ELGWretched said:
By the way Andy, you might be able to accept mediocre products, but I
don't.
When I pay for stuff that has been released as a final product, I expect
it
to work as advertised. As far as the x-box...HAVE ONE! As far as BG is
concerned...DUH! I know he isn't listening, but then again thats the
WHOLE
POINT. NOONE IS! Gamers are the ones that shell out the most money for
the
latest and greatest. NOT HP business users. They are content with 5 year
old POS'es. If you advertise a gaming platform, THEN MAKE IT A GAMING
PLATFORM!
Heh, I got my Vista for $20, and my system runs great. Sorry you're having
so many problems. As a gamer I never shell out more than I have too. As a
gamer, I'm perfectly content with 5 year old POS, if the game works on it. I
spent more money on my XBox 360 the other day than I have on my PC in the
last 4 years.
Gamers do NOT shell out the most money for PCs, some of the businesses I
work for just shelled out $2400 a pop for new Sony Viao notebooks (you know
those ones with the real thin screens?), and paid me a decent chunk of
change to set them up for them. IMO the computers are crap, they run slow as
sin dispite being the latest centrino duos, but they got portability down
pat. So don't tell me Gamers are the only ones that shell out lots of money
for the latest and greatest. Businesses that budget $5000 per computer, talk
about money... I won't even go into how much governement agencies spend on
this stuff.
I remember hearing like 5 years ago that Microsoft made over $23k per SECOND
on licensing fees alone (Pieces of paper that say you can run this program
on more than 1 computer). Assuming that number has gone up it's probably
more like $40k/second now. You think gamers spend that kind of money? Vista
has put in some neat things that (once smoothed out) could make Vista the
best gaming platform for the PC ever, and the Games for Windows branding has
taken great strides to improve labeling and system standardization for
games, but that's probably like 10% of the focus on Vista. I don't know what
the other 90% goes too, honestly there are some neat new things in Vista,
but nothing I am terribly impressed with.
I cut out a bunch of this message, I lost my train of thought somewhere
around here. If you want a good gaming OS, get an XBox 360 or a Wii.
(Wii60!)
-A.