Vista - Advice on best time to buy

dazco

sco0ter wrote:

Where did you here that???? Could you show me the page please... I have Vista Ultimate installed on my laptop and it doesnt seem to put much more of a strain on it never mind the basic version...

Yes, please do.

Little_John

I wouldnt buy vista for at least 6 months after release. but hey Im still running windows 2000 on this PC My laptop is XP. 2000 is just more stable this system has been on for 7 days without a reboot and the last one was due to new software installation requireing a reboot.

Mizz_Pink

Im running the pre-retail code of vista and seems pretty stable, however when a new OS emerges theres always things that have problems and of course the 1st generation of an OS normally requieres patching and fixing a great deal.

Im going to move to vista as its got a lot of great stuff built in and im enjoying using it, however ill wait until my eval copy runs out in June before purchasing, maybe even there will be an integrated service pack by then.

Oddly enough ive installed it on an Athlon 1300 with an old 20gb disk and 512MB Pc133 RAM, 32MB Nvidia Gfx - and it runs lovely, takes a bit to start up but is very responsive on such an old cobbled together machine.......how odd.

sco0ter

OOOpps

Just to back up my RTM claim before someone asks for proof...


http://blogs.technet.com/upstate-ny-technology/archive/2006/11/08/windows-vista-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

joemardo1

sco0ter wrote:

Not true... From what I believe it is an UPGRADE disk and not a full version which means it will UPGRADE the computer not clean install..

Well doesn't an upgrade version give you a choice on what partition on which to install it, so you could keep xp on c and install vista on d (provided of course you have partitioned your drives this way)

Please correct me if I'm wrong

Joe

movieman

I wouldnt buy vista for at least 6 months

I wouldn't buy any Microsoft operating system until SP1 is out.

Poppycat

My friend who works in IT computer engineer told me he has it on his laptop for work

How did you get Vista ultima when its isnt out yet. Only beta versions of Vista rc1 rc2 etc. He was using rc2 btw

Vista is only just gone gold ie mass produced, not for sale to trade until end of the month

sco0ter wrote:

Where did you here that???? Could you show me the page please... I have Vista Ultimate installed on my laptop and it doesnt seem to put much more of a strain on it never mind the basic version...

Elf_2

Yep that's a true point.

sco0ter

joemardo1 wrote:

Well doesn't an upgrade version give you a choice on what partition on which to install it, so you could keep xp on c and install vista on d (provided of course you have partitioned your drives this way)

Please correct me if I'm wrong

Joe

The way the upgrade of XP and ME worked was that you had to have the previous operating system installed and upgrade it OR you had to have an original (OEM/RETAIL) disk that the upgrade could verify before it would clean install. As you are no longer supplied with operating system disks anymore then the only option would be UPGRADE

sco0ter

Poppycat wrote:

My friend who works in IT computer engineer told me he has it on his laptop for work

How did you get Vista ultima when its isnt out yet. Only beta versions of Vista rc1 rc2 etc. He was using rc2 btw

Vista is only just gone gold ie mass produced, not for sale to trade until end of the month

Yup using my laptop with RC2 as well and it definately is no way near 30% more taxing on my system... My battery life is almost the same doing the same things on Vista/XP..... and by the way the RC2 is not the completed product so to say that it uses more system rescources wouldnt matter anyway as this has no reflection on what the final one uses. The final version may indeed use more rescources but to say so before anybody has actually tried it is misleading.


BTW Beta RC2 was released to the general public so as long as you were quick anybody could get a copy so no mystery as to why I have it... The same was for RC1. I also know it has just went gold (RTM). I posted the link to the news statement...