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1. Comment - Amazon Begins Selling Windows Vista

   (Aug 31, 2006 - 8:33 AM)

   I'm tired of the M$FT price gouging. Maybe I'd consider buying vista if there was hope that inside of the first year there wouldn't be 300 security fixes or vulnerabilities discovered.
   
   I have this feeling that DX10 won't be available for WinXP, which bothers me. IE7 was fun to play around with, I only wish the beta didn't overwrite IE6 (since its BETA software it would make more sense to be able to uninstall it if it sucks)
   
   As far as my PC goes, if M$ forces the upgrade I'm turning my PC hardware into another Linux box (already have a FC4 box, this one will probably be Ubuntu, I’d like to see what the buzz is about), and buying a Mac Pro, since you can get OSX for $129 (yeah, sure, Mac's are $2500 machines, but considering the amount of freelance graphics & web design work I do, it's a smarter choice for me on the whole). The only reason I've stayed with Windows for so long is gaming, but now that Apple has boot camp, I can still run all my PC Games/Applications inside a native windows environment.
   
   I won't knock M$ for making you pay for an OS, but I will bash them, because the average user will have to go buy a new computer with the system requirements to run their damned OS. I know my system needs an upgrade for Vista, because my vid card doesn't support DX10, and that's fine, I've had designs on buying a new card closer to the release of DX10. So that doesn't bother me, but the fact that if, say my dad, wanted to upgrade to Vista, he'd have to go drop the cake on a new PC all together. it's not fair to the general consumer for M$ to release an OS that you have to get a whole new system (or massive upgrades) to run.
   
   So, the points of my ramblings are:
   1.) Why charge so much, $399 is exorbitant for an OS
   2.) Why force an upgrade of perfectly working hardware, just to support the visual aspect of Vista
   3.) I'm sure it's a decent OS, I've played with the buggy betas, but I won't pass judgment because of those, because they're just betas, and betas are meant to discover bugs.
   
   So, M$, why charge so much if the general user will require spending another couple hundred bucks to bring their system up to spec?
   
   Hmmm...

2. Comment - Dell Prepares AMD Desktops, Laptops

   (Aug 17, 2006 - 1:46 PM)

   the last nail in Dell's coffin has finally been put in place