vista

thebaz

was looking into getting a new computer and thinking of a Dell laptop, with Vista home edition, with 1 GB of RAm -- i was told to stay well clear of vista , and wait until a later version comes out --
the 2 problems i was told about is it eats memory , and many XP / win 2k apps don't run on XP --
is vista that bad, also when will next vista version be out ?

cheers.

SuperSean11

Vistas only bad when its put on a pc that runs xp

lodgepole

thebaz wrote:

was looking into getting a new computer and thinking of a Dell laptop, with Vista home edition, with 1 GB of RAm -- i was told to stay well clear of vista , and wait until a later version comes out --
the 2 problems i was told about is it eats memory , and many XP / win 2k apps don't run on XP --
is vista that bad, also when will next vista version be out ?

cheers.

Vista will work fine on a modern laptop. It uses the memory available to it, which should be 1GB at a minimum. Don't worry about software, i've had no problems moving from XP, and was able to find replacements that did for any smaller applications that didn't work correctly.

I think the first major update for Vista will be towards the end of the year. I see no reason to wait until then to upgrade.

Tivoli

its fine, very dull and boring, but its not xp sp0, and as i keep stressing... were all behind NAT roupters now so there will be no new blaster virsus ect

dazftw

Vista home edition doesnt have all the fancy bits like areo(spelling?) Its basically got the theme.. Thats all the "looks" new.

rabbitinlights

Ive found Vista to be brilliant, I just got a new laptop and it runs brilliantly, I did bump up the ram to 2GBs though.

Id say go for it.

S.

Stephen P

I like Vista, I got the Home Premium version. Have 1GB of RAM but I'm going to get another 2GB soon just to speed things up a little. The GUI is very nice and I like the sidebar. Don't really see the point of the aero feature, its good but not all that useful. Caused me a few problems installing it but with the help of 8T8 I got that fixed.

thebaz

for 570 Dell are doing a notebook, inspiron series, 1 GB of RAM, dual pentium processor, lowish HD of 60 GB , with vista Home Edition , all for 570 euros inclusive .
I have a 3 year old inspiron with xp , 250 ram , which i have found good but am finding a bit slow now, i was going to up the ram , but then thought for 570 i can get a new machine -- but a few freinds warned me of vista , saying it hogs memory , and that many of my current windows apps won't run.
Most here seam happy eneogh !