Interesting..... After reading several reviews ( just like yours), I was thinking that there was no point in trying Vista. The required hard drive space alone puts me off. And the more I read that it doesn't really do anything more than what I have now, the more I am put off. Like you said, if all I want is the fancy new interface, I may as well just load up Kol's excellent Vista WB theme, (the one that isn't available anymore) and hey presto, I have the look without the expense. I have the new WMP, IE7, and the new Live Messenger, ( which looks great when you skin it with a Vista skin) so I'll be happy with what I have and save my money to buy Christmas presents for my kids.

I'm sick of Vista, have been for months. I can't see it is going to do more for me than Windows already does. So I'll stick with what I've got. A good philosophy is to let those at the 'bleeding edge' suffer all the failures and iron out the bugs before jumping on the bandwagon. Makes sense

The only reason some will pay double the price for Ultimate instead of Basic is because they think it makes them look cool. Can't have tatty old Basic now can we "I've got Ultimate......(flexes right forearm up and down)" Sad.

iron out the bugs before jumping on the bandwagon. Makes sense

I remember when windows ME was the hot OS - yeah - hot alright , my computer crashed twice in one year - and then microsoft said it was a defect in that series of ME...uh huh.

The only reason some will pay double the price for Ultimate instead of Basic is because they think it makes them look cool. Can't have tatty old Basic now can we "I've got Ultimate......(flexes right forearm up and down)" Sad.

Exactly - but its always been that way with " new " stuff. Some just have to have it - Since I upgraded to XP I have not had any problems at all - its been years. Why would I go lookin for one ?

Fairyy - Vistaless

Copy-paste the content of this thread into a text editor....

do a text replace of each reference to 'XP' with 'win98'

...and each reference to 'Vista' with 'XP'....

Reread.

 

 

Nothing new....

....at all....

remember when windows ME was the hot OS - yeah - hot alright , my computer crashed twice in one year - and then microsoft said it was a defect in that series of ME...uh huh.

Seems the rule of thumb with Microsoft more so even than the others is to wait until the OS is well established. Win 98 had a lot of bugs, many of which were corrected with 98 SE, and Windows ME completely BLEW! My experience with ME made me reluctant to even try XP, which I actually LOVE (although I FAR prefer XP Pro to XP Home).

Thanks for the reviews. I'm watching the reviews on Vista, and may try to talk my instructor into letting us test it on one of our machines to see what we think of it. But I'm still quite undecided.

It would be nice to see some 3rd party software previews just to see what is possible.
I suppose noone wants to tip their hand at this point.

Still, it's fun to try it out if you have a spare hard drive. I think there can be little doubt that Vista will become the norm at some point. I don't see it becoming another ME. It was very stable while I ran it. But the price is astronomical. Couple that with hardware upgrades and you're talking about a major investment for many people.

Maybe they'll bring it down a notch or ten in price. I kinda doubt it though.

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BTW, thanks Fairyy~. You're good people.

I would definitely not buy it at the suggested price...way to much money...and I'm not to keen on purchasing another set of bugs to work out....my xp works just fine and I see no reason at all to fix what ain't broken.

"The default install of Vista is no better than my own personal, tweaked out version of XP, with loads of third party programs."

Well, I'm not sure who you are quoting here...but, while apples to oranges may apply, the default "Ultimate" version of Vista should damn well make my XP look bad. It doesn't. The "tweaking" comes from the same programs that I will have with Vista....so you are the one blowing the smoke.
Of course you haven't tried it, so you are judging my review based on nothing other than personal opinion.
(of me I'm guessing).

My point, though you cannot seem to comprehend it is this......

I can spend $xxx to have a lightning fast, tweaked out version of XP

-or-

I can spend several hundred dollars MORE than $xxx to have Vista Ultimate, which does little more than my BASIC XP with Object Desktop. THEN....I can spend even more money to try and get it working as fast as XP would be with half the setup.
1/2 the $ (XP tweaked) = 2x the setup (- Vista)

Now, if you want to shell out the extra dollars for (less than) nothing? That's your decision. Though I would strongly suggest that you try out Vista first.

As far as the quote goes..........
I speak for myself. If I need your help I'll ask for it........thanks.

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oooooo-kay, so... Anyway, I too was disillusioned with, in particular, Beta2, and to a much lesser extent RC1. I wanted Vista to totally wow me, and I also wanted every little annoyance I had with XP (and no arm flexing here, I run XP-Home!) gone. But some annoyances remain, the System Sound and Mouse Cursor selection GUIs are unchanged, for example. On the other hand, I can understand that these _are_ little annoyances, things that very few, relatively, users of the OS will ever even encounter, much less use frequently. And MS had to prioritize where the effort went, and decide which aspects of the OS were worth the time to change. I am also a bit disappointed that the OS itself only touches the surface of the potential involved with the new technology Vista introduces. You don't have to read too many of Brad's posts on "Sparkle" (now Expressions Interactive Designer) and .Net3.0 (nee Windows Presentation Foundation) from earlier this year and late last year to get pretty psyched about the posssibilities. Vista itself seems to be just a tease--it seems we'll have to wait for new apps (although not necessarily "third party") to really find out if the user experience is better, that productivity can be improved along with all the security considerations, etc. Because the potential is huge. Think of an ObjectDock that is a cylinder, spinning like a slot machine to expose whatever individual item you might want (just an enthusiastic hobbyist brainstorming here). Think of expanding the desktop metaphor into the third dimension, allowing stacks of things, easy to visualize and organize. I think customization for Vista will really knock our socks off, but I don't understand, again, why MS didn't do more to wow us from the first boot up. So, in the end, the best comparison might not be how cool each OS can be on X amount of dollars, or how fresh installs compare, but how fully tweaked, customized, user specific setups compare. Will I be able to do more, faster, on Vista, and have more fun doing it? I think so. Eventually.

