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May 16, 2007
The "Wow" Ended Yesterday
That's it, after putting up with Vista just over a month I've reformatted my laptop back to Windows XP. Vista may look pretty, and don't get me wrong, my beefed-up DELL XPS M1710 (2gb RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T 7400) has enough juice to run Vista ... for home user that is.
Unfortunately, I'm not a typical home computer or business laptop user. I'm a developer and use my laptop for home development etc. Running Vista is putting extra strain that I don't need. I've put up with it for a while before deciding it ain't worth it. On top of that I have a few more grief with Vista:
- It's too damn chatty. Dialog boxes keep popping out asking me to do something. It's annoying. There's gotta be a way to turn this off.
- Windows Media Player (WMP) stutters near the end of the song. Something that I can't figure out how to fix yet, at the last few seconds of a song, WMP seems to have problem playing back and it introduces a couple of second of "WMP remix".
- WMP takes aaaages to move from one track to another if you force it to move.
- Heavy disk access. Vista seems to keep reading/writing the disk all the time. I've turned off indexing and disk IO is still noticeably (much) higher than XP.
- No nVidia driver for Vista just yet. nVidia hasn't released the GeForce Go 7800/7900 driver for Vista.
- It tries too hard (to be smart that is). There should be a "I know what I'm doing" option that will automatically set everything to "Advanced" mode. For example, not allowing you to do "select all" in read-only and protected folders is probably a life safer for some, but totally annoying for me.
Is it all doom for Vista then? I don't think so. For a start it's very good looking bordering MAC OS X' sexiness. Compare Vista to XP side-by-side you'll notice the big jump in UI.
Also most of my grief above can be attributed to my type of user (developer). A typical home user who use the computer for simple internet/email, games, simple Word & Excel will probably benefit for Vista's new features and the rather harsh safety options. I for one will wait until I absolutely have to upgrade to Vista.
Posted by vhadiant at May 16, 2007 08:10 PM
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http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=vista&thread.id=6860
I just found this, which is supposed to help Dell machines and the like with stuttering sound at the end of the track - I'm just about to give it a go.
Posted by: Daniel Cook at September 14, 2007 08:38 PM
