Vista SP1 riding the torrents, breaking Ballmer's heart
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted February 7th 2008 10:06AM
posted February 7th 2008 10:06AM
posted February 7th 2008 10:06AM
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ok, wtf engadget. I have like 3 pictures on my computer and 1 is of my mom and 1 is of apple pie...
The real question is
What is the third?
Actually its like 12 but a few are mom/sis from thanksgiving, few are my dogs, and an apple pie that won me a county fair. :P
his mom walking in on him with an apple pie
Who keeps a picture of their Mom on their computer!?
Well... unless it's the family computer...
Whatch gunna do with the county fair now that you won it?
...now where is the torrent for XP SP3???
The big question is:
Has anyone tried it? Does vista suck less?
From what I've read, it doesn't suck less - it just sucks differently. It sucks more in some ways and less in others although it still sucks in those other areas. BUt if you are one of those heads half full people you'll tell others they are imagining that it suck and if you just put in 4 more gigs of memory and another processor it runs fine - will even run as fast as XP on a 386 computer if you buy all that additional stuff.
The minute someone pipes in with a comment that he read.....no one gives a shit about his opinion.
I've been using RC SP1 since December when I dropped Vista back on my 2.33Ghz C2D MacBook Pro. (I removed it after a 3 week jaunt with Vista back in July. Hated it with the utmost intensity. SP1 is worlds different. File transfers are MUCH faster, teh snappy seems to have been found in several aspects of the GUI. (Esp the Network and Share Center.) Overall SP1 is going to bring back people who:
1. Have the hardware to actually enjoy vista. (Sorry but you need 2GB\1.2Ghz DC\128MB of VRAM IMHO.)
I migrated my copy of Vista Business from my MBP over to my Gateway Tablet PC about 2 weeks ago, that is running a ULV 1.2Ghz Dual Core\3GB RAM\160GB 5400 RPM drive\Intel 945 integrated Graphics.
For those kinda specs (Esp the graphics and CPU) you would expect to hear a certain sucking noise (or possibly a help meeeeee voice) coming from the speaker. It doesn't. Its surprisingly fast. You ain't gaming on this other then possible games prior to 2004. You won't be doing heavy hitting video ripping\encoding but performance for all the basic "stuff" is really rather snappy.
That and MS fixed the readyboost bug in Vista. I popped a 2GB 150x SD card into my Tablet's SD slot. After it cached a bunch of my more common apps the startup time on some of these apps like iTunes, Firefox, Onenote, iView, Trillian, etc are noticeably faster.
So yah the haters who hate and as such have no experience with SP1 can go frack themselves.
i was able to find SP1 for 64-bit Vista off usenet. no waiting around for torrents to finish.
I don't really understand the popularity of bit torrent, its soooo slow! Someone educated me.
If you think bittorrent is slow, wait until you try Vista!
It is only slow if:
1) Theres a horrible share ratio
2) you have a crap internet speed
Maybe he just doesn't understand "Port Forwarding".
It's the RC - read the comments here:
http://www.mininova.org/com/1142953
This doesn't seem to be the real deal anyway. Posted on that same torrent:
"I've installed this via Virtual PC 2007. It "looks like" the Final SP1 Built 18000 but it's not. "Winver" command says Built 18000 Service Pack 1. Maybe it's altered somehow.
I've checked it with vLite 1.1.1 > Integrate feature and it showed me that SP1 RC1 is integrated into setup.
Here's the screenshot;
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8227/sp1rc1ux0.jpg
(The selected line is the RC1 knowledge base page; http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936330)
I've wasted my time on this."
I´m happy for the improvements but sincerely I do not believe that they are going to make magic. The % of the graphic card destined to the 3D desk did not change as far as requirements.
That causes that Vista Windows continues being highly ineffective as much in design 3D as in games, for example.
looks like somebody put up XP SP3 on the MiniNova torrents now, though I question its legitimacy.
Huh, maybe the extra attention to trying to find Vista SP1 on BT will make my GGW downloads go a bit faster....
there's at least 1 32-bit and 1 64-bit standalone Vista SP1 on the torrent sites now, no need for a fresh install
It does improve speed, I've had the RC1 on my laptop and it's writing a lot less to the hard drive and seems to sit in sleep mode a bit better (although sometimes it takes a minute to wake, no idea why). This is on a Samsung Q45 with 2GB of RAM.
Let me know when there's a full installer with SP1 integrated that is and will remain active. kthx
I think Uncle Fester would be happy they are stealing Vista - at least that means someone is using it instead of upgrading from Vista to XP.
I think Uncle Fester would be happy they are stealing Vista - at least that means someone is using it instead of upgrading from Vista to XP.
yum apple pie
The 450MB Windows6.0-KB936330-X86.exe SP1 patch installed fine except the fact it took 1.5hrs on a XPS M1710 with 2.0GHz T7200/4GB RAM/160GB 7200RPM HD
Downloaders, Downloaders, Downloaders!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La_u1jPLOIA
I always love this one the best
I honestly don't think that the Vista SP1 download is authentic.
I am a member of the Vista Beta program via it's Connect website and the SP1 RTM for Vista is not available there, only Server 2008...
The only Vista build currently available for download is SP1 RC Refresh (RC2).
So I would be very careful installing whatever is in this torrent.
Has anyone tried the x64 copy?
yes and it worked quite well
I've installed both the 32-bit (on a 2gig 2ghz core 2 duo laptop w/ Vista Enterprise) and 64-bit (4gig 2.13ghz core 2 duo desktop w/ Ultimate) and both are performing LOADS better. I'm talking about the standalone ~500meg upgrade exes here. Both are still properly activated, file copies are unbroken, the UI lag is gone, and resume from sleep is way faster on the laptop. For those of you in the camp that like the new UI and new features but hated the massive performance hit of Vista vs. XP you will be very pleased. Worth doing immediately imho. One last note, I tried the various RCs and with the timebombs and activation breakage they weren't worth it. This one is, absolutely.
Is it just me or does Ballmer's body language remind you of Hilter giving a speech?
i downloaded sp1 2 weeks ago on microsoft official website. so whats the big deal about this? and plus they're not much of a difference between vista with or w/o sp1
that was a beta version.
@CosterMonger
Is it just me or does Ballmer's body language in that video remind you of Hilter giving a speech?
Don't know how the hell my other comment got down were it ended up before.
Ballmer has a heart?
No. Behind his shirt.. there is only another chair.
Just so people know, there is a torrent that just does the SP1 update, without having to re-install all of windows. Do a search for Standalone Vista SP1 in the regular places and you will find it.
PS it does work, I have tried it and all went well.
DOS 6.0 FTW.
I ALREADY GOT IT... LK AGEEESS AGO... and it works... so yea...
don see much diff from the RC REFRESH .774 or wateva it was called but least now it doesnt say im running longhorn.... lol
Ballmer is a twat and he can suck it.
What's sad is that that's actually a good rule of thumb.
Somebody slip an ubuntu livecd into his car. A bunch of nerds scattered over the face of the planet just scraped up an OS that curb stomps everything he ever lived for. That should do it, right?