‘Microsoft Vista not for notebooks’

People are "misplacing" the blame for Vista problems

Aside from a few minor issues, practically all Microsoft software works flawlessly. Most of the problems I hear include words like "Nvidia", "Creative", "Norton", "Pastel".

How is it then that companies like "ATI", "Realtek". "AVG" and "Quickbooks" has got no such problems. mmm, if memory serves correctly the former group of companies names appeared, associated with problems when windows 2000 came out too. Who is to blame for bad planning.

Blame the software companies, not Vista. Its pretty darn good.
 
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Vista worked very well on my (Acer) laptop, before it even came out. Even the software switch to toggle wireless worked, with the XP "Launch Manager" and provided I switched on compatibility mode.
 
I agree Vista works flawlessly! It is the programs that run on it that are crap and have not been patched or the hardware manufacturer wants to force you to buy new hardware!

I have also switched back to XP, but not because of Vista but because of bad support from the products I use!

This article should be redirected to state the lack of support from the vendor's side!

How long have we all known about Vista? Quite a long time!
 
What crap im runnig Vista Ultimate on my Fujitsu siemens and it wors perfctly with no problems, runs all smooth here with me. Just use a program called Perfect Disk 8 to defrag your windows vista drive,and it makes it run perfecly with no hassels.
 
nah, it was crap on my toshiba, made me fromat everything, no more sound...
 
In addition to the Vista driver problems for the PC, one needs to check that other peripherals are supported. The bad news is that older devices which work perfectly under XP probably are not.

I installed Vista on my workstation and after suffering major problems with nVidia I finally got it to boot, only to find:

1. No USB memory devices worked (I tried 3 different manufactures) - curiously a version 1 USB video cam did work
2. SCSI scanner didn't work
3. HP MFP with duplex hardware couldn't print duplex
4. nVidia was still unstable.

So I upgraded to XP. The cost of replacing fully functional PC, Scanner and Printer is way too high just in order to be able to run Vista.
 
Hell, My Dell works like a dream. I haven't had a problem with drivers or software... Well except for VMware which I had to get the latest beta...

I would say its all the older crap laptops that are not Vista compatible, you know the left over stock from ASIA that we all get sent(pentium-m's, etc...). If you actually bought a good laptop, then I would say there shouldn't be a problem.

Thats something that blows me mind. You cannot find a system in Singapore that uses anything less than the Duo v1 and even those are scarce, whilst here in South Africa, its totally the other way around...
 
Vista works fine on my Acer Travelmate 4403LMI, I'm using XP drivers for the card reader, but everything else (well, I haven't tested the modem!) works just peachy.
 
No problems with vista, i think its the best MS has done yet.... Pastel does work with vista.... you need the config details speak to me...
 
rpm said:
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5965
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More proof people that you should stick to XP if you're doing any
business work on your PC. You don't need Vista to do the SAME you've
been doing all along.

As for the last sentence in that story, of course there will be a boost to
hardware sales, because the new OS is slower on previous generation hardware or doesn't run with all its 'features'.
 
bekdik said:
So I upgraded to XP. The cost of replacing fully functional PC, Scanner and Printer is way too high just in order to be able to run Vista.
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You're right. The tool (OS) should not be the end in itself. A contractor
shouldn't have to change the way he builds houses because a new hammer
design has appeared on the market.
 
bekdik said:
In addition to the Vista driver problems for the PC, one needs to check that other peripherals are supported. The bad news is that older devices which work perfectly under XP probably are not.

I installed Vista on my workstation and after suffering major problems with nVidia I finally got it to boot, only to find:

1. No USB memory devices worked (I tried 3 different manufactures) - curiously a version 1 USB video cam did work
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I'm not sure why you would suffer major problems with Nvidia, its just the performance that is, or can be, bad. They have full Vista drivers which work perfectly for me every time wrt installing and running Vista. I also don't think those problems you list are in addition, those are also driver problems, if the companies released new drivers for Vista all of those things should work.

And no USB memory devices.. are you sure? You mean flash drives, because they all work on Vista, and even my wireless adapters work fine. I really don't see how flash drives can't work on Vista.
 
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PeterCH said:
As for the last sentence in that story, of course there will be a boost to
hardware sales, because the new OS is slower on previous generation hardware or doesn't run with all its 'features'.
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Well I know you hate Vista, but just how far back is one generation of hardware to you?

All you need is 1GB of RAM... hardly any graphics card and most good onboard will do. For the CPU you are fine with even a 3200+, now who actually has a worse PC than that and is still upgrading the OS instead of their hardware?
 
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Well I know you hate Vista, but just how far back is one generation of hardware to you?

All you need is 1GB of RAM... hardly any graphics card and most good onboard will do. For the CPU you are fine with even a 3200+, now who actually has a worse PC than that and is still upgrading the OS instead of their hardware?
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Perhaps its not your intention but that means that only a few graphics cards will work.
 
Likewise. I bought an HP with Vista on it, and have had no problems using it. I would wait before upgrading a business machine, though.
 
haha i love this press release.
it only takes a small amount of brains to get vista working correctly.
I agree its not for the average home user yet due to these complications however I have got Pastel working on vista. I got the printer working after reading on the net "If you have already upgraded to vista and are using this printer, we recommend that you buy a new printer"

Other apps such as anti-virus, nero etc just require a special ver.
 
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