Windows Vista is a piece of...
 

(I posted this on my own site but I thought I'd post it here also)

Windows Vista is a piece of...

Ok, there I said it. Windows Vista is officially a piece of crap, IMHO.

Here's the story: I was running a 2 year old machine in my office and here was it's specs:

Intel CPU 3.6 ghz EXTREME Edition
ATI 850 video card
2 gigs of ram
2 Terabytes of hard drive storage running on Raid 0

ON this ^^^ machine, I purchased Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade. Cost me $259. After installing it, I noticed that it was roughly 1/2 the speed of Windows XP Pro, IF NOT SLOWER. After going through every performance tweak I could find, I finally gave up. So being pretty pissed off, I then purchased an ENTIRE NEW SYSTEM.

It's specs currently are:

Intel Quad Core CPU (FOUR processors in one), not 2 but 4, there isn't a faster computer available right now.
Gforce 8800 GTX 768MB video card
4 gigs of RAM
3 Terabytes of hard drive storage running on Raid 0

I actually bought a new machine in HOPES that VISTA would run faster!!. I figured by buying a new QUAD CORE (computer with FOUR processors) would help it's slow down issues. This last weekend was the last straw. I like to do allot of video editing, every time I loaded up a video of ANY SORT into ANY VIDEO program(Premier or even WMP), the system would slow down beyond beleif, to the point of having to restart the system.

So, I consider myself a computer expert and in this case, pretty much a Windows Expert, a definite POWER USER of computers. I reverted BACK to Windows XP Pro. Going backwards sucked hardcore and was very difficult to do, took me hours. there are many things I hated about Vista and will not be touching it again any time soon. In fact, I've decided that my next computer will prolly be a 8-core or quad-core Mac Pro workstation, but am waiting for the OS Leopard to be out for a year or so before I jump.

Don't jump on the amd vs intel bandwagon either, I installed it on another AMD system last week and still, slow as hell.

Hail to MACS

You can probably run a Mac OS on that pc if you like.

I also had a similar exprience. Now i am back on linux again. No way i'll come closer to vista again.

Intel 2.8 GHz CPU
ATI 9800 Pro
1GB RAM

It's running fine, even under stress.

It came on my Acer, it's terrible.
Welcome back to Gentoo! :)

Must not like you,

P4 3.0
1.5Gb ddr ram
2 Sata drives (1 terrabyte)
Runs vista ultimate faster then it did xp. Initially sound never worked but a update fixed that, Same as the onboard nic (whole system except hdd & ram is 3y/o)

The laptop (Amd dual-core 2.0, 2gb ddr2, 160gb sata, 256mb video, 17 wide) Runs premium perfectly

Both pc's, I run resource intensive programs all the time..
Eg: Cs2, Macromedia Dreamweaver + FlashMX at the same time, While surfing the net

Also play Half-Life2 at 1680x1020 (20 inch samsung wide monitor) without glitching or lag

This is kinda weird. I run a PentiumD 840 - dual core 3.2GHz processor, 2GB ram, GeForce 7600GT grafix card, 300GB HDD.

I never had a problem with vista ultimate. It never slowed down that much even when running photoshop or other intensive programs.

The only problem that made me return to XP is that my soundcard company hasn't yet released drivers for vista.

Running Vista ultimate on Athlon 64 3400 .. 2 gig ram .. Radeon 9800 XT and it runs a lot faster that XP Pro.
Photoshop opens twice as fast.
Halo 2 even runs better in Vista.
No complaints about Vista :up:

My brand new, 4GB 3400 runs great on Vista.

...Other than superfetch, explorer and a myriad of other windows services crashing for no reason whatsoever at least twice per session.

Vista is the worst OS I've ever used.

I love it. Just upgraded to Ultimate from Home Premium and its amazing. Nothing about it is slow. The Dreamscene images that come standard are full or errors. But I have a brand new
Toshiba Satallite
2 core 2mhz
2 gig ram just ordered 4 from NewEgg
256 mega Shared Video
200 gig drive

You must have had a bad piece or two of eq that didnt like playing nice.... Sorry to hear that.