SW Vista -First Impressions

if it is ok with NDA can you tell us how much memory is being used with SW open in Vista please.. ...and I presume file sizes are bigger now cos of the 'palms' but I won't ask about it... :o)

How's about a screen shot of this oh so gooderer UI? :)

really, is it that important what it looks like?? shouldn't the question be,... how it performs!??????

please, seriously,.. read some articles on vista's performance, or how much memory is needed just to run it!????

I took ALL the cute stuff off because I'm interested in performance, not glitter.

for those interested in what Vista lools like...

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i for one installed vista ultimate

not keen it took up nearly 11GB of space

wasnt happy with SW Vista either

dont like way vista asks if im sure about everything i do

will be a long time before i change from xp

i for one installed vista ultimate

not keen it took up nearly 11GB of space

wasnt happy with SW Vista either

dont like way vista asks if im sure about everything i do

will be a long time before i change from xp

yea this may be true for at least a year or two as far as performance goes on todays computers. But that will all change as the hardware progresses over the coming years.

I pretty much have a brand new alienware box with some pretty modest specs. So my performace may be a little bias.

Let's face it. Windows 3.1 would run like a dream on todays machines from a performance stand point. But it's unable to take advantage of many of todays graphics technologies and control input.

I have to believe this is the same with Vista. I expect later software versions to be better optimized for this new engine and possibly better support for other stuff as well. Multicore processors come to mind.

Maybe I am being too optimistic but you have to start somewhere when it comes to progression. The hardware coming in a couple years from now will surely be multiple processor cores and other goodies. Vista will surely run like a dream then and maybe that's what the plan calls for. And by that time they too will have "most" of the bugs worked out (Does this sound familiar???).

Don

Please upload some pics and post the links :)

If you need a free image host, photobucket is great.

After seeing the XGL demo and what Sculley says about it's performance Vista looks obsolete.

maybe a dumb question as i dont know much about other OS

does solidworks run on linux

I was reffering to the UI of SolidWorks.

The short answer is no.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"

The interesting thing is what Parallels is comin up with....

Parallels for Mac lets you run WinXP side by side in another window with Mac OSX.

The rumors from the Beta testers is that a newer implementation lets Windows applications run directly in Mac OSX.

I know this only from rumor mill, and it is likely that performance with a heavy duty CAD application is not something Parallels envisioned with the new software...but time will tell.

Indeed, I don't really care which OS I use any longer as long as I can keep running 100% of the time without bugs & crashes.

Bo

Jerry Steiger wrote:

Is the long answer different? =========================================================================== Chris

Yeah, it's longer.

I was just running Parallels Workstation 2.2 demo (on XP) the other day. It's not bad, I'm testing/booting some linux/solaris/bsd live cd's (soundcard errors only) It's not very fast but it works!

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