Hasta la Vista, Baby

[sooner1938]

I've been buying Dell computers for probably 10 or 12 years now and have mostly been satisfied with the results. Much more so than my first Microsoft-based machine, which was a Gateway. On it, the hard drive crashed within the first 30 days. But to give credit where credit is due, they had a replacement on my doorstep within 48 hours.

Since I've been such a good customer, Dell often sends me sales brochures and on every single page is always the same phrase "Dell recommends Windows Vista Home Premium".

Based on what I've read in this forum, I have to chuckle every time I read that.

I must admit that I'm one of those tech groupies who always has to have the latest and greatest. My son's friends used to call me "Mr. First On The Block". That's the main reason I bought a new desktop with the Vista OS, even though I already had two perfectly good XP machines that weren't that old and with which I was perfectly satisfied. (Well, the old desktop was slowing down quite a bit, since it only had 512 megs of RAM and a 60-gig HD).

I'm just glad I'm a casual computer user and don't have to depend on 'em to support myself because I'd probably be cussin' Microsoft and Vista too.

 

[Brink]

Hi Sonner1938,

Well, with any new OS there will be a few bugs to work out. Vista definitely has few to work out, but you must admit that a big part of this is the vendors and programmers not making their products completely compatible with Vista. Especially the driver vendors.

Hopefully when the SP1 is released and as there is more and more better support, things will be a lot better with Vista.

Shawn

 

[sooner1938]

Hi Sonner1938,

Well, with any new OS there will be a few bugs to work out. Vista definitely has few to work out, but you must admit that a big part of this is the vendors and programmers not making their products completely compatible with Vista. Especially the driver vendors.

Hopefully when the SP1 is released and as there is more and more better support, things will be a lot better with Vista.

Shawn

Truer words were never spoken, Shawn. Me - I'm along for the ride. When you reach my age, you're usually at the point where you don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[Brink]

I like a good roller coaster ride with a lot of bumps anyway. LOL

 

[Knighthawk LS1]

vendors.

Hopefully when the SP1 is released and as there is more and more better support, things will be a lot better with Vista.

From what i understand, windows vista does not require SP to update over all compatibility. It is highly recommended to update vista at least once a week to continue to resolve these issues, and if something doesn't work correctly to report it to Microsoft so they can fix it.granted if your problems are the only one Microsoft gets the update wont come anytime soon. and the larger scale issues get first attention.

I may be wrong, but that is what i've learned.

 

[devilsmaster]

I dont have vista as i like to work on the XP.