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by **Antony** » Sun 11 Mar, 2007 8:18 am

Nice, Vista Business must have cost you a bit.

Where is the thread about Windows Experience Index (Vista Rating)? I feel my computer is slow.

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by **Mandrake** » Sun 11 Mar, 2007 8:54 am

Antony wrote:Nice, Vista Business must have cost you a bit.

Not really. I got the OEM version. The "hardware" I bought with it is an IDE cable!

Edit: Here's the old thread with the Vista scores in it.

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by **Antony** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 1:35 am

Mandrake wrote:I took the plunge and installed Vista this weekend. I went with Vista Business, since I use some features that are not present in Home Premium.

You will miss out Parental Controls, Media Center functionality, Windows DVD Maker features in Home Premium.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 5:34 am

Antony wrote:
Mandrake wrote:I took the plunge and installed Vista this weekend. I went with Vista Business, since I use some features that are not present in Home Premium.
You will miss out Parental Controls...

What are the chances somebody's going to parental control their own computer?

Whenever I downgrade to Vista I'm definitely going for Business. They don't have EFS, remote-accessable Terminal Services, IIS7, offline files, and other useful stuff in Home Premium. I can live without parental controls and Media Center and DVD Maker, since there's little chance I'd use them anyway.

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by **Antony** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 5:40 am

Don_HH2K wrote:
Antony wrote:
Mandrake wrote:I took the plunge and installed Vista this weekend. I went with Vista Business, since I use some features that are not present in Home Premium.
You will miss out Parental Controls...

What are the chances somebody's going to parental control their own computer?

I can parental control your computer for you. ;-)

Don_HH2K wrote:Whenever I downgrade to Vista I'm definitely going for Business.

"Downgrade"? What are you using now?

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by **Don_HH2K** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 10:37 am

Antony wrote:
Don_HH2K wrote:
Antony wrote:
Mandrake wrote:I took the plunge and installed Vista this weekend. I went with Vista Business, since I use some features that are not present in Home Premium.
You will miss out Parental Controls...

What are the chances somebody's going to parental control their own computer?
I can parental control your computer for you.

And how (and why) do you intend to do that?

Antony wrote:
Don_HH2K wrote:Whenever I downgrade to Vista I'm definitely going for Business.
"Downgrade"? What are you using now?

XP. The "Downgrade" was a joke.

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by **Antony** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 11:09 am

Don_HH2K wrote:
Antony wrote:
Don_HH2K wrote:
Antony wrote:
Mandrake wrote:I took the plunge and installed Vista this weekend. I went with Vista Business, since I use some features that are not present in Home Premium.
You will miss out Parental Controls...

What are the chances somebody's going to parental control their own computer?
I can parental control your computer for you.

And how (and why) do you intend to do that?

I meant I am willing to parental control your computer for you. Just set up an admin account (for me) and enable remote control.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Fri 16 Mar, 2007 12:44 pm

I think I'll pass on that offer.

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by **Mandrake** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 8:21 am

I just need to point out that I am poor. Mandrake does not even have a working DVD burner. The one I have only reads DVDs, it will not successfully burn a DVD. I am too poor to buy another one. :cry:

Don, OTOH, can burn all the DVDs he wants. Conclusion? :arrow:

Clearly, Don_HH2K is rich. Mandrake is poor.

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 8:28 am

Don doesn't have blank DVDs. So he can't burn all the DVDs he wants; in fact, he can't burn a single DVD.

Of course, I can still burn however many VCDs I want, since those are what's available in terms of movies on the unethical isoHunt.

So how about, Don_HH2K and Mandrake are poor, and Antony is clearly rich?

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by **Antony** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 9:41 am

Don_HH2K wrote:So how about, Don_HH2K and Mandrake are poor, and Antony is clearly rich?

Antony's 32-bit laptop can't burn DVDs (it is only a Combo Drive), Don's 64-bit laptop can burn DVD, DVD+R DL etc

Hence Don is rich.

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by **Mandrake** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 9:50 am

Antony wrote:Hence Don is rich.

Agreed!

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by **Don_HH2K** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 9:59 am

Antony wrote:Antony's 32-bit laptop can't burn DVDs (it is only a Combo Drive), Don's 64-bit laptop can burn DVD, DVD+R DL etc

Hence Don is rich.

You forget to mention that your 64-bit iMac can burn DVD and DVD+R DL too.

Let me remind you a bit about my 32-bit half-a-laptop. It's 233MHz; your 32-bit laptop is 1.33GHz. It has 160MB (and came with 32MB) of 66MHz memory; yours uses fast DDR-PC2700 memory. The video card doesn't support 3D acceleration, yours does. It has a 20GB hard drive (and came with a 3GB hard drive), yours is 60GB. It has a 32-bit display, mine only does 16-bit color. It has a built-in modem, ethernet, and wireless, while I need to use add-on cards for all that. And yours can burn CDs, mine can't even read some burned CDs.

And let's not forget your 32-bit laptop is portable. If I so much as lift mine it falls apart, because it's held together with tape. Yours is still in one piece.

Need I say more?

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by **Antony** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 10:07 am

shouldn't we compare my 32-bit laptop to your 64-bit laptop?

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by **Pu7o** » Sat 17 Mar, 2007 10:22 am

Antony wrote:shouldn't we compare my 32-bit laptop to your 64-bit laptop?

No, we should compare his best computer with your best computer, meaning his 64-bit laptop should be compared with your 64-bit iMac. BTW, Pu7o doesn't have 64-bit anything, only a slow 32-bit iMac (which hasn't been able to burn DVDs properly for about a month, I might add), hence, I am poor, while you guys are all rich.

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