Vista

[Cypher]

I'm in the market for a new computer and was wondering what the pros and cons of vista are.

[sluggish]

Vista sucks.  Make sure your vista machine is twice as powerful as your XP machine - in order to run a little slower than your XP machine.

Oh, and if your peripherals are more than two years old, be prepared to buy new ones...

You could always give Dell an extra $100 to load your new puter with XP.

[scot12b]

I have vista. I heard all the problems with it ,I have not had one yet. Maybe a year ago or when it first came out but seems to work  fine for me.

[Maverick]

I have vista. The only thing I have lost is the older printer I have. The Vista driver simply won't load. If I need to do any printing I just do it with the lap top. I am still using the same Word program that I have had for several years. It works just fine as do the old games I have including Red Alert2 and other Command and Conquer games. I have been playing Dawn of War and two follow up games for it with no problem at all.

Frankly I find that Vista isn't quite the beast it was reputed to be. I still would rather be under win xp but unfortunately it costs more to load it than to simply use vista on a new machine from HP.

[Oogly50]

Honestly, I don't know what the problem is.

I just got a brand new computer with vista, and it runs great...  Don't really see a difference.

Why, what's wrong with my vista?  Is it broken???  

[Hoarach]

I have had absolutely no problems with Vista.  I just got my laptop last month and it runs all games fine and runs AH easily with textures all the way up and on the high res pack.

My laptop has a AMD X2 processor, a nvidia 7600GO vid card, 2GB RAM, and a 160GB HD and I have no problems.  

I really dont see why people say Vista is so bad.  

My only complaint is that AMD hasnt released a dual core patch yet.

[mg1942]

Vista is very stable, but slow.

[bcadoo]

I make my living working on computers.  I was in on the alpha and betas of vista.  I wouldn't say that vista is 'bad'.  It is however the answer to a question that did not exist.  


Its so called security is obtrusive, so much so that I often turn it off at my customers request.

The interface is greatly different from previous versions; which requires you to re-learn where everything is. (if you wanted to do that, why not get a mac?)

It is S.......L.......O......W !!!!!!!


Its not the bullet proof OS that Microsoft touted.

IMHO:  There is no compelling reason to 'upgrade' (ha) to vista....other than to put money into MS bank account.

[Halo]

I've had Vista a couple years on an HP laptop.  Runs fine.  Still using two XP desktops.  They run fine too.  

Well, okay, true -- lots of updating at least weekly and slow loading in all three, but all three run fine.  All in all, XP and Vista seem lots better than all the earlier Windows they replaced.

[bozon]

Somehow every time someone comes with a Vista laptop and connects it, it starts to do updates, yells that it wants to reboot and doesn't like no for an answer. I'm sure the auto updates can be disabled, but damn this is annoying.

It simply does not give you anything that XP doesn't give you. If you want a fancy interface, MacOS and even Linux do a better job for far less resources. In fact, I am writing this on a 5 years old computer with 512 MB ram, onboard lousy graphic card, that runs ubuntu Linux with a prettier interface than Vista.

[Gixer]

Had Vista 64bit for some time, usual whines are just that and I'd bet majority are just going on by what someone else has said or they have read in another forum rather then first hand experience..

I've had no problems with it and wouldn't go back to XP. SP comes out next month.


...-Gixer

[bcadoo]

Originally posted by Gixer
Had Vista 64bit for some time, usual whines are just that and I'd bet majority are just going on by what someone else has said or they have read in another forum rather then first hand experience..

I've had no problems with it and wouldn't go back to XP. SP comes out next month.


...-Gixer

I've worked on over 5000 PC's. From DOS to Vista, Linux, (and even got OSX to run on a PC!)  I speak from personal experience.

I will tell you what I've read about the SP's. (Since I'm not testing for MS anymore)

XP SP3 makes it 10% faster, Vista SP1 NO CHANGE in perfermance. (which has been clocked at half of XP)

[Shuffler]

Vista can be as fast as XP if you turn off most all the garbage that makes it Vista.

I'll let the Guinea Pigs sort the issues before I'll ever get Vista. Can anyone say SP1??

[Chairboy]

My wife uses Vista on her new laptop and hates it.  It came preinstalled, it's slow, it's non-intuitive for anyone who's used a computer before (it might be great for folks who are just now trying out these 'television typewriter' machines, but not for anyone with technical experience as far as I can tell).

Vista might be fine in another year or so, no idea, but I have no interest in installing it on my computer right now, there's no benefit I can see.  I'll stick w/ XP until I feel Vista reaches a point where it's an actual move upwards and not down.  

Of course, I might have to wait until the next OS.  Windows Me (Millenium) is a good example of an MS OS that just straight up sucked, it never got better.

[Chairboy]

Shuffler, I've shut off every little bit of UI fluff on her Vista lappy, cut a bunch of services that she wasn't using, uninstalled a bunch of OEM cruft, and weeded a lot of junk out of her startup tasks & the registry.

...and it's still slow.