- Sold Individually
- Features Windows Aero, an efficient and visually stunning interface that makes it easier to accomplish multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all of your open applications, and documents
- By integrating search throughout the operating system, helps you quickly find and organize large collections of documents, pictures, movies, videos, and music
- Includes Windows Tablet and Touch Technology that enables you to interact with your Tablet PC-compatible computer with a digital pen or your fingertip instead of having to use a keyboard
- Includes all of the Windows Media Center capabilities for turning your PC into an all-in-one home entertainment center; enjoy music, photos, and DVD movies
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Regrettably, I’m unable to review this product because the processor Intel(Q9450), which I ordered over a month ago from Amazon, has as yet not arrived. I need it to complete building my PC. Without it, I can’t load Vista. Once I get the processor, I’ll be able to review it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Windows vista has been discredited by many people and companies! I bought a toshiba satelite laptop preinstalled with vista and these specs:
3GB of ram
250GB hard drive
1.9Ghz
This is more than Vista needs, but still, it runs fast and true for me on my computer. For those people out there who have tried to install vista on computers with less than 2GB of ram and an old single core processor, Why? The requirements are clearly stated as 2Gb of ram all over the internet in various websites.
The home version of vista is easy and even fun to use! I highly recommend not buying and installing this on a non vista pre-installed computer! It works well with almost only computerrs that have it pre-installed. Sure I’ve crashed vista,but it wasn’t vista’s fault! I was running my computer with only the windows security and I was vulnerable to all kinds of threats.
With the new aero theme windows are transparent, and just way better looking. By far improved theme over Xp.
I think vista is a fine operating system and people should calm down, though I am sure windows 7 will be even better than vista. Being a beta tester I prefer windows 7 to xp & vista.
Rating: 5 / 5
Vista reminds me of how I felt when upgrading from Windows 95 to XP; bascially, “Why did I wait so long?” Well I suppose if you are still clinging to XP, then you might as well wait for Windows 7 to roll out… but don’t kid yourself: for the first year (or longer) after W7 is out, there will be all kinds of complaints from XP users who skipped Vista and are having trouble adapting to W7. I’ll admit that I was reluctant to buy into Vista because of the thrashing it got from critics… not to mention an old pc guru I know who verified for me a couple years ago that Vista was a resource hog… but these days a multi-core pc with at *minimum* 2 GB of RAM will be the standard anyway, so this “hog” issue is in reality a non-issue unless you are going to work with a fossil pc in 2010. However, I do still see one good use for XP after 2010: on the netbooks that have become popular around the globe.
I waited until Service Pack 1 came out before I purchased a new system with Vista, which may help explain why I have enjoyed Vista from Day 1 of using it. Any sane consumer will wait until the SP1 version for ANY version of Windows comes out — and if you rightly do this for W7, it means you will be stuck with XP for even longer, while meantime the pc world around you rapidly becomes a 64-bit environment and XP starts to look like a dinosaur (64-bit XP is NOT the answer to your future 64-bit problems).
I am a pc multi-tasker (30+ hrs/wk) and a gamer (10+ hrs/wk), plus need to be on it for my job (20+ hrs/wk). Vista is not cut out for some of the more ancient games, but my problems running those had more to do with the 64-bit nature of my OS than the fact that it isn’t XP. With so many games coming out every year, you really have to be quite nostalgic to insist on running all the oldies that came out over half a decade ago (although I do still play Morrowind on Vista, and it runs the 50+ mods just fine). Basically 90% of my old software runs on Vista; the remaining 10% doesn’t have a grudge against Vista, it simply doesn’t like 64-bit systems. I also run a separate machine under XP, but I use that pc only when I need to. For the most part, the use of my XP system centers around my expensive Rosetta Stone purchase not working on my 64-bit (Vista) pc and when I am stuck in the office with XP.
I would say the biggest reason to NOT upgrade from XP to Vista is the cost. Microsoft is pretty damn cocky when it comes to how much they think the non-OEM version of their OS should sell for.
Bottom line: I LOVE VISTA, and I avoid XP systems in my life when possible. I’m not going to write paragraph upon paragraph here about VISTA it better: 1/3 of the reasons are technical, 1/3 of the reasons are aesthetic (like DX10 in some of my games *BIOSHOCK!*), and 1/3 of the reasons are functional. At my minimum of 60 hours per week in front of a pc, I simply can’t afford to deal with XP crashes, inefficiency, or a system that no longer keeps up with some of the latest tech I use.
As for you, you won’t unfortunately know if you will like Vista until you use it for a few months. Realize there will be a learning curve, as there will be with every new OS you learn as you hone your technical prowess.
Update 7/28/09: forced to use Mac.
I got a new job at a small company where there’s a Mac in everyone’s office, including mine. I have no choice but to use it due to their Apple-only server. It is a form of torture. I am a computer geek, so I try for the life of me to enjoy my Apple experience — to no avail. There are a couple features that I like on the Mac OS, but I waste half my day figuring out how to work fluently with the 20 or so windows that I have open for a project. The leap from XP to Vista is NOTHING like the leap from Windows to Mac OS. Vista improves the things in XP that bother you, but it isn’t like working with an alien system. I guess if I had used Apple my whole life and then jumped right into Vista, it may have been a 1-star review. But then you probably aren’t reading this because you are a Mac user.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve been running it on my laptop for about a year now, and even as Microsoft gets ready to replace it, I have to say that it just isn’t as bad as everyone says it is, at least for the kinds of uses a student of library science might have for it — online classes, speech recognition (not great but it gets easier as you get used to it) and running Explorer 8, Opera or other browsers. Plus the games are very good, although the program has a maddening habit of going black while you’re playing the games. It also runs some down-market games well, like the old Risk.
Rating: 3 / 5
Have been running this on my laptop for months. No complaints and really I notice no real improvement over XP
Rating: 4 / 5