Vista............ Unless you have to, don't bother.

I've been lucky and had no real problems with the install and the running of Vista. Nero has to be the very latest version or it keeps giving fault boxes. TV cards are a bit of a problem but seem to be getting sorted. It eats memory, 2 gig of Ram and it uses 30 percent doing nothing. McAfee don't work at all yet.

Its very pretty, very tactile makes you want to use the bits and bells that come with it (Including a kick ass Texas Holdem Game), If your a power user then the boxes that keep popping up to check if you REALLY want to do what you have asked the computer are a pain but can be turned off, if you know nowt about computers these are a bonus as they try to stop you making mistakes before you go and push enter.

Microsoft newsgroups show hundreds of enquiries from people who can't get it to work at all, seems the upgrade version isn't doing that well at upgrading, and even a virgin install is causing problems for some.

And it seems "Vista Ready" is one of those promises a bit like the cheque is in the post and i Will take it out,,,, LOL.

If you don't need it don't bother with it,,,,,,,,, cos its a lot of brass to pay when you can;t get it to run right and there;s no money back once the seals broken.

When it all settles and the drivers etc get worked out then it will be an improvement over XP for most users.

Thought you'd like to know like,.

 

I've downloaded the Vista Transformation pack'' Must admit that looks nice.... (Y)

 

that transformation pack

does it just change the look of everything, but programs and stuff still run the same?

my technical knowledge is obvious ff

 

Looking at a new Dell PC and they include Vista, so is it ok if already installed?

 

Normally it is,,,,,,,,, i've been keeping an eye on the Vista groups and there;s not much coming back about those purchased with the operating system already set up

 

RE: that transformation pack

....(does it just change the look of everything, but programs and stuff still run the same?)....

....Aye....

 

Cheers

System I'm looking at has 2Gb RAM anyway.