Windows Vista Questions

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mpsnedag

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I have Windows media center edition right now, and am thinking of upgrading to Windows Vista Ultimate.

Comp Specs:
Toshiba Satellite A105-S4274
1 GB RAM
1.73 GHZ processor speed
100 Gig hard drive

1. Do you think my laptop can handle it?
2. If you have Vista...What are the Pro's and Cons???
3. What are the latest problems?
4. I have a lot of software, what are the chances some of them won't work? (Can you please explain).
5. Overall, do you think the switch is worth it?

Thank you, I appreciate your help!

Mike
 
First off why would you need vista ultimate?

Do you need encrypted file systems and the ability to connect to domain level networks? Because really that is the only features it holds over Home Premium, save yourself the money and don't buy into the marketing scheme.

also, I really don't like vista personally some people will argue with me that it is good. I will make a compromise I suppose on my stance to give you a bit more of an unbiased opinion. I could maybe deal with vista on a desktop, but vista on a laptop it sucks. I have been working on this brand new Dell laptop for my friends girl and have had numerous and numerous problems with it on wifi networks. File sharing and even getting it to accept my wpa2 passkey was annoying.

I would save your money up for a brand new laptop in a year or two and get a top of the line one when the vista bugs are fixed. I mean heck, XP is just now finally a stable OS, it took them several years to make it as solid as it is now.
 
If its loaded with XP there is no point in realy upgrading, on idle vista will use 400-700mb of ram, i personaly thought i was going to hate it the first day of using it but now i love it...lol
 
1. Do you think my laptop can handle it?
2. If you have Vista...What are the Pro's and Cons???
3. What are the latest problems?
4. I have a lot of software, what are the chances some of them won't work? (Can you please explain).
5. Overall, do you think the switch is worth it?
 
mpsnedag said:
1. Do you think my laptop can handle it?
2. If you have Vista...What are the Pro's and Cons???
3. What are the latest problems?
4. I have a lot of software, what are the chances some of them won't work? (Can you please explain).
5. Overall, do you think the switch is worth it?
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I dont think the switch is worth it, as far as pros and cons go i cant think of any particular. Theres a thread under general software you can check for compatibility as for me everything i have tried works just perfect. But 1gig is the minimum, it will run but might get sluggish at times.
 
mpsnedag said:
1. Do you think my laptop can handle it?
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Yes but you will overall get less performance running vista, it is resource hungry compared to XP
2. If you have Vista...What are the Pro's and Cons???
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The Pros is that you get the new eye candy window manager called Aero, which IMO is not that impressive compared to other things, but its nice looking over XP. The con would be that all of your old technology has a good chance of breaking and you may have crappy driver support.
3. What are the latest problems?
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I don't even know where to begin with this one. I have been using vista since its first beta via my MSDN subscription my place of work has. I now have vista business on my desktop at work and have been using it since release. It takes my desktop about 6 to 7 minutes to fully boot vista for it to be usable and responsive. My system is not that bad at work, and I tossed 2gigs of RAM in it which should be FINE for what i use it for. SMB2 breaks networking with all non windows platforms, so if you own a mac or a linux box kiss your networking compatibility good buy, also SMB2's packet traffic increased about 1300% so it could even effect your network bandwidth. Just google search the problem with networking vista and you can read all about it.
4. I have a lot of software, what are the chances some of them won't work? (Can you please explain).
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Well, MS usually does a decent job, more so than other developers on making everything as backward compatible as possible. Most modern stuff will work, anything older than several years is like a 50/50 and anything older than that is pretty much no. That is not always the case though, that is just the average pan out, individual results will always vary.
5. Overall, do you think the switch is worth it?
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No, I don't want to pay for something that took over 6 years to develop and is this crappy. Not to mention Vienna is slated to be released in 2009, so perhaps Vista is really Vienna's beta. Also a lot of technology promised in Vista was dropped but will most likely be in Vienna.
 
mpsnedag said:
1. Do you think my laptop can handle it?
2. If you have Vista...What are the Pro's and Cons???
3. What are the latest problems?
4. I have a lot of software, what are the chances some of them won't work? (Can you please explain).
5. Overall, do you think the switch is worth it?
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1. yes it can , but itll be really slow
2. Pros- faster when loading up, cool aero stuff, quicker and faster
cons- takes too much ram
3. none
4. mayb , there are drivers out there, i loaded all my programs except GTA SA
5. no - XP for laptops
Vista For desktops
 
Comp Specs:
Toshiba Satellite A105-S4274
1 GB RAM
1.73 GHZ processor speed
100 Gig hard drive

1. Do you think my laptop can handle it?

Handle it, nah, 1GB is not enough,

2. If you have Vista...What are the Pro's and Cons???
Too many problems with vista right now, wait until there's a patch or Service pack then get it, but get some other version, ultimate is too much

3. What are the latest problems?
lots of it, drivers, some programs not working etc...

4. I have a lot of software, what are the chances some of them won't work? (Can you please explain).
depends, some may work, well some may not, thats vista for your info

your spec is not that good bro, my bro has extreme hardware and vista is killing the 3gb of ram he has
 
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