Comments on: Newegg ruins Windows Vista

By: john doe

john doe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:40:36 +0000

For one ur an IDIOT. I really beleive u do not know what the hell ur talking about….HAHAHAHHAAHAHA You must be getting alot of the error code: ID10T error.

By: MarvinK

MarvinK — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:52:24 +0000

I know I’m a little late–but I don’t think their recommendations (aside from hard drive) are too ridiculous. In fact, I would put 2GB on the better and 4GB on the best. It is probably less critical if you’re building your own from Newegg, since you don’t have so many craplets to weed out (which most non-Newegg users won’t bother doing).

By: Mercury

Mercury — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:01:30 +0000

What’s wrong with slicing images from Photoshop and standard CSS for doing a website? Don’t just judge it by that…consider the work environment that so many changes and demands in last minute that makes this way faster and deliver the project on time.

By: Elistas

Elistas — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:09:19 +0000

I’m running Vista on an AthlonXP 2200+ (1.8 GHz for you Intel users out there) with a gig of RAM and an old GeForce4 video card and it runs amazingly well. I was shocked when I first installed it because I kept hearing people say things like “yoo n33d s s00per cr4y g1bs0n c0mput3r t0 u$E V15t4!@$#@$Q#@’

By: foolala

foolala — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:27:30 +0000

MS’s min requirement is ok if you only do one thing at once. Newegg’s an great place to shop for hardware, if you know nothing about hardware you wouldn’t end up there to buy stuff.

I’m already tired of looking at all the eye candy in vista… wastes my computer resources fading in and out.

The Newegg page isn’t that pretty and well done.. but then again.. if you look at Vista.. it’s not all ready for prime time… still lots of flaws.

Besides.. MS should care more about making a better OS than nicer marketing… they got a monopoly on the market already… and people buying new computers are forced to use vista… not even an option (back then there was option for xp or win 2000)!

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:47:12 +0000

@Georgeous George: Shame, I know absolutely nothing about hardware or computers. I’m very afraid of technology. I should just stop writing.

By: Georgeous George

Georgeous George — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:16:27 +0000

I wonder if the author of this article has every purchased anything from Newegg. Almost everybody I know considers Newegg to be the best place to shop for computer enthusiasts. If you know anything about computer hardware, then you’ll know that the recommend specs by Newegg are pretty much standard in order to really experience Vista (except for Basic). Is this considered Sneaky or just considered IGNORANCE from the author?

I’m surprised that somebody this ignorant is allowed to publish on the web.
I noticed in your profile that Long Zheng is “deathly afraid of technology”. Probably not the most qualified person to be writing an article on Vista.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:44:51 +0000

I’m running Vista on a 1GHz 512MB RAM 4 year old HP tablet pc. Runs fine, about same as XP. Runs even better with ready boost.

By: jnk

jnk — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:48:53 +0000

As far as I know, they are not allowed to use logos and artwork from Microsoft. So it would be better if they stopped it as soon as possible. It looks so terrible.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:58:56 +0000

I’ve tried Vista on an Athlon XP 3200+ with 1GB of RAM, and I found pretty sluggy when compared to XP. I didn’t run precise tests, but it did take almost an hour to unzip a 100MB file (!) on Vista, while the same operation takes usually around 10 minutes on XP. Now, I bet there’s something wrong with Vista’s unzip code, but still. Also, with 1GB you can’t have many apps open without swapping all the time. Now, if you just have a web browser up, I guess you don’t care that much.

A 250 GB hard drive costs about $70 nowadays, while a 40 GB one costs around $40. If you ask me, I’d recommend my friends to buy a 250 GB HD for any purpose, not just Vista… Buying a 40 GB hard drive is ludicrous, way to expensive ($ per GB).

Also, a gig of RAM is about $90 today. Why would you want to see your $200 Vista swap virtual memory all the time to save a measly $80 in hardware? Vista uses around 500MB to 700MB on startup, that doesn’t leave you much to work with. But then again, I’m a developer, so maybe if you’re only browsing the web 99% of the time on your computer, what I say here is irrelevant…