Okay, there's going to be some who won't like Vista and stick with XP, but that's their choice, just like it's mine to run with Vista when it eventually goes gold.

At the moment I'm running the 5728 update to RC1 and I'm happy with what I've seen so far....with tweaks and improvements yet to come prior to final release, Vista will become as stable/reliable as XP. It's only early days yet, so harsh criticism of Vista at this stage I think is unwarranted, particularly when it comes from someone who hasn't even tested the betas to have even the slightest feel for it.

There is one criticism, however, I do agree with, and that is of the proposed price range of the Vista versions. MS really needs to reconsider that if they want the average PC user to get enthusiastic about upgrading...if they don't then sales will be disappointing and fall short of their hopes/expectations.

As for the hardware requirements, well yeah, Vista is more resource intensive than XP, but my it runs adequately on my wife's machine: 2.66ghz Celeron, 512mb DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon 9550 256mb, Soundblaster Live. Okay, her Vista experience is currently 2.9 and not so fast, but with the extra gig of RAM going in next week, her overall performance will improve and the score to 3.3, which according to MS is a reasonable rating for most home users.

Now my wife's PC is by no means top end or high performance, so if Vista runs on it and meets her needs, then it will run reasonably well on most mid-range PC's for the average user. The only person who'll want to get more out of it is the power user, and if they are indeed a genuine power user, then their machine is already more than Vista capable, so I don't understand this bitching about hardware requirements. The only people who might have a Vista performance concern would be those running something like a 486 dinosaur...in which case, they'd be pushing to get the best out of XP as it is and should be looking at a hardware upgrade anyway.

The fact remains, Vista will soon become MS' flagship OS and we're going to have to get used to it....like it or not, that's where Windows is headed.

The people complaining about Vista's price are more than likely the people who will spend $30 a week at Starbucks and $40 a week on fast food or a couple of pizza deliveries without a thought.

Not I, boss....don't order pizzas or fast food. I'm already carrying several extra kilos without going for any of that finger lickin greasy stuff, and I don't want my missus needing a water bottle and packed lunch to walk around me to check if the new threads I might wanna buy look okay on.

The wife and I may eat out once in a blue moon at a fav pub that does a fantastic 'roast of the day' special for five bucks each, but other than that we shop wisely and eat at home. However, I do agree that many will complain about Vista being too highly priced, while living the high life of drinking, gambling and eating in fancy restaurants...other pleasures that don't come at all cheap. But again, not I, boss! When Vista finally hits the shelves, I will decide on which version I want (probably Ultimate) and happily install it without regretting a single cent.

For me it's a matter of priorities. If you want something badly enough, you'll do without the luxuries and 'don't needs' to get it..which is how I managed to deck out my custom rig with all I want/need and give me a Vista experience of 4.6. However, when I hear people complaining about Vista's price range, it usually comes down to comparisons between XP and Vista, that Vista is "way over-priced for just an OS" and just not an economical upgrade when they're more than happy with XP. So if that's the general sentiment across the buying public, from a sales point of view, then perhaps MS should reconsider its Vista pricing to help make it a more attractive package to those sitting on the fence because of price.

Consider what you're getting out of Vista for the price and years of use you will get from it and the price is no big deal.

Given the possibilities and potential of Vista, the years of development to make it a more stable and attractive OS than XP, I personally see it as a great investment for my PC and don't think it's over-priced....tho I wouldn't complain if MS decided to knock a few bucks off the RRP.

O.k., I see how it goes around here.

Windows Vista is the GREATEST THING SINCE BUTTERED BREAD! They should RAISE the price! Why does Microsoft deny itself the rewards that it seeks? It's those bastard liberal lefty's again! Can't let a guy make an honest couple billion!

Now are all of you happy? This place is such a joke. Don't create a forum if you don't want to hear EVERYONE'S opinion! Better yet, don't criticize another person's opinion if you have NO EXPERIENCE with the software that you speak of! Blue Dev? You are EXACTLY what is wrong with this place. Create your own f'n quotes, personally attack someone for no good reason at all. That's exactly how all of this "shit on you", "shit on me" got started. But you damn sure cash that check that I helped pay for don't you? KMA Do it thrice!

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Guy . . . this post died a natural forum death back in November.  Why are you resurrecting it just to complain about forum community?

You added no new value to the thread.