Vista reviews

He is right you know - I wont buy VISTA until SP1 is out. I've seen it on my friends PC (he uninstalled it cause of lack of drivers from nVidia for DX10). There is no doubt that it is a way (or at least is going to be) better operating system than XP which is great. VISTA is just not right for me or any other developers I know...
 
This isn't such a great review, the anandtech one was much better and actually looked into new/improved features.

He makes some stupid errors, like how you can't go back on the 3D-flip view.. you just use your netscroll, I never did it any other way.

And Aero does not use so much of your graphics card that the fan has to be at full speed, its the same as XP, must have been a early beta driver problem. I have the same card.

He mentions a lot of things that he even admits to being driver problems, they hardly belong in a review of Vista, he could just mention that a lot of drivers are still being developed and stabilized for Vista.

Is he even tested the Final version? The security center shuts off fine for me by just disabling the service. No other messages.

Hmm.. Firefox works fine as the default browser.
 
Well, I've had a pretty good run with Vista Ultimate the last 2 weeks... Considering i've had 2 Bluescreen crashes and windows actually knew it had them... Not sure yet if its good or bad, as i'm still not sure why i had them...will have to wait and see...

As for drivers - I can't find drivers for my MSI Bluetooth Dongle and my secondary VGA card MX440 won't fire up so my 3rd monitor is disabled. - but not a biggie, still have XP installed and waiting.

I'm not sure if DX10 is the reason but gaming is REALLY something on vista - NFS Most Wanted had a couple of grahpical hitches in XP here and there, but with Vista - none whatsoever!. The PC actually feels faster.

When I've had WindowBlinds with all the Skins installed to make XP work like vista, sidebar the works... XP actually slowed down, she was not a happy cow!. But Vista... Well, she has all the frills and more and she's Grazing MUCH better with all the fancies enabled!.

Ripping Mp3's I have picked up distortion - and my guess is that vista is building it in - part of the DRM, because in XP ripping 2 discs at the same time doesnt consume much resources... not much more than 5 - 10%, in Vista 100%!!! - so this has raised my eyebrows!.

I'll be installing a third smaller hard drive and installing Kubuntu onto it soon, time to test the waters because if the DRM thing is going to be an issue, then i'm not sure i'll be part of the VISTA world - maybe just for gaming!.

It surprises me that there are people so clever that they can write operating systems like Vista, and others that can crack the work that's gone into it - but none, and i mean NONE of them have bothered to write an engine for Linux that will make Games etc compatable with it, and the best Linux has to offer is WINE!..... - I honestly think that once the Linux people have made it possible to run Win apps Perfectly in Linux, people will flock over!
 
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I've installed the Vista Transformation Pack 6.0 final for XP recently - and if you can tell me what looks different from my desktop & Vista, you'll get a prize!!

Here ya go :
MyVistaDesktop.jpg
 
Vista? My review!!! Load of cr@p, seen it and will not even bother with it.

"If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
-- Bill Gates on the solid code base of Win9X

Interviewer: Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer?
Gates: No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study
great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to
the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of
their operating system.
-- Bill Gates, from "Programmers at Work" by Microsoft Press, interview with Bill

Not much has changed..

I will stick to my trusted Linux Fedora thank you very much
 
Hmmm, I've tried various flavours of Linux, and I consider myself fairly knowledgable on PC's etc, but I just don't have the patience to learn Linux. For me Vista is a good fit, I just play a few games, use MS Office and thats about it. If I have to divide up how much my time is worth to me (and the cost of Vista and Office), I can get stuck into what I want to do and use Vista straight away. Anyway, I love Vista, had it on my PC for a few days so far, and works like a charm for me.
 
BTech said:
RU CRAZY!! Friday nights are way more important online than that and everyone knows that new wares is better than sex!! (as said one geek to another:p )
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This is absolutely true! AND you don't have to respect her in the morning. FSCK sex - warez FTW!
:D
 
kingrob said:
I've installed the Vista Transformation Pack 6.0 final for XP recently - and if you can tell me what looks different from my desktop & Vista, you'll get a prize!!

Here ya go :
MyVistaDesktop.jpg
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well, the clock in your taskbar is different... and the calander widget looks different to the one that ships with vista.

Can yours do Flip-3D with all it's smooth transitions with several windows of live video and 3d accelerated graphics?

The major plus of Aero graphics is that all the graphics stuff in windows is now handled by the graphics card, and not the CPU, like in XP, therefore your CPU has more free time and your system ends up being more stable.

