I had a Dell laptop. I traded it to someone for a Macbook Pro. I
recently traded the Macbook Pro to someone else for a Core 2 Duo Dell
notebook. Went full circle, and got a hardware upgrade for $0.
Anyway, the first thing that I did was install my MSDN copy of Vista
Ultimate (32 bit). It supported most of the hardware in my Dell Inspiron
e1505 right out of the box. The only thing that tripped me up was the
native Vista drivers for my wireless card (Dell 1500 Pre-N) wouldn't let
me join my wireless (WPA Personal) network. I installed Dell's XP
drivers for the card and it worked great. I have one or two things
showing up as unknown devices in Device Manager - I'm not sure they're
anything too important - probably related to the 5-in-1 card reader the
laptop has that I don't really need to use.
Aero is nice, especially coming from OSX.
Bluetooth support is much better in Vista than it was in XP. My laptop
will stay paired to my phone (old skool Ericsson T39) and allow me to
communicate with it, which is something that OSX could never seem to do.
I've found some older stuff needs to be run as an administrator at least
once when you enter serial numbers and stuff. Fortunately when left
clicking on an executable OR shortcut there is a context menu item "Run
as Administrator."
User Access Control is much less annoying than it was in the betas. The
gadgets are nice - I hope they add more. It saves me from having to load
Konfabulator.
Overall I am pretty happy with it. It seems no slower than XP. I have
already managed to crash Explorer, but to be fair that was when I was
browsing a flaky samba share.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Did any of you find any major headaches moving to vista?
I kind of see it as nothing to get excited about. Is that true?
