More On Vista
Well it’s been a few days now, and to be honest I actually like Vista more than I did initially. Of course I am easily swayed by the slick UI and my computer is pretty good (although not as good as some people’s backup servers apparently)…
I haven’t yet tried to fix the printer driver problem yet, and I still do get prompted to put in my password a lot (I left the UAC on, because I know I am stupid). I haven’t noticed any performance decreases, but nothing really feels any faster either. However, Vista did do a better job of recognizing my hardware than XP did. This is pretty odd, and when Bunky first got her computer with Vista (which barely gets used…), Vista Vanilla had so many bugs and driver incompatibilities that it was intolerable. However, with SP1, it seems like most of the bugs are of slight-annoyance level.
I like the various system utilities that come with Vista as well. There are lot of cool things that weren’t in XP, although I wouldn’t classify any of them as must-haves. I read all the hate online and I understood how bad it was to be an early-adopter, but my experience with Vista so far has been positive. I would recommend Vista to anyone who has good hardware and can get it for cheap. I wouldn’t have paid full price for it, but I got mine “free” from the MBA program.
The step from XP to Vista is not that dissimilar to the step from BF2 to BF2142. It doesn’t seem like much of an improvement at first, but once more of the bugs get fixed, Vista should shine. I believe it has leveled up to “Usable” now with SP1.
