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Hola Jordi,
Here's a good report on Vista:
"A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content
Protection"
I guess the only good thing about this mess is
people are now becoming aware.
_rob
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:04
AM
Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
Personally I feel very strongly about the DRM and
?trusted? computing and have to say it is enough as a concept to scare the
sh$t out of me.
Anyone planning to install Vista should have a proper
read to those many documents found about DRM and what Micro$oft is trying to
do with the help of the MPAA, RIAA and the like.
jb
On
30/1/07 12:28, "Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>
wrote:
Equally, I shoved it onto a Dell
laptop I wasn?t using about 6 months or so ago, RC1 I think it was. It
installed fast and easy, ran with no trouble at all. I used it as a second
machine for a couple of weeks without any real problems other than XSI
seemed not to recognize any mouse clicks on the OK button, but then that was
before there?d really been any mention of xsi on Vista. All the drivers
seemed to work, which was surprising. Performance was about the same as it
was under XP, memory footprint I didn?t look at too closely but I was
shoving some usually big scenes through it and it never complained. In the
end the laptop got sold otherwise I?d have probably left it on and continued
to use it quite happily. It was fine, a bit annoying with all the dumb new
security stuff asking you stupid questions every time it wants to make a
move, but it did what it said on the tin and made a pleasant enough change
of view.
I doubt I?ll be putting it on anything else of mine
any time soon. I?m not sure of the point of splashing out that much
money on something that does nothing all that differently to what I already
have. It?s also worth noting that every release of anything for the past ten
years has been problematic to some degree for enough people to make it a
probably unwise move for a few months yet. How problematic depending on your
kit, your experience and probably your frame of mind at the time but for
what it gives you, is it really worth the
risk?
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
On Behalf Of Wessam Bahnassi
Sent: 30 January 2007
15:03
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Vista and
XSI?
I installed Vista Ultimate x64 on my home machine
and I had to remove it right away afterwards. My machine is not super (AMD
Athlon 64 X2 Dual 3800+, with Geforce6600) but still... XSI gave me a
warning during installation that I have no OpenGL driver, and later, I was
lucky and managed to run it only once, and the viewports performance was
horrible. After that I failed to run it again thanks to SPM (I don?t know
how it ran the first time).
On another note, the OpenGL driver in 3dsMax
was giving a lot of garbage also? This is using the latest public nvidia
drivers that I downloaded three days ago?
I?m not saying it?s a bad OS,
but I prefer to give it sometime instead of being on the front line of
people suffering compatibility issues that would go with
time.
Wessam
Bahnassi
Microsoft DirectX MVP,
Programmer
Electronic
Arts
--
'Talk is cheap because supply exceeds
demand'
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
On Behalf Of jordibares
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
3:43 AM
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>; Marco
Spasiano
Subject: Re: Vista and XSI?
Man, that is funny.
jb
On
30/1/07 11:21, "Marco Spasiano" <spasiano(at)playstos.com> wrote:
Hi,
take a look to that:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/software/microsoft-vista-faster-on-a-mac-pro-than-apples-own-os-x-232402.php
Marco
-----
Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Andersson"
<sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent:
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Vista and
XSI?
>I can only agree :) And running bootcamp on a macbook
pro works great
> if you need windows for some applications (such as
xsi). Or.... you
> can install Linux, some distros actually supports
the MacBook Pro now.
> And then you can have both OSX and
Linux.
>
> Windows.... "archive to bin"
>
>
/stefan
>
>
> On 1/30/07, jordibares
<jordibares(at)the-mill.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you
are planning to use a windows based box MAKE SURE IS NOT
VISTA.
>>
>> http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/07/technology/Reality_check_Vista.biz2/index.htm?cnn=yes
>>
>>
>>
The implications are huge in terms of drivers/support for old
hardware,
>> memory requirements for the OS, and IMO one of the
worsts things we are
>> facing nowadays, Digital Restriction
Manager.
>>
>> To learn more
>>
>>
http://polishlinux.org/gnu/drm-vista-and-your-rights/
>>
>>
>>
My suggestion for a laptop? Buy a Mac with Bootcamp so you can run OS
X
>> and
>> Windows XP, the performance is impressive and
there are some benchmarks
>> between Macs and Dells running XSI,
Maya, Photoshop and seems they are
>> faster than comparable
models.
>>
>> Just make sure is NOT
VISTA.
>>
>>
jb
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
On 29/1/07 19:35, "Byron Nash" <byronnash(at)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm in the market for a
laptop(not to drudge up the old "laptops"
>> thread).
>>
As of today, everything Dell sells will come with MS Vista. Does
anyone
>> know
>> if XSI runs (well) on it? Also, is Vista
64bit? therefore allowing one to
>> run XSI
64bit?
>>
>> Another question: I looked at the
recommended hardware list for XSI
>> mobile
>>
workstations. It's pretty small. I also noticed that a lot of you
are
>> running lappys with graphics cards not on the list. I'm
looking into
>> Dell's
>> mostly, so Inspirons, M90/65 and
XPS are on the research list. As long as
>> I
>> upgrade
from the built in graphics controller to GeForce, Quadro, or
>>
Radeon
>> I should be able to run XSI,
correct??
>>
>>
>
>
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>
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