
Everything has its fanboys. Go mention something pro-Microsoft on Slashdot and see what happens.
Everything has its strengths and weaknesses. I have a Vista desktop, an Apple laptop, and my phone system at the office runs Linux (though we are otherwise 99% a Microsoft shop). Everyone will use what works for them, and people just need to get over it.
VISTA SUCKS!!!!!!