of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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I hated XP. The blue screens, the freezes, the overall old-ness of the OS. When Vista came out I was thrilled to have something new to play with. Big changes, a totally new UI, even the bugs were fun because they were new and exciting. Windows 7 isn't winning me over though, since it is basically a polished version of Vista. I don't even know if I'll jump to 7 when it launches. Vista works fine for me now, why spend the money on what is looking to be nothing more than a service pack? Heck, the biggest feature everyone is talking about now is the superbar, and I hate the thing.
Oh well, I'll enjoy my time in the Vista Mountains.
"even the bugs were fun because they were new and exciting"
WTH!? That's like saying you enjoyed that new sandwich someone handed you with the mold on it. It was fun and exciting trying to eat around the problem area.
You case with XP is some kind of an exception, not a general rule. In the past 7 years, I swear I never had a BSOD on XP, not once!
Wow Matt, what have you been doing with your PC? I've been using XP for over 7 years now and it's solid as a rock. It doesn't get much better than SP3. I've never EVER had a BSOD on XP. I used Vista for about a month and hated it. It's a horrible resource hog and it's networking stability is a joke. I'm now using 7 and it's a God send. So much better than Vista and solid as a rock for a beta. Hell in the state it's in now it could go to production right now and still be better than Vista. It's lightening quick, uses very little resources, and is a worthy successor to XP (unlike the joke that is Vista). Vista is a joke, it's this generation's ME. It's days are numbered.
> I hated XP. The blue screens, the freezes
'Dear Penthouse Letters...'
You must be pretty lucky, since I've used XP for ages, and Ive had over 300 bluescreens and I'm not even kidding.
I do alot of video/game/art work and such, and play a ton of games, I have XP installed on several machines (or did, when they were all running) and it died practically all the time.
Right now I'm running vista 64-bit and it's crashed plenty, and at school on the new Dell XPS's I got a bluescreen dumping the physical memory and lost an hour of work. At home, Vista overall sucks... I have to spend 20 minutes to hack around to play my old games (homeworld, homeworld cataclysm & homeworld 2) and stuff like that (cataclysm ran at 5FPS before i started messing with it!) Overall an annoying experience.
I'm unable to use ubuntu right now, because there's no driver for my wireless usb thing I'm using while im living at my current location, but that will change soon.
Windows 7 looks much faster an stable... I dunno if I'll buy it though. It'll all depend on the backwards compatibility for me, because vista failed horribly in that respect for me.
My computer is a quad core Q6600 w/ 8gb ram, nVidia 9800GTX with a 700 watt power supply running at 32 degrees celcius.. no problems with the hardware, and the other day my firefox couldn't even play a standard resolution video in fullscreen at 1920x1200 on my 24" monitor without choking and gagging. On my freaking quad-core! It took me 30 mins to fix the stupid problem.. Things like this are counter productive and should be fixed FAR before the product goes to market. Service packs won't cut it anymore... You can't bake half a cake, sell it as a full cake to a customer and tell them to pick up the other half next tuesday.
-Jaredu