 "Vista is Working Fine for Me" | 2008-03-21 |
| - Reviewed By keshadylan |
I have XP running on a bootcamp partition on my MacBook and it is doing just fine. I spend most of my working time in Word, hardly ever using any of the other programs in the Office suite. However, I use the Adobe products Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator a whole bunch. Other than that I play solitaire, watch videos and, of course, use both Explorer and Firefox when I go online. That's about it for me, software wise, and XP handles it all without fail, without crashing and without giving me any headaches.
And I will miss it when I upgrade to Vista, however my machine can handle the upgrade, so I'm giving it a try.
Okay, I like the look and feel of Vista, however it's not as snappy as XP or even System X. I like the AERO bit, quite snazzy and one of the reasons my machine runs a bit slower, I suspect, however I'm loath to turn it off as it's so cool.
Word works fine and that's to be expected. My Adobe software runs well too. The browsers, no problem. I did have to upload a printer driver, but that only took a few minutes and I was good to go.
I've read a lot of reviews by people who are having problems with Vista and I'm getting the SP1 upgrade any day and I'll instal it, but I'm not experiencing the problems others appear to be having. Maybe because it's because I only use four or five programs on my Machine. I don't use iTunes or Windows Media as I still listen to my CDs the old fashioned way and only then if I don't have the phonograph record. |
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 "Vista Basic: The closest Vista product to XP you can get" | 2008-03-03 |
| - Reviewed By bsox54 |
Windows Vista Basic is worth purchasing for only a few reasons.
1) It is inevitable that at some point (though certainly not now), Windows will stop creating service packs for Windows XP.
2) Regardless of Vista's RAM-consuming ways, companies have shifted and will continue to shift away from creating software compatible with Windows XP towards software compatible with Windows Vista.
3) Vista Basic is, by far, the least RAM-consuming Vista product available. You might be able to run it without using half of your RAM idling. If you want a more advanced Vista, make sure you have a gigabyte or two of RAM to spare to actually do anything.
Anyways, if you use your computer for internet and simple Word/Excel/PowerPoint documents, don't bother switching to Vista. There's no point. If you like to stay on the cutting edge, get Vista, and stand in awe of its Mac-esque bubbly-ness and ability to do nothing while frying your system resources. |
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 "paranoid" | 2008-02-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A27U7Z62JUZAXK |
| Vista finds everything strange and suspicious, even other microsoft products. Even word documents you wrote yourself will not load without permission being given by a supervisor (I forget the exact title they use) even when you are the only one who uses the computer. You have to do virus checks et al several times a day even if your computer (like mine) is not connected to the internet. It constantly runs programs without asking if you want them or telling you they are running. and then turning the computer off when the program you aren't using turns itself off. Although it is supposed to be compatable with XP programs, it crashes the computer 1/3 of the time if you try to load one. The ones it will run, run at half the screen size. Even programs on your hard drive are pronounced strange and unknown if you dare to try to use them. |
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| "All style, no substance" | 2008-02-07 |
| - Reviewed By i_h8_school2003 |
Bought a new laptop that came with Vista basic on it. I used it for about 15 minutes before I gave up and wiped the hard drive and installed XP. The pointless animations on every menu push the CPU to it's limits, leaving nothing left for, say, internet browsing, or solitaire, for that matter. What especially bugs me is that Vista has such a resemblance to Mac OSX. If I wanted a Mac operating system, I would buy a mac. But no, I guess Microsoft feels threatened, and decided to blend in with the opposition. Well guess what, it didn't work.
Buy Windows XP instead, less flair, more function. |
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 "Great OS if your using an intelbased MAC" | 2008-02-03 |
| - Reviewed By alhambra_ttp2 |
I am a MAC user and Leopard walks all over Vista, however I run both OS's using my new Macbook Pro and I have grown to like Vista somewhat (not nearly as much as OS X Leopard) since I now have a computer than runs Vista with out a hitch. A Hitch meaning I have resources left to do other things other than just run the OS. I choose to buy Home Basic becasue it has the features I need In a Windows OS and allows me access to the windows only programs and games that I cannot access using Leopard. I read the features of all the versions of Vista available and Basic was the only one and chepest one I needed. Premium has extra features that don't mean squat, and Ultimate is used for business people with extra features and cash costs that I don't need. So for a Mac user with the new Macbook pro computing power, and the best OS out there (LEOPARD OS X 10.5) it's nice to be able to run windows when you need it. Mac's have it all friends, and you can even run Vista better than a PC can. In my opnion Vista was made to run as a secondary OS under Leopard onca MAC that can actually handle it to give Mac users access to windows only programs.
Overall Windows Vista Home Basic although no Leopard is a fine secondary OS on a high powered MAC.
