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Eww..... - JackoliciousLegs - 02-28-2008
I bought a laptop for my cousin. Money was an object, so I caved and got him a PC. It's been doing this loading vista crap for 20 minutes.
![[Image: vista.jpg]](http://photos.ojacko.com/junk/vista.jpg)
Right off the bat, why is it taking this long to start up for the first time? Is this some Vista Voodoo©? The screen is much more reflective than my mbp's too. Oh well... it was only $600 shipped w/ tax.
- Evan - 02-28-2008
the reflective screen is a "feature" usually called something like "briteview" or something. you can get them without it.
no idea on the vista stuff. never used it.
- HAULN-SS - 02-28-2008
brightview screens are awesome. You can actually tell what you're doing when you want to do some work in a car or somewhere outside
Re: Eww..... - BLINGMW - 02-28-2008
JackoliciousLegs Wrote:Is this some Vista Voodoo©?It's copy protection, it's much more robust now that the user can't do anything at all. If you DO want to use it for an hour, I think you need to insert a $100 bill into the CD drive.
- Ginger - 02-28-2008
It does final setup when you boot for the first time. I have no idea what it's actually doing, but it doesn't do that again. You'll have to spend a little bit of time removing 3rd party programs and trial offers that the mfg put on there (don't judge vista on those, because Microsoft didn't decide to put them on). I also spent a bit of time disabling superfluous features that Vista used which I didn't like. That help speed the machine up a ton.
- jongp3 - 02-28-2008
I like MAC's new slogan
Don't Give up on Vista..
Honestly, format it and put XP on it, from my experience in working at a Software Test Lab Vista sucks balls.