The Good & The Bad of Windows Vista

http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39164453-2,00.htm
from WinCustomize Forums

Today marks the official launch of Windows Vista as a purchasable product.  Microsoft began selling copies to business customers today so we'll soon be seeing some of the first Vista installs "in the wild" so to speak.  Now, a lot of people are going "So what?" over this latest iteration of the world's most dominant operating system, so the good folks over at silicon.com decided to write their top five reasons to love (and hate) Windows Vista.

Some of the "love" points:

  • Integrated search & Virtual Folders
  • Gadgets (umm... hello?  DesktopX anyone?)
  • Borrowing external storage to boost RAM

And some of the more amusing "hate" points:

  • User Account Protection... so annoying and in-your-face most users will likely disable it
  • Aero Glass will Devour Your Battery
  • Time to get a new PC, your old one won't be good enough.

It's a nice, short analysis piece for anyone who is on the fence and wants to hear about a few of the pros and cons of Vista.

7,230 views 9 replies
Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
LOL! Thanks, Zoomba! Short, succint, and to the point!   
Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
# Time to get a new PC, your old one won't be good enough.


Mine's Vista ready with a 4.4 rating...but Uncle Bill is most welcome to purchase me another with a 5.5 richter scale rating, the toppest end GPU card and one of those new fangled quad core CPU's running around 3.5 GHZ, with 4 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM and a SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro connected to a 7-1 speaker system that'd raise the neighbours rooves within a 500 metre radius as well ....oh, and a nice new 26" flatscreen monitor in widesreen that'll fit perfectly into my desktop's pigeon hole.

Oi, everyone's entitled to dream.




Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Time to get a new PC, your old one won't be good enough.


Misleading. As I've said before on a P4-2.4 512MB class system (I have hundreds of these at work) Vista runs as fast, if not faster on this class box. I did read the article, and yes, it is more specific with something like "not the full Vista Aero experience". There's a huge difference between the two statements.

My "old" home pc (a little over a year, custom self-built) scores 5.9 vista performance index .
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmm...theres the good and the bad, but wheres the ugly?
anyways..i won't be getting vista..way too expensive, xp is good enuf
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Has anyone done laptop battery testing using windowblinds themes? I mean heck, if running WB vista theme instead of the native aero one means the laptop will last an extra hour or so, it's definitely worth it.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think WB is going to use the same 3D compositing system that Aero uses, so I'd expect similar power usage.

On a side note, my over 2 1/2 years old P4 3.2GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon X800 Pro runs Vista just fine. The X800 and the installation hard drive was added to the system after it was built, mind you.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I thought the lower the score the better?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Misleading. As I've said before on a P4-2.4 512MB class system (I have hundreds of these at work) Vista runs as fast, if not faster on this class box.


My wife runs Aero enabled Vista on a Celeron 2.66Ghz, 1.5gig DDR400 Ram, an ATI RadeOn 9850 512mb GPU card and SoundMax onboard audio.....hers is far from a top-end machine yet it runs Vista (score 3.6) quite well, no faster or slower than XP Pro.

Thing is, there's far too much propganda regarding Vista's hardware requirements out there, and if people are gullible enough to swallow it without first running MS' Vista uprgadability tool, then hardware manufacturers are gonna be gleefully be rubbing their hands all the way to the bank.