Vista Woes
Sam Gentile has had it with Vista for the moment - but two of his complaints caught my eye:
- File copies and moves are broken even to the internal hard drives taking minutes
- File copies to a computer RIGHT NEXT to it over the network never complete and time out Publish
That reminded me of something Dvorak has been saying about Vista for awhile now - that Vista really needs one of the new hybrid drives (they have embedded flash drives to allow onboard cache operations). Now, I haven't so much as looked at Vista, so I don't really know - but it makes me wonder whether Microsoft might have jumped ahead of the required technology infrastructure by a year or two. The fact that Dell is back to offering XP as an option doesn't bode well, either.
Comments
Dell made a smart move...
[gregarican] April 23, 2007 12:22:33.866
I had to order a new Dell notebook PC for one of my company's directors. Unfortunately XP wasn't an option then. I made the mistake of ordering the PC with the basic recommended specs. Only 512 MB of RAM. Vista was so sluggish that it was barely usable doing even basic things like bringing up the Control Panel applet. If Vista required more than 512 MB of RAM then the Dell online ordering process should've flagged the choice as being incompatible.
Long story short I wiped Vista and installed a licensed copy of XP Pro SP2. Runs reliably and doesn't dog out. Overall I thought Vista to be a bloated take-off on Mac OS X. Even down to the default wallpaper :-/ Glad Dell changed their minds!!!