Vista.........pooh

[vireo]

I got a new laptop (dual-core, 1G RAM, etc) last July and though I had the option to go with XP, I thought 'might as well be up-to-date and have the Vista option. Well, I persisted for a long time, getting more and more frustrated with the multitude of things that Vista does in a silly way (compared to XP). I thought about going back to XP any number of times, but decided to stick it out - especially as Vista SP1 was on the way.

Well, SP1 was duly loaded when launched but the performance of the machine didnt improve as dramatically as I had hoped. Then, my HDD decided to go belly-up last week, and after Dell shipped me a new one, I took the opportunity to see if XP (which I use on a desktop st home and a work laptop) would be any better on this 'new' laptop. Oh, happy days.....!!! Its nice being back in familiar territory....... its far more "logical" and though its too early to say if the apparent speed of the processor will be improved, I'm now very happy that I reverted to XP.

Makes me wonder where this Vista stuff is going.........

 

[John Armstrong]

Vista is the future

Very clever if you bother with more than 1% of it's cleverness

 

[SOAA]

Everyone was the same with the Windows ME / 2000 to Windows XP migration, but now Windows XP is the preferred OS.
You'll all love Vista soon enough

 

[John Armstrong]

And how many of the "new" systems are configured into the "windows classic" view

 

[richie]

Everyone was the same with the Windows ME / 2000 to Windows XP migration, but now Windows XP is the preferred OS.
You'll all love Vista soon enough

BULL Shite....


Windows ME, you must be young to ever of thought that was any good.

Windows 2000 is XP without the trimmings, and who's son are you any road up...?

 

[Schtum]

Everyone was the same with the Windows ME / 2000 to Windows XP migration, but now Windows XP is the preferred OS.
You'll all love Vista soon enough

No, ME was the worst OS that Microsoft have ever released and it got worse the more you used it.

Vista - on the other hand - I actually quite like; especially the Vista Ultimate, I have on this 'ere laptop.

 

[richie]

No, ME was the worst OS that Microsoft have ever released and it got worse the more you used it.

Vista - on the other hand - I actually quite like; especially the Vista Ultimate, I have on this 'ere laptop.

Maybe he meant NT/2000, lets hope so anyway

 

[SOAA]

Now I never said ME was any good in fact I only used to have it on my PC as a dualboot option along with NT4 so that I could play games, understandably not many games would run on NT4

 

[stonetown]

I got a new laptop (dual-core, 1G RAM, etc) ..

Only 1Gb RAM tsk tsk you should know better than that Vista is happier with 2Gb or more !

The next incarnation of windows desktop will probably need 4Gb RAM despite what the minimum recommendation states.

I was unhappy with Vista when it first came out but you get used to it, there are still a couple of frustrations though, sounds like you are resistant to change

 

[GSwadd]

Give me back DOS! None of this new fangled point and click graphical interface rubbish.

I have used Vista on my wifes laptop and in my books it hides too much from you and treats you like an idiot. You have to fathom through so many windows and menus to get to where you can sort the pc (or do some damage to it) that the novice would have given up. I'll be sticking to XP now I have finally got it set up how I like. Mind you, my work laptop still has 2000 installed as our IT department hasn't caught up with me yet and I quite like it like that too.

 

[John Armstrong]

Work's PC has NT and a sticker saying "designed for XP"

 

[shugie]

I quite like the Ultimate version of Vista, it deals with most modern hardware as efficiently as a Mac is reputed to do, and given enough memory/CPU/disk it performs well enough.

But it is about as fast as a five year old machine with modest resources running Ubuntu, there is an awful lot of bloatware doing nothing very much.

 

[cookie]

12 replies, and no one's said it yet

amazing

 

[Steve]

12 replies, and no one's said it yet

amazing

We thought we'd let you have the honour

How many replacements are you up to now?

 

[cookie]

We thought we'd let you have the honour

How many replacements are you up to now?

3 black macbooks and 2 macbook pros, but no desire to get a (much cheaper) windows lappy instead