The overall quality of this $399 Windows Vista Ultimate edition isn’t deserving of final-release-candidate status, says CNET’s Robert Vamosi. Expect to see at least one more interim build or perhaps even another release candidate soon, CNET says under the subtitle “Vista still not ready for prime time.”
Vamosi takes a CNET “First Look: Windows Vista RC2” via online video here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why people (and the vast majority, no less) put up with Windows is unfathomable. They truly must believe that they have no other choice or perhaps it’s just the good old “ignorance is bliss” factor that keeps working so profitably for Microsoft. Even if Vista actually worked, there is no way we could stand to look at and fight with an interface that looks like the spawn of two drunk inbred Macs who stumbled into some depraved fertility clinic run by Hanna-Barbera.
For our Windows-only visitors via Google News and elsewhere: Are you really going to spend that kind of money ($399 for Windows Vista Ultimate) on an operating system that is trying so desperately to be Apple’s Mac OS X? Most likely, you’re going to need a new computer to run Vista anyway. Why not use that money toward a new Mac instead? Install your current copy of Windows XP on it via Apple’s free Boot Camp or Parallels US$79.99 Desktop for Mac. From what we see, you won’t be missing out on much by ignoring Windows Vista (some call it “Windows XP SP3”) and you’ll be gaining so much more with Apple’s virus-free Mac OS X and iLife applications running on elegant and inexpensive Intel-powered Apple hardware.
Now is the perfect time to consider trying something new (and you can still run your Windows applications, too)! At some point in your life, you’ve probably told someone, “You don’t know what you’re missing,” right? Well, we’re saying that to you today. Get a Mac! You deserve it. And the Mac community will be here to support your new adventure every step of the way. Why do we care what you use? Do it and you’ll find yourself telling people to “Get a Mac,” too. Switching from Windows PC to Mac really is a revelation.
Find out more about Mac OS X Tiger here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/
And Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard (coming spring 2007) here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/
Apple’s Intel-powered MacBook starts at just $1099. And, Apple’s Intel-powered iMac starts at only $999.
. Apple’s Mac mini starts at just $599
(For $200 more than a box of Vista Ultimate, you get a Mac, Mac OS X, iLife, and so much more)!
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Love the description of Vista.
So what do you really think about vista?
Double whammy – it’s the spawn of two already inbred things as opposed to being inbred as a result of their drunken union.
Watching that video I’ve come to the conclusion that Vista actually looks worse than XP. That isn’t the finished look is it? Tell me CNET installed some horrible skin or something.
If you look at the video on the link – then you can see that it looks like M$ has used the OSX Stones wallpaper in the segment on creating user accounts. If not the exact image it is enough to qualify as YAUF (Yet Another Unoriginal Feature) from the masters of the BSOD.
$399? WTF?!?
mikeR,, what do you think?
I think it’s too busy for the average user to understand. It doesn’t make it “simple”.
Macs don’t go that way, even when drunk.
balmy is doing it again… yesterday he was squirting… today he is coming, and coming, and coming and coming and coming and coming…
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6124963.html?tag=ne.video.6124945
is he for real???
MW: help… as in he needs it!
Holy crap that looks like crap.
Although I know I live in a country with many retards (
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(was i first?)
Vista – The bastard son of a thousand madmen.
Is it me or that Vista is unbelievably ugly?!?
Vista is like Gloria Swanson coming down the stairs at the end of “Sunset Blvd”
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841797/
All painted up with nowhere to go but down.
I love this explanation of Windows Vista from a coding site, justifying the operating systems’s absurb requirements and abuse of system resources. Here’s a quote:
“You have to stop thinking of system memory as a resource and start thinking of it as a a cache.”
Uhh, right. The operating system doesn’t take 800MB of RAM it provides 1.2GB of system cache to improve the user experience. When will this grotequery end? Honestly, I don’t know if OSX is any better though, right now I have all my 2GB used with a 15.3GB page file, and I’m not doing a whole lot…
$399.00 is WAY over priced. I don’t care what OS it is. But especially Windows/Visa.
I could probably buy a crappy PC for $200.00 and get the OS that way then pitch the POS PC into the trash.
But that would only happen if I planned on buying Vista – I don’t.
I jut went to the C/Net site to watch the video report on Vista. And what assaukted my eyes and ears? Video ads! If MDN ever starts this practice, I will stop visiting this site!
It looks like it was designed by Apple.
To look bad so people will buy Mac OSX.
If I was Microsoft and that was the state of play right now, and it was out to manufacturing ‘soon’ – I’d have the old brown trousers on, be having sleepless nights (and days) and be looking for a rope and a beam.
It’s gonna be a lash-up of cosmic proportions. Hopefully.
Why people (and the vast majority, no less) put up with Windows is unfathomable.
Not really. Apple dropped the ball, big time, in the mid-to-late-1990’s. Microsoft picked it up. We are still living with those decisions.
Change is difficult and expensive. Only when the alternative is cheaper and much better does change happen.
That is what is happening now. OS X is changing things. It will be slow. Be patient. It will happen
Looks like Bomber has lost a little weight. There’s no doubt that his health is robust though.
Love the look the interviewer chick had when he talked about coming and the bone in his mouth. He is such an obnoxious tool. Priceless.
Make that “assaulted”, not “assaukted”.
XP wasn’t ready for prime time either, but that didn’t stop M$. Why should this be any different?
Vista has ‘an interface that looks like the spawn of two drunk inbred Macs who stumbled into some depraved fertility clinic run by Hanna-Barbera’.
Nice description MDN.
“Although I know I live in a country with many retards ( ) it’s actually true MDN: many people have no clue when it comes to “operating systems”: they still don’t know that there is such thing as “another” OS, let alone Mac OSX”
Although it may be difficult for all the nerds on this board to believe it, but most of the general population doesn’t even know what an operating system is. They just know they bought a “computer” that runs “programs”.
Most of the population is stupid, which seems to very closely correlate with 95% windows market share.
This man Ballmer is a complete and utter nutcase… you have to see this video. Even the interviewers are rolling their eyes…!
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6124963.html?tag=ne.video.6124945
Microsoft IS finished. It’s only a matter of time.