http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/ Engadget Comments for Vista gets crammed onto a PS3. It's as bad as you think. http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
Wasn't Vista bad long before it ever got jammed on a PS3?

Go figure. You never know when a lower primate is going to say something profound. And to think, he wishes MS would put Vista on a mobile handset.]]>Aug 5th 2008 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
You are an embarrassment to mac users.]]>Aug 5th 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
On a serious note, this is painful, why so slow?]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Also, the PS3 has awfully little RAM for such things, so I guess the HDD is probably a tiny step away from exploding because of all that swapping...]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
i.e. it ostensibly doesn't even know what to do half the time with the x86 code/processes/threads/etc running on an OS such as Vista that is designed around contemporary X86 OOE processors.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
Even if you dropped a copy of Linux compiled for x86 in the exact same environment, it would be slow beyond all imagination. OSX would likely run about as well as Vista does on it.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
If our memory was faster we could run Vista on Pentium III cpus and not notice a difference.]]>Aug 5th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
sorry, i have a pet peeve for these things]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
Revised title: OSX gets crammed onto a PS3. Its a GOOD as you think.

Engadget is sooooo biased lol]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/a gaming console is not design to run applications... it's not the same CPU. Example, look at the SNES, the CPU is much slower then the computer back then, but if you want to play with a today SNES emulator with back then computers, you still need 3 or even 4 times the console speed.
And to top things over, this OS runs under emulation.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
for 1) Leopard runs natively on PowerPC.. So 'technically' it would be easier to get running on the bare metal.

2) Good luck running Vista on an 867mhz computer w/ 768mb of ram.. My buddy runs the latest version of OSX on his 5 year old powerbook with those specs. Runs smoother than Vista installs on dual core systems currently on the market.

So, it would likely still run slow (since Linux itself runs slow on the PS3 because it doesn't take advantage of all the SPE cores), but wouldn't necessarily be 'as' slow as Vista. In fact, I guarantee that. ]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
I have leopard, on a 1.5GHz G4 with 1.25GB ram, and it's dog slow. In comparison, vista on a 0.6GHz C2D with 2 GB ram is still quite snappy. Vista and leopard Both need oodles of ram (minimum 2 GB) and decent CPU's, and GPU's.]]>Aug 5th 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
i.e. it ostensibly doesn't even know what to do half the time with the x86 code/processes/threads/etc running on an OS such as Vista that is designed around contemporary X86 OOE processors.]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
Of course, running software that was written for an Intel processor on an underpowered PowerPC is slow. That's neither the fault of Vista, nor the fault of Sony.]]>Aug 5th 2008 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/
It would likely take even Microsoft a very, very, very long time to get it working. (Years.)]]>Aug 5th 2008 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/


Side Note: I like your math Engadget. 8 seconds into the video it says it took "24 min 6 sec Boot time to Start Menu." That somehow gets rounded up to "nearly 25 minutes" in the article. Kind of how I round up my 9 in. to 1 1/2 ft. when I'm feeling like a braggart in front of easy women. Very nice.]]>Aug 5th 2008 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/05/vista-gets-crammed-onto-a-ps3-its-as-bad-as-you-think/Aug 5th 2008 12:33PM