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But would they get a new CD/MP3 player because they saw a new one which looks nicer, adds some features they don't need and also may not work as well as their original ones?

still happily using XP SP1 on my machines

braincell wrote:I remember a computer repair person telling me many years ago that he couldn't see why anyone would ever need more than 64 megs of RAM.

But that's nothing compared to these:
http://www.rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml

So, Braincell, what are you working on lately? Have you done anything with that 555 chip?

The 555 chip is in the closet with my guitar. I'm working on a music podcast of my music now. I had to start over because I didn't have enough focus so I didn't publish the first one. I hope to speed up the process and post a link in the music section when it's done.

The download is officially released It is called (release candidate) which I assume means Beta, by the way this is not on the windows update page so IE and Windows Genuine Advantage is not required. It is 330 megabytes:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... layLang=en

Now I have installed it on 3 computers. Two of them seem not to have suffered but one of them will no longer boot except in safe mode. I'll fix that later or if need be install XP again. Fortunately that computer was seldom used. I did need it for printing though. I'll be testing the SP3 for improved performance in the SFP tonight.

I did a lot of music tonight. I have to say that the computer is working better with SP3 like some people reported. Casual users might not notice but I could tell. This is very good for music. Before GPO would get a stuck note more frequently and I would usually have a crash when shutting down my system. Maybe they don't want to publicize how good it is because they want people to buy Vista.

stardust wrote:oh yes but I am not going to use Vista (as i may have said before ) and there will be quite a lot others doing that for a (long) while.

You bet!

Every time I build a system for somebody, I convince explain them why NOT to upgrade to the Vista OS. Few want to upgrade anyway, and most of all, for their kids, but not for real performance issues.

In what concerns my PRO systems, no way... I will stay XP, as said, for a long... long time... I simply don't need anything else, whatsoever, just to concentrate in making music.

I have everything, I mean, "everything" I have dreamed having in terms of music making in my early days, all within my system.

The rest of it is playing tennis with the devil.

I think that once somebody understands marketing strategies and hypnotism in depth, he takes out of his way a whole bunch of lies and future headaches, for having spend money there, where there was NOT a real need!

I would not put Vista on an old computer but I will use it on my new music computer when I build it.

I'm using Vista Pro now on a laptop I was given. I like it. It seems like a more mature OS. There is no one major reason to use it but rather thousands of little nice improvements. The security features are for people who don't own a router and aren't aware of computer security issues. I turned all that off. I also turned off Aero because it uses a lot of resources. I use the "Windows Classic" look. It's simpler and less distracting for me.

Sure there are reasons, you just don't know about them yet.

Look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... lang=en&tm

cheers