Vista makes me sad

The Inquirer (excerpt) ^ | January 30, 2007 | Charlie Demerjian

[HAL9000]

Excerpt -

VISTA WILL LAUNCH today with fanfare, parties, hypocrisy, hollow promises and tame reviews. For me, it is something different, it makes me sad.

MS will tell you that Vista is the next great thing in every way, it took billions of dollars to develop, millions of man-hours, and undoubtedly will be the best selling OS ever launched. The problem is that Vista brings almost nothing to the table that can't be described by as three year old as "shiny".

Let's look at it this way, ask yourself what good new features Vista brings to the table. Most will respond that it has Aero Glass, a really pretty UI. How may other things does it bring that are positives? I can't honestly think of one, and I'll bet if you ask the next ten people you run into, they won't be able to tell you any either.

Repeat the same exercise in the negative, what bad new things does Vista bring? Massive crushing DRM infections, unacceptable licence terms, bloated hardware requirements, and a list of cut features long enough to paper your bathroom. To be fair, the next ten people you ask probably won't know that part either.*

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[Echo Talon]

lots of people complaining now but they will have the best when they get it and i'd suggest getting Vista Ultimate because it has the built in back-up feature's... save your backup to extra hard drive or dvd... built in no need to buy acronis true image.. or nortons ghost.

[R. Scott]

I wonder how much of it is just new for the sake of new. I went from Windows 96 to 98 to Millennium and 2000 and now run XP. I preferred 98. Every new “upgrade” becomes ever more “user friendly”, and I am tired of having an operating system that continually tries to second guess me. It usually guesses wrong.

[raybbr]

bump to me for later because I am thinking of buying a new laptop.

[Echo Talon]

Complete Backup & Restore Available in Vista Ultimate, Business and Enterprise...

Home Premium only has file backup & restore, which is ok but not a complete image... Vista Ultimate or Business(if you don't need media center) seems to be the one...

[Echo Talon]

how much $ are you wanting to spend? Laptops are coming with Vista on them now. :)

Gateway Notebook with Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Mobile Processor T2060 - Windows Vista Home Premium preloaded Sale: $599.99

• Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core mobile processor T2060 with 533MHz frontside bus, 1MB L2 cache and 1.6GHz processor speed
• 1GB PC4200 DDR2 memory for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB
• Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible DVD+R DL and DVD-R DL media

[Echo Talon]

That is Vista Home Premium... Good... its good... but doesn't have the "complete file backup"... still a great deal for $600, add another 1GB of ram to it though...

[raybbr]

Actually I was looking at this at Staples.

HP Pavilion dv6226us Entertainment Notebook PC

Designed for your lifestyle with the convergence of leading-edge entertainment and performance that travels.

Price:

Reg. $899.98

$809.98

Each

Save $90.00

Before:

• $60.00 Instant Coupon
• Rebate

Final Price:

$749.98

Free 1GB USB drive w/ purchase

• Intel ® Pentium ® Dual Core processor T2060 (1.60GHz)
• 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 120GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA)
• Super Multi 8X DVDñR/RW with Double Layer Support
• 15.4" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800) Display
• 802.11b/g WLAN
• 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader
• Weight 6.14lbs
• Genuine Windows ® Vista Home Premium
• 1 year warranty

[Echo Talon]

not bad, ;) the best link i gave you also has th option to add in a free all-in-one printer... ;)

Acer also has a cheap laptop out with Vista Home Premium on it, you may want to look into that one also... newegg.com has it...

Vista Deals can be found here

[Echo Talon]

Heres a link to the Vista Home Premium Gateway Laptop + FREE All-in-One Printer Deal

[Echo Talon]

Circuit City

[Echo Talon]

The one you're lookig at does have a little bit larger screen... and a little bit larger HDD...

[Echo Talon]

Just make sure you leave yourself enough $ to get another 1GB of ram to stink into that ASAP... whichever one you choose... you can either have the store do it or neweg.com or crucial.com(they have a memory configurator on their webpage to tell you want to buy), Since the Video robs your system memery that 1GB really isn't 1GB from the get-go... so... you need another GB of ram in there...

[raybbr]

The one you're lookig at does have a little bit larger screen... and a little bit larger HDD...

Yup! Why immediate need for mor RAM? Aren't you making the author's case that Vista is not all it's cracked up to be?

[RandallFlagg]

I'm stuck with this:

At least I can finally get back on the internet, though.

[Echo Talon]

[Echo Talon]

Yup! Why immediate need for mor RAM? Aren't you making the author's case that Vista is not all it's cracked up to be?

Well, I;m currently running Vista Ultimate with 1GB of ram using onboard video robbing 128MB of system memory... IT works , fine as you can tell... I;m posting this right? My superPI scores are Sub 30seconds for 1M and sub 29Minutes for 32M but... If i wanted to do intense work.. well... I;d need more memory... I'm getting more soon. less than 1GB is fine for most "normal end user" stuff, but i'm NOT the normal end user. ;)

[Echo Talon]

If you notice my memory is currently sitting at 47% used... and i have 4 instances of Firefox opened and Avast! Antivirus with webshield running in the background... no problems..

[raybbr]

What program/plugin is that screen shot from.

[Echo Talon]

Look at this deal! up to 4Gb's of ram ;) come with Core2Duo

That screenshot is built into Vista its called "snipping tool" ;)

Start --> All Programs -->> Accessories --> snipping tool