TBE on 11/1/2009 at 03:16
I bought Vista Ultimate Edition the first day it came out. :( Biggest disappointment of my life. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but it was a big let down. I had it dual booted on my current rig, and it worked slower than XP, it didn't do anything for me. I've got it stuff away on a shelf now.
I also had Vista as the original OS of the laptop I bought in November. It got wiped clean with an XP install. Pain in the ass to find XP drivers for all the new hardware, but it was worth it in the end. I'm dual booting though, because their warranty says they won't cover the thing if the original OS isn't installed.
I'm holding out for my next computer buy when Windows 7 becomes mainstay. This Pentium 4 rig has lasted much longer than I've anticipated. :) :thumb:
Aerothorn on 11/1/2009 at 04:00
To be fair, Windows XP = NT 5.1, and it's my understanding that most people considered that a marked step up from 2000.
Fafhrd on 11/1/2009 at 04:28
I admit to not booting into Vista very often, but when I do it doesn't give me any trouble beyond the initial searching for 64-bit drivers for my Wi-Fi and sound cards. (I actually HAVE to use it to watch 1080p MKVs, because they fall over and die under XP for some reason) But after my experience with the Vista Beta back in the day, I'll wait for the final version of Windows 7 before I try it.
Renzatic on 11/1/2009 at 05:00
Save me and maybe one other guy, everyone on the Win7 boards I'm begging for help on seem to be having a good time with it. Doesn't surprise me much, considering you could almost say that Vista has been a goodly two year long beta for this.
I mean they're almost identical in alot of respects. Save the neat stuff they did with the taskbar (which is hard to explain, but very nifty. I'll post screenshots if and when I get the thing to work right) and a few UI tweaks, you've basically got Vista that sports about half the memory footprint, supposedly performs tons better on lower end hardware, and, by default, doesn't annoy the hell out of you every other chance it gets. It's enough to justify my waiting to upgrade.
bob_doe_nz on 11/1/2009 at 09:07
I'm currently typing this from Win7.
I've never used Vista before, so this is to some extent a learning curve.
But one thing that bugs me is that I cannot get bloody dual boot going correctly.
I need to have the Win7 DVD in the drive at startup to even boot into it :joke:
Nameless Voice on 11/1/2009 at 12:31
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
To be fair, Windows XP = NT 5.1, and it's my understanding that most people considered that a marked step up from 2000.
Well... Windows XP is really just a repackaged Windows 2000 in many ways. One of its main features is that it can be made to look better, and has a few extra features, and then several more features which were added in the service packs (so they don't really count). It's still a slightly optimised Windows 2000 at its core, though.
It's certainly nowhere near the improvement over 2000 that 2000 was over 98 or NT4.
Kin on 11/1/2009 at 15:21
IMO windows 7 should be something like a service pack to vista and not a whole OS. What i am wondering is if Win7 will be capable to upgrade my current vista unlimited with all the programs, antivirus, games.... installed and keep them functioning perfectly within the new OS. Is that possible? never done an upgrade this way.
Ulukai on 12/1/2009 at 18:52
Had this a few days early through my MSDN subscription :cool:
Installed it on a virtual machine - a creaking Celeron D with 1.5Gb RAM and integrated graphics. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad as long as you didn't run any 3D accelerated apps, and a lot better than my first chugging experience of Vista many moons ago.
Installing it on the Big Dog now.
Already mentioned but worth reiterating - install the patch which fixes the MP3 issue before you trash your mp3 collections!
Koki on 12/1/2009 at 19:39
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Right now it's thrashing the harddrive, doing...I dunno...something.
I bet it's one of these things you don't even realize exist until you read a cleanup guide. Like search indexing or something.
I must say I'm dissapointed with Win7. All they did is add ribbons everywhere and stuff no one but Mactards care about(tablet support and whatnot).
"Much faster than Vista, 100MB over normal XP load" is still 100MB over normal XP load. And for what?
