Seems I read so much negative stuff... Just wanted to add my 2 cents: I love the "eye candy," the whole experience. I haven't had ANY problems... I've been using since early March.
Care less about the eye candy. Do want the added security. I to have had absolutely no issues to report from this new OS at this time. Just takes a little getting used to, which is normal for anything new. I also did not have any issues because I did the home work first, made sure the drivers for my add on hardware were burned to a disk for later install, as well as knowing which software did have problems. Always good to install clean, not an upgrade, and most importantly, do so on a newer system, and not some entry level or much older system, which will have issues at some point.
Same here, I LOVE Vista, I really am thrilled with the search functions, rather than looking through folder & tree after tree, all I have to do now is start typing in the name and let the machine find it WOW!
It takes some getting used to giving up old conventions but I LOVE IT!
By the way, all my old programs including Word Perfect v9 work without a hitch, I had to install a couple of updates & the newest ATI (7.4) driver but it is all good.
Heck, I've said it before so I will say it again. VISTA is great. Runs all my old peripherals w/o a hitch. Got the needed drivers automatically everytime I need them.
I'll put my 2 cents in too. I've had Vista Premium for 3 months now and love it. The eye candy is nice, the network configuration is totaly automatic and on my 2BG memory laptop, Vista breezes along very fast.
Mine is a fairly new computer bought in January 2007. This came with XP MCE SP-2 but now VISTA OS.
It works fine and I did not have any issues and no freezes either.
I love it and works perfectly viewing You tube!!
Dimension 9200
Intel ViiV Core 2Duo E6400 Processor 2.13GHz 1066 MHz 2MB
Windows XP media Centre Edition 2005 now VISTA OS 32bit
Memory:2048 MB Dual DDR2 533 MHz [2x1024]
Dell Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard & Mouse Dell Wireless Bluetooth
Video Card: 1GB nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 Dual graphics card
Hard Drive: 640 GB Serial ATA RAID 0 Stripe [2x320GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurst cache]
16x DVD +/- RW
16x IDE DVD ROM
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Posted May 5th, 2007 15:00
VISTA Home Premium
Core 2 Duo E6400
2GB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz
19" ultra sharp LCD Monitor
ATI Radeon X1300 pro 256MB DVIVGA
Datasafe 320GB/Norton Ghost
48X Combo and 16X DVD+/-RW
Sound Blaster Audigy MB Audio
Inspeiron 8100 XP Home