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Originally Posted by Philipp_Thomsen
Too soon to be using vista for anything. Too much incompatibility. I'll start using it by the end of the year, maybe more, maybe less. Whats wrong with XP?
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I would've agreed a few months ago...
It's actually pretty good now that SP1 is out. My games run well under Vista. Seems to manage my RAM better too. I notice my system monitor seldomly displays my RAM usage over 70%, frequently it would max out under my old XP setup (granted, probably my kids messing around with malware).
I wanted to install a 64-bit OS and couldn't bring myself to purchase XP64 when I know it's poised to be surpassed by Vista. My hardware drivers all seem to be up to date, network gadgets, wireless printer, BIOS, GPU, X15 keyboard... shoot even my Saitek X52 FCS is running with Vista-64 drivers. Everything is working! So far, the only thing I have not been able to rectify is the lack of AA in Silent Hunter 3 using the new 169.25 nvidia driver. Everything else runs well (actually a little better) under Vista. I'm a bit of convert now, the layout is much better in my opinion. I just like it...
The Ultimate version of Vista has a nice feature for backing up my system. I can shoot images of my RAID0 array drives to a third backup drive and just click a button to reimage my RAID drives if things get dicey. For me, that alone has been worth it.
Previously, I've come home to the PC not working cuz one of my 3 kids has tried (yet again) to install something or play some internet game on it and the thing won't boot right, or has some new quirk (Hey dad, check out these cool new animated mouse pointers!
). I think the kids may have played a part in crashing my last HD. Now that I have the re-imager and a bunch of drives (1 crashes and I go buy 4 to replace it
) I've already made use of that feature at least a half-dozen times in the last couple months to just purge the system.