Re: [Hampshire] Vista, virtualbox and DD..

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:57:31PM -0000, Vic wrote:
> > Secondly I'd like to see what Vista is like
>
> It's a pig in a dress. It is *extremely* slow, and I crashed[2] it three
> times in two days.

[snip]
> [2] Total lock-ups - no keyboard response at all, nothing. Had to use the
> power switch to recover...


I sat down at a Vista workstation with a colleague in our undergrad
labs a little while ago. Within 5 minutes of simply playing with the
desktop, Rich had got the machine into a state that needed a reboot...

Anecdotal, but fairly damning nevertheless.

Hugo.

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