I don't see the problem
I was loath to buy Vista for ages, especially after reading all the posts on the Web about how bloated and rubbish it is.
Around Xmas I was looking for a laptop, and ended up buying a Dell Inspiron for about £850, and ordered it with Vista Ultimate installed.
The laptop was quite beefy, it came standard with a Windows Experience rating of 4.7.
I began installing my apps and over the last couple of months have been using the machine in earnest on my home network.
I'm sorry I just don't understand what all the moaning is about, the machine runs perfectly well, is easy to use, and needs very little tinkering with the OS to do anything, it just works, and well at that.
I fired up my old XP machine the other week to install SP3 and it soon dawned on me after a few hours of using it, that it had aged. I couldn't exactly put my finger on why, but it just felt older and clunkier.
In my experience Vista is not that bad, in fact, its a pretty good OS.
A few laptops at work are now running Vista Business, and again they work perfectly well. Ok, they don't have all the flashy gizmo's of Home Edition or Ultimate, but they perform perfectly well as Business Laptops, and no-one in IT has complained about them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
