Vista not so "Wow!"?

[mvallevand]

I'm still a command line junkie, (I could probably get by with GBRecord) and I'm definitely come from the classic mode, show extensions, open in same window, don't hide system files class, and I turn off the eye candy and anything automatic, but I don't change don't try and convert others for fear of supporting them forever.

Then again I'm also also lost on my wife's XP MCE laptop and her task bar is unbelievable with all the pre-installed software. The thing is it works well for her and she's never wasted any time, tweaking, tuning or repairing. And she could get support with a phone call to Dell.

As for Vista it is growing on me much more than I expected and I think it is an improvement but like anything new it takes getting used too. Certainly the extra security is new but, I think it will be welcomed. I'm a Linux user too and running as root isn't ever considered acceptable, so why should I expect this in Windows?

When I first installed Vista I hated it, now I would recommend it going forward on modern hardware. Okay I'd also recommend Ubuntu too, if it ran GBPVR.

Martin

[jtokach]

I have the same type of mobile processor in my laptop with AMD. You can knock down the shared video to even 32MB more enough. Unless you're going for high res games or etc then 128MB. These laptops are so fast anyway..
Don't forget to update the BIOS and more features will appear. If you can max the RAM

I haven't tried, but I'd guess that Aero Glass may refuse to run with less than 128. I'll likely upgrade to 1.5GB as that's affordable, but maxing to 4GB would cost like $700, definitely more than than I paid for the laptop.

One surprising note is that the home versions of Vista apparently don't support hyperthreading. You can say what you will about the technology, but I liked the ability to set the affinity in some rare cases. It seemed to improve performance slightly enough to multitask efficiently. Also, at a quick glance in device manager, the HAL names have changed. I have to investigate further to see if I can force a multiprocessor HAL. I don't know how all of this translates on dual core systems.

[stu8080]

Ive been really happy with Vista, Its never crashed to the point i need a reboot, and even in the worst situation, Ctrl-Alt-Del always works!

My only Gripe was with Creative for not bringing their X-Fi drivers out until about 4 months after release, meaning my soundcard didnt work very well (ie no special 3D effects in games etc), but thats not Microsofts fault.

Windows has actually converted me to some of their built in software, i run nothing but Windows firewall and antispyware (behind a router mind you), and use WMP which has a cool 'autosync' feature that automatically cycles the songs on my mp3 player phone everytime i put it on charge.
I loath IE7 though! I gave up and stuck top firefox after puzzling over where simple things are, like history or the stop button!

I reverted my laptop to XP, because I need it for biz first, and for OS f/x a very distant 2nd. I'll update my personal sys when they make a must-play game that is vista-only.

Crysis, i hope!

Looks awsome, but will cost me far too much to upgrade :mad: My once competent games machine would just break down and cry at the sight of this!