Anyways, Vista isn't just about Aero, stability and performance wise, it's a whole lot better than XP, and you won't be getting that by installing that Vista transformation whateveryoucallit. From what i've heard it just causes more problems in XP, slows down it down, and is a bitch to get rid of.
 
Are those prices correct? What happened to differential pricing isn't feasible?
 
nGAGEd55 said:
well, the clock in your taskbar is different... and the calander widget looks different to the one that ships with vista.

Can yours do Flip-3D with all it's smooth transitions with several windows of live video and 3d accelerated graphics?

The major plus of Aero graphics is that all the graphics stuff in windows is now handled by the graphics card, and not the CPU, like in XP, therefore your CPU has more free time and your system ends up being more stable.

Anyways, Vista isn't just about Aero, stability and performance wise, it's a whole lot better than XP, and you won't be getting that by installing that Vista transformation whateveryoucallit. From what i've heard it just causes more problems in XP, slows down it down, and is a bitch to get rid of.
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Also, not all my icons have changed to vista style - like the folder icons. And my dock has disappeared. Anyone know how to fix these probs?
 
nGAGEd55 said:
The major plus of Aero graphics is that all the graphics stuff in windows is now handled by the graphics card, and not the CPU, like in XP, therefore your CPU has more free time and your system ends up being more stable.

Anyways, Vista isn't just about Aero, stability and performance wise, it's a whole lot better than XP, and you won't be getting that by installing that Vista transformation whateveryoucallit. From what i've heard it just causes more problems in XP, slows down it down, and is a bitch to get rid of.
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Yeah but the interface is the chief selling point. The rendering of the pretty gfx is just bollocks - heck I use Windows Classic interface myself, never used Fisher-Price. Vista is not more stable at present, it requires more memory
and CPU time to do the same things as XP (is is always with MS Operating Systems) and at the same time newer g-fx cards don't have proper drivers for it yet.

BTW the G-fx card (DirectX) does a fair bit of accelleration under XP too.
2D graphics accelleration has been with us since 1990.

Someone here installed Vista and had 2 crashes in 2 weeks. My XP has only crashed about 2-3 times in over 2 years.
My 5 month Mac OSX Tiger has not crashed yet. More stable eh? Really?
 
PeterCH said:
Yeah but the interface is the chief selling point. The rendering of the pretty gfx is just bollocks - heck I use Windows Classic interface myself, never used Fisher-Price. Vista is not more stable at present, it requires more memory
and CPU time to do the same things as XP (is is always with MS Operating Systems) and at the same time newer g-fx cards don't have proper drivers for it yet.

BTW the G-fx card (DirectX) does a fair bit of accelleration under XP too.
2D graphics accelleration has been with us since 1990.

Someone here installed Vista and had 2 crashes in 2 weeks. My XP has only crashed about 2-3 times in over 2 years.
My 5 month Mac OSX Tiger has not crashed yet. More stable eh? Really?
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I agree with what Ngaged said in his post, it isn't quite the same thing. I was running that transformation pack before using Vista, it isn't really the same as the true native interface.

And obviously Vista is going to be more recourse heavy, every new edition of Windows is, I'm not sure why people are still surprised. Vista actually handles the extra memory much better, and makes use of 2GB of ram better than XP would.

Those two crashes I assume might have been corrupt/incorrect driver crashes. Those are the only type of crashes I have had on my Vista install in over a month. I would just get frustrated with finding newer drivers for my wireless or the fact that M-Audio have no Vista drivers for my soundcard and try to force incorrect drivers on them, causing a crash.. :p Pretty stupid.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
I agree with what Ngaged said in his post, it isn't quite the same thing. I was running that transformation pack before using Vista, it isn't really the same as the true native interface.

And obviously Vista is going to be more recourse heavy, every new edition of Windows is, I'm not sure why people are still surprised. Vista actually handles the extra memory much better, and makes use of 2GB of ram better than XP would.

Those two crashes I assume might have been corrupt/incorrect driver crashes. Those are the only type of crashes I have had on my Vista install in over a month. I would just get frustrated with finding newer drivers for my wireless or the fact that M-Audio have no Vista drivers for my soundcard and try to force incorrect drivers on them, causing a crash.. :p Pretty stupid.
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I haven't had any probs with the transformation thing yet and i'm only running 512MB RAM and a slow CPU...and very slow GPU...
 
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