Vista Ultimate upgrade worth 195?

[hans007]

Originally posted by: nerp
I hope people who scoff that Vista is "bloated" aren't using these programs:

Norton anything
Zonealarm
anything Real
anything Nero
Acrobat
iTunes

etc.

i actually use vista at work to test compatibility. i'm running vista basic home, in a vmware session with 512mb ram allocated. if you turn off the spyware and firewall apps it runs really fast and seems to boot faster than XP (though my xp vms only havef 256mb).

so i suppose if you dont turn all that crap on vista is not slow. i am not sure the impact of aero glass on it since i only run home basic for testing.

i dont really think that a typical person is going to see a huge difference or even really say its "better", but i suppose if you can get a good deal now, its really not worse so you might as well buy it if you think its a good deal (since its inevitable that you'll have to upgrade for say 4gb ram support or something like that)

 

[bsobel]

i am not sure the impact of aero glass on it since i only run home basic for testing.

On most machines aero is faster than non-aero since the it's gpu accelerated which relieves the CPU of some work.

 

[lxskllr]

Just about everything is faster for me on Vista, especially bootup and shutdown. I have a usable desktop much quicker in Vista than XP.

 

[bigi]

XP has been here for 10+ years. Vista will last the same or more. $20/year seems more than fine.
Stupid people b!tch about Vista this, Vista that, but they spend $500+ for a vid card that will be obsolete in 2 years...