Vista

[nick heppinstall]

Well as a Comp Pro for 8 years I thought it would be another 12 months or so before I embraced Vista.

Put it on my home PC ( gaming and media rig ).

I wownt be going back to XP.......

Now work is another matter

[ThePassenger]

Vista as a basic OS seems pretty good by all accounts. with the gumpf disabled it gets better battery life than XP. That being said I'm not sure on the Aero whizzy stuff; seems 'hit n' miss' to me and as far as games go, I've seen tests which show Vista is slightly slower than XP; but that could just be a first generation drivers issue.

[nick heppinstall]

ThePassenger said:

Vista as a basic OS seems pretty good by all accounts. with the gumpf disabled it gets better battery life than XP. That being said I'm not sure on the Aero whizzy stuff; seems 'hit n' miss' to me and as far as games go, I've seen tests which show Vista is slightly slower than XP; but that could just be a first generation drivers issue.

Aero's OK. Just window dressing but with a decent GFX card no probs. I saw all the games tests but in the real world I cant say I've noticed a difference.

[Mattt]

I like it - it's pretty (although pointless), although I do have a few issues.

My Netgear Smart Wizard asks permission to run every time I boot, I can't seem to add it to a safe list. I also, as of last week, cannot connect to the internet through my home network. I can only get local access, so I have to use my neighbours wireless instead!

Any ideas?

[ThePassenger]

nick heppinstall said:

ThePassenger said:

Vista as a basic OS seems pretty good by all accounts. with the gumpf disabled it gets better battery life than XP. That being said I'm not sure on the Aero whizzy stuff; seems 'hit n' miss' to me and as far as games go, I've seen tests which show Vista is slightly slower than XP; but that could just be a first generation drivers issue.

Aero's OK. Just window dressing but with a decent GFX card no probs. I saw all the games tests but in the real world I cant say I've noticed a difference.

Somehow I didn't think there would be much difference, although I'm waiting until there are actual DX10 games around (other than Halo 2 which is what? 4 years old?) to see how they perform. Personally I'm happy with Ubuntu & beryl these days so will probably skip a Vista upgrade until 'Vista 2' (Blackcombe?) appears.