naveen_reloaded said:
Its funny here that many dont support visita or xp?
This is my opinion..dont wage a war.
Vista as far as i know is a os of the future just like xp when it came years back.
I like vista.personally i think instead of supporting year old hardwares,i think it better to set the bar high for next gen system.this is how technology work.buy a ultra fast system today,it will become obsolete by 8 months.
Anyway my system stop perfectly.no problem.
Waiting for SP1 to HIT the net.
I agree with you. But breaking compatibility with hardware everytime you launch something new is not fine. PC owners are better off a little that they can buy hardware at cheap rates. But what do you say about laptop owners for whom upgrading almost always means a new one? Is it affordable? May be for you, but not for me, and many others i guess. I just buyed my laptop 10-11 months ago and its obsolete now! This means that every 8 months i should keep 35-40K rs ready to keep up with technology? Is this the right cost for leveraging new technology? I am also a die hard Vista and Fedora Linux user. I too like both linux and Windows very much (I even reaaalllly love MacOS, but dont have a mac to satisfy my desires.)
Supporting 'Year Old Hardware' as you said is something that Microsoft HAS carried out. 915 is Vista capable. The thing is, if a competitive technology can work flawlessly on the same hardware, Then yours should work, may be in a minimalistic manner. AERO theme is tightly integrated with various graphics technologies of the OS but on the surface, its just a theme. Even when a greatly designed game finds a piece of hardware, it applies comensations like falling back to the version of technologies that that hardware supports. True intel 915 doesn't support pixel shader 3.0 in hardware, but is there no pixel shader support in 915 at all? Shouldn't there be a fallback in place? Ya absence of Hardware Scheduler is an issue, but then Compiz Fusion shows it clearly that the effects that end users are talking about can be achieved without it also.
What i am talking about is that there should be some Reduced Functionality mode, using which the features that are unavailable in harware(and the features that depend on these unavailable features) may be not used, or some fallback can be used if available. But the things that can work flawlessly on a hardware should work on it. Its not a game, its an OS. It can do that.
But as always there is no one to hear it. Nobody wants to look at customers needs if business is going on nicely. Its not only Microsoft, its with every company in the world. Acer, for example with their Hritik Roshan ads, lure customer towards their laptops. But anybody would like to hear what they did to me?
The laptop i buyed got a fault in DVD drive 3rd day after the purchase. I requested a replacement since it was only 3 days since i bought it. But they showed me their 'Warranty Policy' and said they will repair it. They took it for 6 days and were not answering when they'll return it (A DVD drive replacement takes them that much ). I only got my laptop after i directly called the Area Manager of ACER for U.P West region and warned him about it.
Then, after 6 months, i got a problem in Graphics card. The games (or 3d apps for the matter of fact) ran for sometime and then hangup for 5-10 minutes. Sometimes they come back sometimes they dont. And the times when they come back, they ran smoothly for another 10 mins and then again same thing happens. After 5-6 days, i got a nice big, wide white line in the middle of my LCD. This was the limit. I gave the laptop to Acer 'Care' (Or should i say Acer Doesn't Care) They first of all refused to understand what the problem was. All they were accepting was the LCD problem. Its only after i showed them whats happening by playing a game for 20 minutes in their office, during which they all were smiling on me, like i am a doing some joke. At last they took my laptop and then said that they'll return it after 3 days. After 3 days they said that they dont have an LCD in stalk and they'll have to order it from Bangalore and it'll take 10 days. After 10 days they said that the bangalore warehouse also doesn't have it and they had ordered it from Singapore. That took another 15 days. Add to it the fact that to inquire about my laptop, i had to call 3 numbers. All his happened at New Delhi.
And now, after a month, when the warranty period is over a few days ago, The graphics problem has reappeared. I know they had applied some dirty trick to let the hardware run for a few days more untill the Warranty period is over. I dont have any choice now, but to not use 3d graphics related softwares and games on my system, or to get a completly new system or to PAY THOSE FREAKS SOME MONEY TO REPAIR IT .
I know this story is not relevant here but i just want to show you the CUSTOMER SERVICE of a big j of computer hardware in the market today.
