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

Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote:

> 2. Increased system requirements and slower performance compared to previous
> operating systems XP/2000/98/Linux/BSD and so forth.

> 2. What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away, so the saying goes.... Vista
> requires a faster processor and more RAM than previous versions
> of Windows.
> I'm really not sure why anyone is surprised by this, given that something
> like six years have elapsed between XP and Vista being
> released. I remember
> reading the same type of complaints about Windows XP, 2000 and
> 95 when they
> came out, too. This is not really anything that
> Microsoft-specific, either.
> I suspect if one were to compared the system requirements for a
> six year old
> application versus its current version the results would be the same.
>
> When it does come time for me to upgrade to a new ThinkPad, I shall pay
> close attention to the hardware selection to ensure it works well with
> Vista before I make my investment.
>

The defense you take for #2 is only really valid if the new version is
an 'upgrade' (in terms of added features). From all I've been able to
find, but base Vista OS itself doesn't offer me anything notable that I
care to use. If that's the case, then I'd be using Vista in the same
manner as XP and getting the same benefits out of using it, but at an
added cost in terms of hardware requirements. Nothing gained for my new
'investment'. In this regard, there is no justification for
significantly increased hardware requirements. You're right that this
same situation applies to a lot of software/application upgrades as
well, but I'm no more enthusiastic about them either.

In addition to offering new features with an OS or application upgrade,
the vendor also has the opportunity (some would say responsibility) to
do performance engineering on their product during that new version
coding cycle. There may well be opportunities to tune things so that we
end up with more features AND a faster experience, not the other way
around. MS is not incented to do that though, because they have
basically a captive audience and they are doing their hardware buddies a
favor by using more resources. Until they stop being the de-facto OS
installed on every PC this cycle will not end.

By the way, I like Windows... I'm not an anti-Windows person. I just
don't like feeding MS more $$ for nothing.

Rob

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Received on Mon Nov 19 07:35:31 2007