Is Vista Worth?

[afroxav]

Let me hear what you have to say about vista, and if it's worth to upgrade if we have a Windows Vista Capable computer.

I think that we should wait 'till the SP1 which, I hear, is in closed beta-testing.

[Smith6612]

Vista SP1 I believe is already out. Otherwise, it's going to take the OEMs about a month or so unless you upgrade Vista onto your current computer or build your own machine and get a DVD with SP1 pre-installed. Otherwise, Vista is worth it, as it's done so many things for me that I would've had to go open source hunting for (which can take days of hunting and gigabytes of downloading, which isn't a problem). Just as long as you have a decent processor, a good amount of RAM and for Aero, a video card that tankes Pixel Shading, then you're good to go.

If you want to see if your current system is Vista compatible, there is an Upgrade Assistant available for download at the Microsoft Website.

[Zangetsu]

vista is worth it if you have a quad core, 4-8gigs of ram, and a high end video card but if you have a computer thats designed for xp then its not worth it trust me i've tried

[Spartan Erik]

All because a computer says it's Vista Capable doesn't mean it will run well. Some Vista computers are more capable than others (this is why Microsoft is currently being sued).

Vista is a terrible OS. Stick with XP, you won't regret it.

PS the Vista service pack is already out I believe, but XP should be getting its third service pack sometime this or next week

[Starshine]

vista is worth it if you have a quad core, 4-8gigs of ram, and a high end video card but if you have a computer thats designed for xp then its not worth it trust me i've tried

I don't have a quad-core or 4-8 gigs of ram and run Vista just fine. Its not sluggish or slow, hasn't had errors. I was skeptical about getting it when I got a new computer, but since I did - things have been good.

[swirly]

I saw an offer where you could get Vista for free if you gave up your privacy to microsoft for like 3 months.

[Smith6612]

I can boot Vista completely here in about 30 seconds and be viewing my desktop with all of my apps open by themselves within 45 seconds. How long does it take you to get Vista even started?

Also, my Vista score is a perfect 5.9/5.9 . This is my gaming machine btw. Also, What does the poster below my last post mean about Microsoft getting sued over systems less capable for Vista? Is there a news article around there I can see?

As for getting Vista for free, there is a Windows Live Club, that if you have the time to play some puzzle games, can get a hold of a free copy of Vista.

[HomerJ]

I have my XP Pro so tweaked out performance wise, that it only takes ~200mb of my RAM, leaving me with a extremely high RAM availability percentage.

200MB!?!? I always thought XP was nice and lightweight. For comparison, here is the software on my desktop:

Gentoo linux (kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r10)
X11 (a graphical windowing environment)
Xfce 4.4 (a desktop environment)
Compiz (a 3D window manager, all sorts of fancy effects like Vista's Aero)
A few services: vmware-server, XDM (for remote X11 logins), others

All of this uses 166MB of RAM. If I get rid of Compiz and replace it with xfwm4 (Xfce's window manager) the RAM usage drops to 152MB.

On my very old laptop:
Arch Linux (A 2.6.22 kernel, I think)
X11
fluxbox (a lightweight Window manager)

All of this uses only 19MB of RAM.

Of course, XP's 200MB is nothing compared to Vista. My friend's computer boots up with Vista already taking up 500MB of RAM. It was also pre-installed and occupying 20GB of hard disk space.

Overall, Vista totally sucks. It's a resource-hogging waste of money. I can have way more eye candy on linux wasting far less resources without having to spend a bunch of money on Windows Vista.

[tscout3]

I dont have vista yet but i can tell you it is worth it because alot of games are starting to use directx 10 which is only compatible with Vista OS's.