XP? Vista?
My home/travel laptop crapped out early last fall.
I started looking for a replacement and finally ordered a Dell laptop on 01/30, the first day of "consumer Vista." Stupid me, because I had settled on what I wanted the day before which would have come with XP and a free upgrade to Vista.
I am told that I can "turn off" Vista, in effect running the machine on XP, and then restore it in a few months when the bugs are mostly squashed.
My quandary, do I turn it off; or, do I use it at the risk of being inconvenienced and pissed by the bugs?
My question, are any of you running Vista, and if so, what are your thoughts?
4 comments:
I don't have any experience with Vista, nor do I know of anyone who has. I prefer being a not-so-early adopter. In addition to getting a better price (mostly on hardware), you get a chance to benefit from the early people's trials and tribulations.
I've had a lot of trouble with my XP machine this week. I installed a wireless network card, so I finally was able to download a bunch of windows updates. It was a near total disaster. I ended up uninstalling SP2 and restoring my computer to an earlier date. It is still booting and opening things much slower than it was before all this started. I gave up trying to fix it - too aggravating.
Now I know why you opened your tower to see the dust. I am normally with you on slow adoption, I just timed this purchase badly. New laptop comes today and I still don't know what I'm going to do. On your slowness problem: my office computer was running on 256 RAM up until a month or so ago. I put a 512 stick of memory in it and it is new youthful and fast machine. If yours is newer than about four years ago, you have to "pair" memory sticks, which I didn't have to do - 256 + 256 or 512 + 512. It costs about a dollar per gig at a wholesale place. The other thing you might want to do is use System Restore to take your computer back to the day before you installed SP2. Everything that was there then, plus all of the work you did since (but not SP2 and any bugs it created) will still be there.
I remember you describing the things you do on your system, which was pretty basic stuff. I wouldn't be concerned with running Vista for those things, and I'd be surprised if you found bugs.
I am a computer guy, and I had no problems with XP SP2 even though my desktop has over 10 usb devices on it.
Go for it! Microsoft is not Bell South.
Lifehiker,
I am typing this comment on my brand new laptop using Vista on a wireless internet connection. So far Vista works just fine, except that it has announced that it is "incompatible" with ZoneAlarm, AVG and a photo program I have. Also, I went to Microsoft's update site. Vista already has four "important" updates and another six "recommended.
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