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Originally posted by rcecale
Bob,
Have to agree with you about Vista...so far.
Picked up a new HP laptop for my wife with Vista. So far the thing has been a royal PITA. Gonna let her work with it for a wjile...until she gets tired of having to figure stuff out all over again, and will then "upgrade" it to XP Pro. :-)
Randy
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not sure why all the handwringing over Vista. PITA? How so? Of four PCs in the house I now have 2 on Vista 32bit, one on Vista 64bit and one left on XP Pro. I really, really prefer Vista to XP by a landslide, I can see no reason whatsoever to prefer XP other than it's the "old pair of shoes". XP certainly feels like a stinky old pair of sneakers after using vista for a while.
Vista is quicker to boot and has a number of operating efficiencies (given adequate RAM) over XP and has been relatively (compared to XP) trouble free since it's broad release. I simply like the user interface (eg aero) and appearance better than XP. 64 bit Vista will certainly be a charm when software (games) catches up - big bump in OS RAM recognition.
The only negative about Vista I've found is non-compatibility with my old Epson scanner (I blame Epson for not offering a driver). Also, I'm disappointed in OEM makers like ASUS and nVidia for being unreasonably slow out of the gate with drivers and properly configured hardware for Vista - particularly 64bit. Even MS is slow in properly supporting the 64 bit version though.