- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Minjita
Over priced and bloatware imo. Ive been using it at work for about 2 months, and at home for nearly a week.
Its very nice, its very pretty, but its so bloated its a joke.
On a fresh boot, with nothing running (or have been running), it uses 33% of 2 gig of memory. Thats a joke, it really is poor.
It doesnt offer much over XP at all, apart from prettyness, and possibly stability and security (but its too soon to say anything about those 2 yet).
Imo it was released far too soon. Theres a huge problem with drivers, and many many programs dont work properly (or at all) with it. This includes some microsoft programs, which for me, means they rushed it.
The simple fact is, I cant use it as well as XP, due to driver issues, and program incompatibility. It cant be rolled out at work, and at home I have to keep my XP installation because theres so much stuff Vista cant do!
If I had paid for it, Id be fuming. As it is, I get it from work, as I also develop at home.Eh, so Vista had a rough start. That doesn't mean this thing can't become a jewel.