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Vista reqires more than 15 gig of harddrive space for the basic load. A better choice would have been to stay with XP. A bitter, eye-opening experience. Many areas in the system were restricted as I discovered when I tried to see what was using so much drive space.
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.
I'm amazed at how inferior of a product this is. My patience has run out.
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 have brand new, top-of-the-line 64-bit hardware and a crazy amount of RAM; and this machine feels slow.
I have been using Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version patiently for several months now. So, my hardware is top notch -- brand new HP quad core Phenom 2.4 GHz processors with 8GB of RAM.
I'm reverting back to Windows XP, or at least installing a dual boot configuration, because this machine is just silly slow.
Packaging was as advertised, sealed as stated and was new Old Version. Otherwise I have no problem, would buy from this seller again. Seller shipped in a reasonable length of time. Unfortunately was not able to load on my pc because to many upgrades needed to be made for everything to work.
I get the thing home and my printer does not work (a recent HP laserjet) and my digital camera is also NOT SUPPORTED. The salesman said that Vista was the way to go. WINDOWS VISTA SUCKS. Unless you want to buy a whole knew bunch of peripherials don't buy Windows Vista. My wife recently needed to buy a new computer so we bought a new Dell with Windows Vista. 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.
All other compatable issues i had were eventually solved by driver updates from the device or software manufacturers.I love it. I need not go into how nice the interface looks for i am sure alot of persons have done that for me. 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. 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. I love it. With Service Pack 1 and my regular updates i have not noticed any problems stability-wise.
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