Vista article/review/opinion

The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 from http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html

#1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista

Your comments?
Bazza

 

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=135830&highlight=PCWorld

Here's MY opinion!!!

Some loser looking to get a lot of reads by bashing what the common denominator is also bashing.

 

The same was said of XP when it was released. Same of 2000. On and on.

Nothing new? The writer is an idiot.

 

i recently upgraded to vista and i seriously cant find anything wrong with it at all. am i just lucky so far or what? i read posts in the forums nearly every day about how bad vista is without any of the posters explaining just why they think that. is it just they have heard it's bad or have they actually tried it for themselves?

 

Your experience is not unlike mine, wildwolf. Some people just love to hate on new MS products, merely because they can.

 

Ditto.

While I can't say that I've used Vista as much as other users, the things I was doing with it, I EXPECTED to break it, and didn't. (tweaking services I didn't fully understand, some registry hacking)

I think people like to blame the machine for their own inadequacies. WAHHH, I don't know how to use this, IT MUST BE M$'s fault it's broken!

 

Well, I've been using Vista 64 Ultimate for about 6 months or more, and 32 bit version before that. I will say it took a few days chase up Some Vista versions of progs., and then again when I migrated to 64 bit. But that's no more than I would have expected in a relatively new O.S.

Guess people like to be in the so-called 'in-crowd', by repeating rumours and half-baked opinions. Yes there are a few things that bug me with Vista, but many more features that I like, so as said, we have to progress forward at some time, although people tend to like what they are comfortable/familiar with. Personally, I like to be a little on the adventurous side, if anything - but that could be my geeky side speaking, lol!.

 

Well, after trying out the betas and the now the RTM as a slightly above average user, compared to the general public and not people here, I like Vista. It does what I need it to do and does it well IMO. Yes, there are many people trying to back to XP on their Vista pre-installed rigs due to no drivers for their old peripherals and SW incompatibility, one person who had an 8 year old architectural program was complaining that his SW wouldn't run, jeez man, I asked him does he drive an 8 year old car? rolleyes XP is good, no doubt about it, but it's time to move on as was said above and in the year it's been out, things are nicely falling into place IMO.

LOL, a 1 point difference out of 86 makes for a valid statement in a review? Or a headline a week ago.rolleyes

 

Thanks, Halo, for your opinions on the others as well (out of the 15 listed).

I don't own any of them, so can't express an opinion. I posted the article to see what responses it would get. I hope to try Vista early in the New Year on an external hard drive. Bazza

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Dont expect much. Unless the drive is connected to eSATA--its going to perform like garbage.

 

It took them long enough to write the benchmark that came up with that result now it has earn its keep,the programmers have to be payed somehow

 

If I install Vista as a dual boot on a SATA 5400rpm laptop hard drive will it perform any better? Bazza

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If its SATA, sure. But if its connecting to USB or anything like that, no way.

I run Vista on a 4200rpm drive and its snappy a can be.

 

Thanks Adrynalyne. It's definitely SATA on my laptop. Bazza

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