I have seen WalMart run sales many times where the price went back up after the sale is over. They may not do it as much as other retailers but they surely do it. Case in point, Black Friday. They run all sorts of sales that day and the prices go right back up the next day.
As for Linux and printers, when is the last time you used Linux with a printer? I haven't had problems with print drivers for a good 4 years now but I think that's a discussion for a different thread.
I agree with Cliff on the confusing branching and outrageous pricing of the full license of Windows. What keeps me with Windows is the applications (Office, overclocking/benchmarking tools, and games) not the beauty of OS. I use Linux or MacOS X when I want to play with a well designed, high performance OS. As long as I can use the applications I want, I am staying with Vista instead of paying for Windows 7.
I'm giving Win7 6 months or so to prove itself before I actually upgrade over vista. At least vista is fairly stable, for the moment.
As long as Win7 has no serious issues found with security or gaming performance I'll move on up. I've heard it's supposed to be a lot more streamlined than vista, from a coding standpoint.
Why wait six months to rely on what others say? Just use it for yourself (it's free to try); I am now firmly married to Win 7, as it improves on XP (and especially vista) in almost every way.
I think you're officially the only person on the planet that would want to stay with Vista over moving to Win 7.
I am upgrading to Snow Leopard as soon as it is released. If Win 7 Pro was $29 to upgrade like Snow Leopard, I would want Win 7 too. I can guarantee you that I will not be alone with a $199 ($99 now) upgrade price.
This upgrade price makes me like Vista. Besides, I upgraded to Vista only about 1 year ago and I have just got used to it. Vista is working absolutely fine with my tweaking and service packs. And, I like my little Quick Launch icons. :o
The question was not to me, I think. But I installed and tested the beta of Win 7 64 bit before I deleted it. It might be faster on lower end computers but on my Q6600@3.3, 6GB RAM computer I did not see much performance difference compared to Vista 64 bit I have been using on the main disk other than slightly (~250MB) smaller memory use. I must admit that I did not do the post installation tuning/tweaking on Windows 7.
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I have seen WalMart run sales many times where the price went back up after the sale is over. They may not do it as much as other retailers but they surely do it. Case in point, Black Friday. They run all sorts of sales that day and the prices go right back up the next day.
As for Linux and printers, when is the last time you used Linux with a printer? I haven't had problems with print drivers for a good 4 years now but I think that's a discussion for a different thread.
As long as Win7 has no serious issues found with security or gaming performance I'll move on up. I've heard it's supposed to be a lot more streamlined than vista, from a coding standpoint.
Why wait six months to rely on what others say? Just use it for yourself (it's free to try); I am now firmly married to Win 7, as it improves on XP (and especially vista) in almost every way.
Just try it, make up your mind for yourself.
I am upgrading to Snow Leopard as soon as it is released. If Win 7 Pro was $29 to upgrade like Snow Leopard, I would want Win 7 too. I can guarantee you that I will not be alone with a $199 ($99 now) upgrade price.
This upgrade price makes me like Vista. Besides, I upgraded to Vista only about 1 year ago and I have just got used to it. Vista is working absolutely fine with my tweaking and service packs. And, I like my little Quick Launch icons. :o
Get a better printer :P