Vista - is it really worth it? - Page 3

Mark · 18-06-2007, 16:44

I must admit I balked at the sound support in Vista. I want my screenful of volume controls goddamnit, not the pesky two that Vista seems to insist on.

Networking is a bit of an interesting one as it'll be going into a AD environment and there's a decided lack of support for Vista networking among our IT bods. Bleeding edge or what?

Anyway, it sounds like I should give it a try. I'll throw my last-decade software at it and see if it copes. If it does, I'll give it the benefit of a few weeks.

LeperousDust · 18-06-2007, 18:13

I love Vista, but as Daz says, i love XP too, i wouldn't move to or from either. Vista just came with this laptop, and its staying because i'm too lazy to do anything else with it...

One thing that still gets on my tits is its poor standby support. Loads of weird things happen when my laptop goes into standby or wakes up. Wireless is flaky (limted connection rubbish) after standby. I have to hardware disable wireless and re-enable it to solve that. Bluetooth is the same again, and a few driver quirks between the vista compatible Wireless entertainment desktop (by microsoft for christs sake!) and some of the media buttons on my laptop (it remapped them all, good job i barely use them).

Thats all i can think of so far, but apart from that its bloody good, it just needs ironing out. I like the fact i don't have to pay to upgrade in the future since i've already got it now, but i feel if i could have held out another 6 months/year it would havea been easier for me...

Admiral Huddy · 19-06-2007, 09:36

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Originally Posted by Daz

Integrated search, some nice user experience bits (managing various media types is great in vista, very feature full and intuitive), and greatly re-worked sound and networking components in the kernel.

It's a strange one really because from an admins point of view, there's no reason to move to it, but if you're there and not having issues, no reason to move away either. If anything you're more secure on Vista because of it's small market share compared to XP and new kernel revision.

You sounded just like Bill Gates there

Will · 19-06-2007, 09:46

It's not worth it enough for me to move over from X64 at the moment. Sure it looks nice, and works pretty well, but so does my XP installation - if it ain't broke and all that...

18-06-2007, 18:13	#22
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	I love Vista, but as Daz says, i love XP too, i wouldn't move to or from either. Vista just came with this laptop, and its staying because i'm too lazy to do anything else with it... One thing that still gets on my tits is its poor standby support. Loads of weird things happen when my laptop goes into standby or wakes up. Wireless is flaky (limted connection rubbish) after standby. I have to hardware disable wireless and re-enable it to solve that. Bluetooth is the same again, and a few driver quirks between the vista compatible Wireless entertainment desktop (by microsoft for christs sake!) and some of the media buttons on my laptop (it remapped them all, good job i barely use them). Thats all i can think of so far, but apart from that its bloody good, it just needs ironing out. I like the fact i don't have to pay to upgrade in the future since i've already got it now, but i feel if i could have held out another 6 months/year it would havea been easier for me... __________________

19-06-2007, 09:46	#24
Will BBx woz 'ere :P Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 2,147,487,208	It's not worth it enough for me to move over from X64 at the moment. Sure it looks nice, and works pretty well, but so does my XP installation - if it ain't broke and all that... __________________ *No No!*

18-06-2007, 16:44	#21
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	I must admit I balked at the sound support in Vista. I want my screenful of volume controls goddamnit, not the pesky two that Vista seems to insist on. Networking is a bit of an interesting one as it'll be going into a AD environment and there's a decided lack of support for Vista networking among our IT bods. Bleeding edge or what? Anyway, it sounds like I should give it a try. I'll throw my last-decade software at it and see if it copes. If it does, I'll give it the benefit of a few weeks.