Hi Simon! >> It's interesting that not many people seem to be affected by this Vista >> problem. > Are many people running Vista though? :)
Hm, good point. ;-) > Not really Beta related, but how are you finding it with your apps and > hardware? I don't know if you have seen the BBC website article here; > makes interesting reading for folks considering Vista -: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6407419.stm > We've had a number of test units running at the office with Vista > installations both Beta and Release it's been a mixed bag of joy, pain > and disaster! One thing is clear, the Microsoft Upgrade Adviser cannot > be trusted, very often no=yes and yes=no :) Well, really bit of off-topic, but interesting anyway. Looking at all pros and cons I'm happy with Vista. Vista takes a lot of hardware. My notebook is a Pentium M 740 (Centrino) with 1.73GHz and 1GB of RAM. Starting Vista without any programs installed takes 540MB of RAM. Now with all applications installed it takes a bit more (startup stuff etc pp) and the system partition with 15GB is nearly full. I suggest 20GB as system partition of you don't use it for "My document" or stuff like TB data files. It recognized most of my hardware on install, the rest excluding the card reader (I used the HP driver for that) was recognized after the first Windows Update. On my client it did not recognize a Adaptec 2940U (!) and a Creative Soundblaster Live! Audigy. I did not try to get drivers for this (working on my server takes a lot of time...) but it did confuse me. Most of all the Adaptec 2940U. I need this thing because of the expensive HP scanner I'm running with this card. Look and feel is great, I also like the new security stuff. You work as a "normal user" now and if a program needs administrative rights a check box appears. Games seem to be a problem, but Quake 3 Arena runs. ;-) And I don't need anything more. Also the 64 bit version seems to be a problem, too. Lack of drivers. What I'm really having problems with are the PC-Card cards I'm running. Most of them don't work anymore. No drivers. But I think this will be solved in the next weeks/months. I also installed Office 2007 but did not use it exept opening and printing existing documents (Word and Excel). This really looks strange but all people tell me that for beginners it has a lot of advantages. For me as a Office since Word 6.0 user it looks very confusing. -- Regards, Martin The Bat! v3.98.3 powered by Windows Vista 6.0 Build 6000 ConCarne cooks best since 1998 http://www.concarne.org
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