LA_MERC_MadMAX
January 16th, 2007, 04:47 PM
God, for one I feel wierd posting a question here -but I've been out of the "computer loop" for a while working exclusively with Home Theater, Car Audio and Appliances stuff for nearly a year...
Anyway - I hadn't paid too much attention to the advances in computer tech. until I started doing research for my new machine a few weeks ago...
It's not like I didn't know about Vista or anything- I had a copy of a beta we got at the store a while back, and even loaded it on my old computer - for like a week - just got too slow on that machine...
With my new machine, I get a free upgrade to windows vista home premium, which has Aero, and a lot of the other new cool "eye candy" goodies. For those of you still in "the business", i.e., Darren, Henry, Toby, etc., do you think I should load it right away, or hold off? I was an early adopter to XP, but wound up switching back to 2000 for a while, before I stuck w/ XP. I DO have an extra hard drive in my machine that I'm not really using for anything of importance right now, so I COULD set up a dual boot, but I'm not sure what kind of vista CD gateway is sending me - it may be like a restore CD, and has all automated functions...
Also, another unrelated side question...I always thought of Windows Media Center as just XP Pro w/ a bunch of add-on crap, but running MCE 2005, it feel's a bit different - more refined - perhaps it's just the fact I've been running a "unupdatable" copy of XP so long, I hadn't gotten all the enhancements available, and it could very well be the difference in an up-to-date machince - who knows, but I do like the new "energy blue" visual style (see attachment)...
Anyway - I hadn't paid too much attention to the advances in computer tech. until I started doing research for my new machine a few weeks ago...
It's not like I didn't know about Vista or anything- I had a copy of a beta we got at the store a while back, and even loaded it on my old computer - for like a week - just got too slow on that machine...
With my new machine, I get a free upgrade to windows vista home premium, which has Aero, and a lot of the other new cool "eye candy" goodies. For those of you still in "the business", i.e., Darren, Henry, Toby, etc., do you think I should load it right away, or hold off? I was an early adopter to XP, but wound up switching back to 2000 for a while, before I stuck w/ XP. I DO have an extra hard drive in my machine that I'm not really using for anything of importance right now, so I COULD set up a dual boot, but I'm not sure what kind of vista CD gateway is sending me - it may be like a restore CD, and has all automated functions...
Also, another unrelated side question...I always thought of Windows Media Center as just XP Pro w/ a bunch of add-on crap, but running MCE 2005, it feel's a bit different - more refined - perhaps it's just the fact I've been running a "unupdatable" copy of XP so long, I hadn't gotten all the enhancements available, and it could very well be the difference in an up-to-date machince - who knows, but I do like the new "energy blue" visual style (see attachment)...