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A better choice would have been to stay with XP. Many areas in the system were restricted as I discovered when I tried to see what was using so much drive space. A bitter, eye-opening experience. Vista reqires more than 15 gig of harddrive space for the basic load.
So, my hardware is top notch -- brand new HP quad core Phenom 2.4 GHz processors with 8GB of RAM. My patience has run out.
I have brand new, top-of-the-line 64-bit hardware and a crazy amount of RAM; and this machine feels slow. I'm reverting back to Windows XP, or at least installing a dual boot configuration, because this machine is just silly slow.
I have been using Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version patiently for several months now. If I leave Internet Explorer open, it has a memory leak that gets progressively worse and completely overtakes the system within a few hours.
I'm amazed at how inferior of a product this is. The "performance indicator" says my Windows Vista experience is a 5.6 out of a possible 5.9 -- this is supposed to be some indication of how fast my hardware is.
As soon as I boot, I notice the OS is using 1.5GB of RAM, before I touch anything.
Otherwise I have no problem, would buy from this seller again. Unfortunately was not able to load on my pc because to many upgrades needed to be made for everything to work. Seller shipped in a reasonable length of time. Packaging was as advertised, sealed as stated and was new Old Version.
I get the thing home and my printer does not work (a recent HP laserjet) and my digital camera is also NOT SUPPORTED. Unless you want to buy a whole knew bunch of peripherials don't buy Windows Vista. WINDOWS VISTA SUCKS. If you are going to have anything to do with Windows Vista you should make sure that any devices you own (or may possibly will own) are supported.not likely. My wife recently needed to buy a new computer so we bought a new Dell with Windows Vista. The salesman said that Vista was the way to go.
I need not go into how nice the interface looks for i am sure alot of persons have done that for me. I have even read reviews that show that with SP1 its performance is now comparable to the hugely successfull predecessor XP with SP2.I was very disappointed with the fact that i could not use certain programmes with it.noteably ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS 9.0. I got this with my dell. With Service Pack 1 and my regular updates i have not noticed any problems stability-wise. All other compatable issues i had were eventually solved by driver updates from the device or software manufacturers.I love it. I love it. I have read alot of reviews about how it is a bloated programme and how so many others are better but i honestly love this OS.
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