The Good & The Bad of Windows Vista

Published on November 30, 2006 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Today marks the official launch of Windows Vista as a purchasable product. Microsoft began selling copies to business customers today so we'll soon be seeing some of the first Vista installs "in the wild" so to speak. Now, a lot of people are going "So what?" over this latest iteration of the world's most dominant operating system, so the good folks over at silicon.com decided to write their top five reasons to love (and hate) Windows Vista.

Some of the "love" points:

Integrated search & Virtual Folders
Gadgets (umm... hello? DesktopX anyone?)
Borrowing external storage to boost RAM

And some of the more amusing "hate" points:

User Account Protection... so annoying and in-your-face most users will likely disable it
Aero Glass will Devour Your Battery
Time to get a new PC, your old one won't be good enough.

It's a nice, short analysis piece for anyone who is on the fence and wants to hear about a few of the pros and cons of Vista.

Comments

seldomseen

on Nov 30, 2006

LOL! Thanks, Zoomba! Short, succint, and to the point!

wilson1992

on Dec 01, 2006

Aero Glass will Devour Your Battery

So on laptops, batteries will burst into flames ?

starkers

on Dec 01, 2006

# Time to get a new PC, your old one won't be good enough.

Mine's Vista ready with a 4.4 rating...but Uncle Bill is most welcome to purchase me another with a 5.5 richter scale rating, the toppest end GPU card and one of those new fangled quad core CPU's running around 3.5 GHZ, with 4 gigs of DDR2 800 RAM and a SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro connected to a 7-1 speaker system that'd raise the neighbours rooves within a 500 metre radius as well ....oh, and a nice new 26" flatscreen monitor in widesreen that'll fit perfectly into my desktop's pigeon hole.

Oi, everyone's entitled to dream.

Orion

on Dec 01, 2006

Time to get a new PC, your old one won't be good enough.

Misleading. As I've said before on a P4-2.4 512MB class system (I have hundreds of these at work) Vista runs as fast, if not faster on this class box. I did read the article, and yes, it is more specific with something like "not the full Vista Aero experience". There's a huge difference between the two statements.

My "old" home pc (a little over a year, custom self-built) scores 5.9 vista performance index .

kleash

on Dec 01, 2006

hmm...theres the good and the bad, but wheres the ugly?

anyways..i won't be getting vista..way too expensive, xp is good enuf

whiterabbit007

on Dec 01, 2006

Has anyone done laptop battery testing using windowblinds themes? I mean heck, if running WB vista theme instead of the native aero one means the laptop will last an extra hour or so, it's definitely worth it.

zxtt

on Dec 01, 2006

I think WB is going to use the same 3D compositing system that Aero uses, so I'd expect similar power usage.

On a side note, my over 2 1/2 years old P4 3.2GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon X800 Pro runs Vista just fine. The X800 and the installation hard drive was added to the system after it was built, mind you.

bmetelsky

on Dec 02, 2006

I thought the lower the score the better?

starkers

on Dec 04, 2006

Misleading. As I've said before on a P4-2.4 512MB class system (I have hundreds of these at work) Vista runs as fast, if not faster on this class box.

My wife runs Aero enabled Vista on a Celeron 2.66Ghz, 1.5gig DDR400 Ram, an ATI RadeOn 9850 512mb GPU card and SoundMax onboard audio.....hers is far from a top-end machine yet it runs Vista (score 3.6) quite well, no faster or slower than XP Pro.

Thing is, there's far too much propganda regarding Vista's hardware requirements out there, and if people are gullible enough to swallow it without first running MS' Vista uprgadability tool, then hardware manufacturers are gonna be gleefully be rubbing their hands all the way to the bank.

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