Vista drops part 2.
I told you I was going to talk more about Windows new performance
rating.
As I said before my test computer (a pretty slamin box) only rated a 3 out of 5,
1 being lowest 5 being highest.
Implying some new kind of rating system wherein the software you buy at the store might say something like (made for computers with a rating of
3 to 4) or (not recommended for computers with a Vista performance
rating of one).
Microsoft is already getting grief over this because people don’t like
to be reminded their computer is a piece of poop. Or a great computer
with one weak link/component will rate poorly.
From what I’m seeing everybody is rating about 3 to 2.5.
Which tells me next year’s computers will be wicked fast, more than
capable to be servers or high-end workstations.
Where is all that power going to go?
Answer- into eye candy, the visual side of computing is coming on fast.
Just recently Google has released a lot of video, and many websites are
showing video, and TV over the
Internet, of course let’s not forget games.
That is what Vista is all about , it is a beautiful flowing fish bowl
graphics environment.
Hard core power users will shut a lot of the animation off for
performance, but that negates the whole idea of a beautiful responsive
interactive experience..
I personally love Vista’s look and feel, my beta is a little sloggy ,
but I have all the glitzy stuff turned on.
No a word document doesn't open any faster than it did in Windows 95,
maybe even slower.
Vista is supposedly going to download 15% faster; I have not run a test
to see if that’s the case. It doesn’t seem any faster on line maybe a
little slower than my Win 2000 box with similar hardware.
Some of the new features will be Internet explorer 7 available for Xp
in beta (download at Microsoft) Direct x 10 and Media player 11.
Microsoft has to make Vista a winner- it’s years over due, which brings
me to the new Mac pro tower.
What a beautiful cheese grater looking awesome dynamo of a computer!
It is capable of using 16 gigs of memory stored on two daughter board
risers-
runs OSX, Windows XP, Linux/Unix and probably some others only super
geeks use.
It is nothing less than a network server for people with money to throw
in the street.
But it is a sweet machine, air-cooled dual/dual core Intel Zeon chips
(four cores total)
I believe they offer 3 plus gig chip’s with a little quick math-that’s
2 cores per chip at let’s say 3 gig each and it has two chips so that’s
12 plus gig of Cpu power.
Dudes that’s a lot of Cpu.(Right now I’m using only 1 single core -
2.4 gig Cpu and it’s schorchin fast).I can only imagine what that kind
of processing power would be like.
I bet you it doesn’t open a word doc any faster than one of the old
Apple’s did.
Anyway….
Apple truly is the only forward looking company in the industry.
Steve Jobs love him or hate him is a visionary and believe it or not
holds’s Microsoft's future in his hands.
If leopard the new version of OSX runs on non-Mac hardware it could
crush Microsoft.
Many users would bag Windows and load OSX on their Dells in search of
a more Malware free surfing and emailing experience.
Not to mention Macs user-friendly approach and awesome art /audio/video
capabilities.
Mac while still small in comparison is selling millions of laptops and
I pods.
And with boot camp wooing Windows users and sucking up market share
Apple has gotten a second chance/wind.
My prediction and I’m not the only one is Jobs will release OSX for the
IBM pee cee right before Vista finally ships or he will save that
option and continue to let windows users dual boot to keep his hardware
division going.
Either way leopard is a threat and getting hungrier and bigger all the
time.
Microsoft better do every thing right and we know that won’t happen.
Vista looks great but next year could be the year of the Cat.
Ray
