I'm soon to install the beta R1 of Vista and I was wondering if that would be a bad decision i mean would anything be totally wrong? plus I heard somewhere that you cant pirate anymore after installing Vista, is that true?
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Anonymous2006-09-17 23:53
MY OPERATING SYSTEM USES UP 350 MEGS AND MY RAM USAGE IS ALWAYS UNDER 50 KILOBYTES FAP FAP FAP
It's doesn't actually matter that much anymore. Macs come with like 15gb used up by default and who cares? You get all sorts of cool stuff for free with it (iDVD and Garageband take up like 5gb of that by themselves, but iPhoto\iMovie, Pages\Keynote\Office trials, and a large array of other Apple apps take up even more. But nobody complains about this, because the apps are useful and cool and oddly enough in the world of 250gb+ desktop hard drives 15gb is not that much anymore.
Vista's 7gb includes a bunch of new, useful apps - MS are doing what Apple does, and providing a more comprehensive photo library, media centre interface, DVD creator, mail client, and other assorted utilities for free out of the box. It's not a bad thing!
I consider all this analogous to the idea that "OMG MY OPERATING SYSTEM IS USING UP ALL MY FREE RAM MAN WHAT THE FUCK BLOAT!!!!" Hardware has pushed way ahead of OS development and we need to start using all this extra capacity for caching, smart new OS-level features and high quality bundled apps.
If you want to run xfce on a streamlined linux kernel and pump your cock as you watch your terminal window display 2040mb free ram and 0.04% max CPU usage on your dual core processor, go do that, but the rest of the world is forging ahead and doesn't actually care if Spotlight uses up a hundred megabytes to store an instant search index - because it's useful!