Windows Vista...

[lillyorchid]

I'm thinking of upgrading my computer from XP to Vista (Home Premium). Who here has it? Tell me what you like, don't like, etc! I want to know. I don't really know anyone who has it, so I can't get feedback from my real life friends or go over someone house to check it out..

[Spaniard]

I would not get vista if microsoft paid me. I personally use Windows XP Service Pack 2. My girls new laptop has vista and she has compatability problems with a lot of stuff. Not to mention her browser randomly vibrates like an earthquake is going on. I would at least wait a little before upgrading until they can work out the kinks in the software.

[darkangel]

What I like -- it looks nice, it works wonderfully
What I don't like -- It wouldn't let me use SLI for the first few months so I ended up selling my video cards and it was incompatible with a good bit of software I had.. But I think this has changed recently.. And remember going from NT to 95? That's what it's like going from XP or older to Vista, you have to learn things over again. It was quite frustrating for me at first and I considered reverting to XP, but now I'm more comfortable with it.

[Laooda]

I have it and love it!

But this computer came with it.... I think there is a list of what is compatible and what's not. My tablet loaded right up, and that's all I was really worried about!

[duffmanrc]

i have heard goods and bads, mostly bads. A good friend of mine recently upgraded and he noticed stability issues and an extreme drop in his computer speed overall, from opening programs to download and upload speeds.

Personally i am waiting for a while, the main reason behind me even wanting to upgrade is because of DirectX 10. The new games comming out will all be directX 10 and there wont be a directX 10 for XP

[lillyorchid]

I have heard that even though it says it only needs 512MB's of RAM that you will need atleast 1G of RAM for it to run smooth and not lag or freeze up. True? My computer is pretty new and has all the requirements for it... but I do not have 1G of RAM so I'm not wondering about that.

[darkangel]

I would definetly run it with 1GB. Memory is dirt cheap right now so it shouldn't cost you much to upgrade.

[Nate]

yeh u do need a lot of ram because it's graphic intensive. It's a memory hog.

I'm still running XP and will be for a little while longer. I was the same way when XP came out, and now it's the most stable. Vista will be stable on of these days

[duffmanrc]

preferably, you should have 2gb of ram. it will greatly improve your performance and experience with vista

[sw204me]

Coming from a cable/computer technician, I highly recommend you DO NOT GET VISTA. Micro$haft couldn't pay me enough money to put that blasted program on my computer. For the sake of your computer PLEASE keep XP on your machine and avoid Vista at all cost. Only when games are upgraded and are ALL using DirectX X will I get Vista. Until then, which is 2-3 years away, I will stay as far as possible from Vista.

Vista itself needs 1Gig of ram to run. What kind of OS needs a gig of ram?! That is a complete waste of memory, especially when most people don't even have 2 gig, and if your like me and have a built machine, i have 2 gig of really expensive gaming ram, my games are incredable, and Vista wants me to give up a full gig of that to the OS, they are out of their mind!