Re: [Thinkpad] Vista naysayers: what don't you like?

I don't have Vista and haven't used it, so I may be making uneducated
decisions. However, here is my take on it:

  - As mentioned above, I haven't even seen it yet in person. I work
with computers all day long in an IT department. I have a desktop and
multiple laptops at home. I support my family and friends' PCs. The
product has been out for how long now? Almost a year? That right there
tells me something.

  - The hardware requirements for Vista seems substantially higher than
for XP. What do we get in return for throwing more hardware at it? A
slightly improved UI for some features? Certainly when we're talking
about modern PCs, just fluffing up the UI should not require more hardware.

  - On the same track as the last one... What does Vista offer that I
don't get with XP? Where are the features that I can't do without?
Haven't heard of anything yet.

Those are my main reasons for passing on Vista. Most of the hardware I
use is several years old, with 1GB or less of RAM. XP works just fine
on these systems, but Vista would probably be slow with that little
memory.

What would I do if I was buying a new system? That's a tough question.
  I'd probably want a Vista license, not to use immediately, but to have
in case MS improves it enough in the next year or so to make it
desirable. I would never pay for a boxed OS, so I'd only buy it with a
system. However, since I'd rather run XP right now, that leaves me in a
pickle. I suppose I'd try to take the XP license off the system I was
replacing and use it on the new system, though that might be difficult
or 'not approved by MS'.

Rob

Scott Matthews wrote:

> I'm still open to liking Vista, but also curious to know what you don't
> like.
>
> Apart from some device incompatibility --ie, some printers, etc. not having
> Vista-friendly drivers -- what else don't you like?
>

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Received on Fri Nov 16 14:37:23 2007