Windows Vista is not something new, in fact, it was released way back early 2007. But it is not until just recently that I got my hand on my very own notebook with Vista preinstalled. Honestly, I am one of the many who, as XP loyalist users, had been telling others the "Bad" side of Vista and convincing people to stay with XP.
Just a side note...Vista comes in several flavours (Home, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate) each having its own ups and downs. I found this website showing the feature comparison between each flavour. Mine is Vista Business.
The very moment I started my new ThinkPad, I was like....yikes! Vista! Okay, I admit I had not really fully used Vista before, and perhaps after more than a year in the market, Microsoft would have fixed majority of the "negative" side of Vista. But then again, even XP still have issues as of this writing.
After two weeks of actual usage. I have to agree with the critics, Vista is not as friendly as XP (as far as I am concerned). My major comments: it IS slow and it is TOO protected. Of course there are "tweaks" to make it fast, but hey, at 2.16Ghz and with 2GB RAM, I would expect it to be faster than my good old notebook with slower CPU speed with lesser memory (1GB RAM) under XP. With the new higher specs, I would have experienced high speed computing should it had come with Windows XP. I guess it's true, if you want Vista, go get better hardware first.
In search for "tweaking" Vista... I came across PCStats. They had compiled 99 ways to squeeze Vista. Click here is the link. Of course not all of the solutions are applicable, but you can really boost a bit out of the slowness.
But again, after two weeks of usage... I still agree with the critics. Next few weeks might change...who knows.
