Vista Worth It?

[Doofy]

Has anyone any opinions on Vista is it worth upgrading to ? just seen the ultimate oem version on oveclockers, for £135 quid or therabouts just wondered whether it was woth going for.

[Nikesh]

I think I'm going to wait at least a couple of months, maybe even until next year because my computer isn't capable of Vista Ultimate and I don't want to upgrade my computer just yet.

[Delta Whiskey]

I've been playing with the demo version for the last couple of months and I can't see any compelling reason to upgrade. Most of the really cool stuff like the new file system has been removed so I consider it to be more like XP SP3 rather than a new OS.

DW

[The Jackal]

Depends on you and whether you like vista and are comfortable with it.

Its always the case when you start getting comfortable with an OS after many years of tweaking. MicroShaft bring out a new version of windows.

For me personally I'm not wasting my time on learning the ins and outs of another new windows.

[Druchii]

Used Vista RC2 just yesterday, all i can say is, slow, buggy and kept crashing

[pooper]

There's no compelling reason to upgrade in the near future really, like Delta Whiskey said, most of the interesting new features were cut, to bring the release date forward (and various other reasons).

For gaming it's complete poop right now and the only thing really 'selling it' is the fact that it's going to have DX10 (no DX10 for XP), so if you want to play the next gen games, you'll have to switch over to Vista (although some titles are being developed for both DX9 & 10, e.g. Crysis).

I don't wanna sound like the usual Microsoft basher, but seriously, most of their new features have been blatantly nabbed from OSX, the similarities are quite funny (check Youtube)!

But anyway, i'd say for the near future..... stick to XP! (lesser of 2 evils)

Or use Linux!

[Nikesh]

Originally Posted by pooper

Most of their new features have been blatantly nabbed from OSX

I thought most of the features in all the different versions of Windows was taken from Apple...

[pooper]

Well to a certain extent yeah, but in Vista they just seem to be even more obvious, because they're visually very similar

This Youtube vid cracks me up everytime

[keithwalton]

Yes its worth it, I've been using it through out the beta and rc stages, and if you think rc2 is buggy and slow lol its about 15x quicker than beta1 and far less buggy! (though rc1 was better than rc2) did you use 32 or 64bit version ? as 32 is the way to go still.
It runs better on all my systems, the high end now really flies and a machine under vista min spec is better in vista than xp!

[Nikesh]

Originally Posted by pooper

This Youtube vid cracks me up everytime

LOLLLLLL That's funny!! Thanks for the link mate!

[Doofy]

rotfl cheers for that really cheered me up

Originally Posted by pooper

Well to a certain extent yeah, but in Vista they just seem to be even more obvious, because they're visually very similar

This Youtube vid cracks me up everytime

who cares? I will still be using windows cuz software writers write software for it in abundance and the hardware isnt unreasonably expensive . I dont care if bits look the same or M$ robbed ideas off apple cuz I like using a pc.

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

who cares? I will still be using windows cuz software writers write software for it in abundance and the hardware isnt unreasonably expensive . I dont care if bits look the same or M$ robbed ideas off apple cuz I like using a pc.

here here

mad thing is now mac are using intel cpus their uses are using a pc now too

[Alanmelon]

Originally Posted by pooper

Well to a certain extent yeah, but in Vista they just seem to be even more obvious, because they're visually very similar

This Youtube vid cracks me up everytime

Hmmm, and linked from that is the following;

The facts