I do not like to talk about a story that everyone is reporting, is this blog, it has become almost personal, a kind of guide of tips for every day I discover programming as needed. But there is much talk of " Mojave Experiment, I decided to put my personal reflection on the matter. I think as
points Hector Obregon, in his blog, "Without the right hardware Vista runs much worse than XP." And I think that the most curious is that people are more critical of the operating system is through people informatics. I in particular have not heard anyone outside of this closed field of geek, nerd or whatever you want to call, that criticizes both Vista. Sure, everyone wants more speed, a lot more speed, but the fact that the end user also acknowledges that the more memory, the more speed better experience on any computer, either Windows XP or Vista, MacOS, Ubuntu or whatever be.
Vista's launch was in January 2007, 18 months ago (as of this post). In the market still had machines for sale with 512 Mb, you really someone with some experience in systems, thought it was enough for Vista?. Personally
ran this January or February, or August, or December to buy windows vista. Wait 17 months to buy a machine that actually support the new OS (see my previous post ). Frankly
works beautifully. The new laptop is familiar, ie any person in the household has access to that machine, and before the purchase comment that would have Vista, I asked "I just want to be faster than my laptop!".
Sabia, who was not a matter of operating system, is a question of hardware. Javier Matuk comments in his blog "Maybe the public expect otherwise, especially for the needs of hardware that requires the product ..." I rethinking the issue to a matter of economics, the new laptop cost me much less than before and is much higher than he had, clear that 18 months ago, think about buying a PC with 4GB of RAM for less than $ 1.500 usd, was unthinkable, but it was a matter of time, now is more than accessible.
If I put Windows XP on this new laptop, I think it would work much faster, but the user in the family uses the computer to view Internet video, to see photos of family and friends, to write a file Word, create a spreadsheet and this view is undoubtedly easier to use.
But ... UAC, with UAC, I used MacOS Tiger for more than 4 years, and Ubuntu since version 5 is the same. Rather lose an entire day for some viruses, to be pushing a couple of button that is installed beyond each one application.
is the best operating system? Maybe not, but honestly easier to use than many previous ones (including some versions of Mac). Can it be improved? Sure you can, to start the SP1.
As a developer, I hope that eventually disappear machines not running Windows XP, but those with 1Gb no matter what OS are ...;)
Ready!
