Since installing Vista 2 weeks ago, my view on Vista have changed drastically. It is less of a resource hogging, flashy overloaded OS packed with useless features and overdone security, and more of a pleasent interface designed to utilize as many resources as possible in order to provide the best experience. All the while ensuring that all resources are still available when needed.
After installing it initially, the OS failed to run smoothly at all. It took many adjustments:
Updating Motherboard Bios (the update was actually a pre-vista release)
Installing Vista service pack 1& other updates
Disabling search index
disabling windows defender
I wont go into detail about those since there are so many articles on the net which already cover the topic. Of course, there is the debated topic of the security messages which popup pretty much whenever you do anything. Ya, I disabled that too. Not that it slows me down, but that I’m literate enough to know what I am doing in the system, and what goes on when I do things like download and run files. Though I won’t argue that it is too much protection for the average user. The average user /is/ pretty dumb afterall.
So this is just my update. I’m running vista and it’s working extremely well. I have only had some issues with iTunes and certain dvd burning software like infrarecorder, which supposedly is Vista ready…. totally free burner works well for those who are wondering.
In conclusion Vista is a great OS. If you’re looking for a new computer now, I wouldn’t be afraid of getting the OS. If you’re currently running XP I wouldn’t reccomend upgrading unless you have a reason to, or just want the latest OS. However you must make sure you have some fast RAM, and Fast hard drive at the least. Since My harddrive is IDE not SATA 150 or 300, it runs a bit slower. This is the reason I had to disable search index and defender. Also for the full Aero effect, I would suggest a dedicated video card. Right now I’m running a 7800 on AGP and everything seems great! It doesn’t take something as powerful as a 7800 however. Just so long as it’s a dedicated video card with 64 meg of ram or more and hopefully higher than a geforce 4700.
All in all Vista rocks. The people who downplay the OS as being a disaster probably have not tried it for themselves on a machine which it is designed to run on. There is also a great number of people out there who generally will say and do anything just to get traffic. The net is a nasty place and most of what is popular is usually rubbish.
