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Wednesday - January 31, 2007
Vista first impressions
So I went out and bought Vista Ultimate yesterday. The install went fairly smooth, I did have to change some keyboard settings in my BIOS to get my USB keyboard to work during the beginning of the setup. Since I went from 32-bit XP to 64-bit Vista, I had to do a 'clean install', which creates a totally new Windows folder and does not migrate your settings/docs automatically.
The good:
- The UI is great, I'd say it's even better than OSX
- Driver support is very expansive, the default install recognized every device (XP doesn't come close)
- Overall performance seems in line XP
The bad:
- Windows Live OneCare does not work with 64-bit Vista
- Currently the most unstable OS I've ever used. I've had 6 BSODs in less than 24 hours.
I'm not giving up on it, I have a suspicion that the crashes are due to the video drivers which are dated Jan 6th. Nvidia has some beta drivers released yesterday that I'll give a try. I'll also probably update the BIOS, even though the flash utility doesn't run under 64-bit Vista either. I'll have to use a boot disk. Anyway, I took a screenshot of Flip-3D which is Vista's new alt-tab replacement. It works really well, and I prefer it to Apple equivalent.
Posted by jcraven at January 31, 2007 10:52 AM
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knowing what you've gone through now - would you have still bought it or waited a while?
Posted by: dave at January 31, 2007 10:06 PM