What OS does your school use?

[Recursion]

They're too smart to pay for Apple systems as they're too expensive. They're smart here, they upgraded all the computers from Vista to XP, yes I mean upgraded. So hopefully we will never have to use Vista.

If you knew anything about Windows and technology you would not have posted that in all honesty.

[Misawa]

Windows XP and Vista; has about 300 computers.

[Leetzgirl]

If you knew anything about Windows and technology you would not have posted that in all honesty.

i actully lol'd for like 10 mins.

[HotelUser]

If you knew anything about Windows and technology you would not have posted that in all honesty.

And why would this be?

[Technologic]

Windows Vista in the ICT department, XP in the library computer suite, xp in the language labs, OSX in the art department

[Moh]

Windows 3.1

Naa, Windows XP.

Next year, we get linux laptops though

[OmgitsAmanda]

Windows XP and OSX

[Flisker]

Windows XP all over with RM Community Connect 3 on it. I hate it. When everyone is logging in in a ICT class its like MAJOR LAG! and when i go in the technicians room the server is like flashing like hell etc its going crazy lol. But we have these "NEW" RM computers meant to have Vista Basic on but school downgraded them and they have 1GB RAM etc but its all done on network. Why the hell cant they use cache! its a lovely invention!

[Recursion]

And why would this be?

Vista actually has far better memory management for one thing.

[HotelUser]

Vista actually has far better memory management for one thing.

So you insult me by saying I have no knowledge of hardware nor software because I rather back XP as opposed to Vista? That's ridiculous. It's personal preference. I don't care if Vista is supposed to have improved RAM management, it's pointless due to how much more system resources Vista occupies. (I've been forced to use Vista on my laptop for a year now) the user account control is pointless, many useful applications are incompatible with Vista (including a handful of games. FS9 wont work for many with the aero experience, and I've tried it on two Vista machines to discover that my display driver fails..not impressed). My Intel Centrino Duo came with Home Premium, and I couldn't even handle the aero-experience without sticking an extra 2gbs of ram in my system. XP beats Vista in benchmarking tests (quite disappointing, seeing as it's with SP1) http://news.cnet.com/Windows-XP-outs...3-6220201.html . Here's a breakdown I got from http://blogulate.com/content/xp-beats-windows-vista/:




The only features I admire on Vista are the indexing feature and the extra undo options in mspaint. I can get Google desktop and get indexing on XP.

The minimum specifications for XP are also much lower than Vista. HTC is selling 800mhz CPU, 512MB UMPCs equipped with Vista...that’s totally ridiculous.