New laptop with Vista

Xavion Kron wrote on 4/23/2008, 8:12 AM

The new laptop I've picked out runs Vista. How much of a head ache will I have with Vegas and Vista? I was told by the sales person it's possible to run Vista and XP on the same machine is that really an option?

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ADinelt wrote on 4/24/2008, 11:25 AM

I bought an HP laptop last year that came with Vista Home Premium on it. I called HP support and asked if I could get the XP CD instead of the Vista CD. Short answer was no since Vista was already matched to my laptop. What was amusing is that HP said they were starting to ship laptops with XP again as there were too many complaints about Vista and sales were dropping.

So, after I was done on the phone with support, I made my own Vista recovery discs, as per recommendations in the manual, then installed my own copy of XP Pro. Never looked back. I just don't like Vista for stablity, performance and driver issues. I feel Vista is the new 'Windows ME' and won't upgrade to a new OS until something better comes along.

Al

Laurence wrote on 4/25/2008, 11:41 AM

Windows Vista has some cool looking but CPU intensive features that can be disabled to give you more XP-like performance. For instance, when you play a media clip, Vista will play it in a miniature thumbnail window along with other screens that are currently in motion. This is pretty cool, but I disabled it to improve performance. Vista doesn't have to be the CPU hog it defaults as.

John_Cline wrote on 4/25/2008, 1:47 PM

Vista tweaks that work:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

CorTed wrote on 4/25/2008, 2:25 PM

Thanks John.
Some good tips there....

Harold Brown wrote on 4/25/2008, 3:20 PM

I would never upgrade to Vista from XP because there is no reason too. But I bought Vista Ultimate when I built a new machine recently. My XP machine was really running like crap because it was over 4 years old. So comparing the 2 in that scenario Vista is far superior to what I have been living with the past year. I have seen Firefox go dead a couple of times. I assume it is related to Vista memory problems but I don't know. Firefox on my XP was extremely slow ands sometimes never really fully loaded all of the page. It was doing that for almost 3 years and I don't know why.

johnmeyer wrote on 4/25/2008, 6:30 PM

Firefox on my XP was extremely slow ands sometimes never really fully loaded all of the page. It was doing that for almost 3 years and I don't know why.

Probably anti-virus software interfering.

1marcus4 wrote on 4/25/2008, 10:48 PM

I have had no problems with VISTA to date (6 months). The SP1 upgrade also completed flawlessly. Now my HP dv9640us laptop is visibly quicker with most tasks. Vegas seems very stable.

I truly believe VISTA was written for the programming community first and foremost, not the end user. XP had some real low level programming issues. However, there are also user centric upgrades which are pretty cool also.

Take a look at the following web page and have an open mind...
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931914,00.asp

Mark