Likewise alot of reviweres have the complaint that Vista needs 2 GB of ram min. to run. My old laptop an Athlon 3500+ 1GB ram 80gb HD system (an XP laptop) loaded Vista Home Premimum easily and handled the OS fine right up until I sold it to buy a Mac. I have yet to see a failed Vista installation, or problems using the OS with systems that have 1GB of ram and less. Still for the best Vista experience, buy a MAC and dual boot or use paralleling software to run it with Leopard. |
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| "It is not compatible with Windows XP! And, it uses too much resources!" | 2007-12-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1GFEUIFSG0M6F |
Windows Vista is horrible software. It should not even be called "Windows" because it is not based on Windows XP or 2000! While its graphical interface looks like XP's, Vista uses a different file system.
SO, NO SOFTWARE THAT WAS COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS XP OR WINDOWS 2000 WILL WORK WITH VISTA.
Not only that, but Microsoft chose graphics over functionality: Vista uses 500MB of memory just by itself. After adding Anti-Virus and other software, your computer's performance will grind to a halt.
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| "Vista, the "new Coke" of Windows" | 2007-12-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A190969NUA1NL8 |
| This is a horrible product!!!! I gave it one star only because I don't have the option of giving it no stars. It's extremely slow; I spend so much time looking at that stupid hourglass! And forget multi-tasking! With Windows XP, I could have at least 2 versions of Internet Explorer open at once, along with Excel documents, Word documents, etc. while listening to music on Rhapsody at the same time. Not possible with Vista. Vista is supposed to be more secure, but it's so secure that the person who owns the computer can't use it! Since I am the "computer administrator", I shouldn't have to ask myself "permission" every time I want to change a setting (this feature can be turned off by going to Control Panel, Security Center, Other Security Settings & turning off User Account Control). Also, any audio you listen to (CD's, DVD's, online streaming music) is choppy & sounds like a bad radio with static. Avoid Vista! It's like Windows Me all over again; a big disappointment and a huge mistake for Microsoft! The only "WOW" is when it actually works. |
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| "Works great for me" | 2007-10-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2EUO1PPTC5KDH |
I got a PC loaded with Windows Vista Home Basic and I love it. What a big upgrade from XP as far as look and feel and user experience. This version does not have the slick "Aero" eye candy of Home Premium, nor does it have many of the tools and options such as media center, laptop power center, tablet support, etc. However, I wouldn't use any of that stuff anyway so I don't miss it.
Because of the lack of "add-ons" and the memory and system resource intensive "Aero" interface, Home Basic works in a much smaller memory footprint and can be used on PCs with as little as 512M Ram, though I'd recommend 1Gb. Ram is cheap, just buy it.
Highly recommended version!!!!
The only reason I docked it one star is that I would like to have the option of the cool "Aero" stuff in this version. No, I don't want media Center, tablet support, etc. etc. etc., but it would be nice to have "flip-3D" and transparrency. As it is the UI looks significantly better than the hideous Windows XP. |
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| "Vista OS" | 2007-10-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2E28OKJ4X7K6O |
| I thought I had lost my computer untill I decided to install Vista. Installation was a snap now I have a brand new up to date computer. have Vista on three of my four computers now and I love it. |
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| "If you got XP,stick with it." | 2007-08-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2XRIU3SOYZ0ZC |
| When i went out and got a brand new PC i wanted one with windows vista already on it because i thought it would be better than xp but its not.I will not go into some long winded thing about vistas features becuase thats a waste of time.Vista is xp with some easier navagation through menus and a pretty new coat of paint...thats it!You will find yourself finding files faster,having better security and taking less time getting new software running with Vista than you did with prior versions of Windows.This OS is not leaps and bounds beyond xp like so many of us desired but it's not a total disaster like we feared either.I know Vista Home Basic is the cheapest version of it but if you do a little research you quickly find there is almost no reason to get the more expensive version of this OS.If you spend a lot of time playing PC games like i do then you will be happy with Vista Home Basic.Oblivion,Fear,Half life 1,Half life 2,Any of the GTA games,C&C,BF2,all of these games run just fine with Vista Home Basic.Every single game i have popped into my drive has installed and run perfectly with this OS.I have heard some complaints from gamers that every version of Vista no matter if it's Home Basic or Ultimate has big trouble with running games but i have had no such problem at all.It seems that the same people that are having trouble with games on Vista have installed the OS themselves,this could be the problem!I strongly recommend having Vista installed by a Pro.This may cost a little money but it will save you A LOT of greef in the long run.Even people that have proudly called themselves geeks for years can have trouble with a new OS so it's best to have this thing installed by a tech that has some Vista training under thier belt.If you got enough cash to burn and are gonna have to upgrade more than 50% of your current PC anyway you should just get a new computer with Vista already on it.The bottom line is that Vista Home basic is an O.K OS but if you already have the latest version of XP running on a pretty powerful PC you should stick with that for now.Get Vista a year from now,it might be worth the price then.:) |
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