Tom's Overly Detailed Vista Review

prostoalex writes "The weekend is here, and several software sites have published extensive reviews of Windows Vista for your reading enjoyment. Tom's Hardware is running a 500 hour Windows Vista review that spreads out 40 pages." From the article: "This new operating system is huge: it has more than 37,800 files, taking up a total of 10 GB. Part of this size stems from the fact that the current Beta is for the so-called "Ultimate Edition", which contains all available components, including complete versions of both Tablet PC and Media Center capabilities. In addition, many applications have been compiled in debug mode, so some space savings should occur for final versions once that debug switch is turned off. For our Windows Vista preview, we used Build 5381."

Comments

Too many pages

[Bromskloss]

Tom's Hardware is running a 500 hour Windows Vista review that spreads out 40 pages.

Please tell Tom's Hardware that in this age of wonderful technology, even a 500 hour review (whatever that is supposed to mean) doesn't have to span any more than a single page. I wouldn't read this one even if it was about something interesting.

Re:10 gigs thats not huge anymore

[Ekarderif]

But the 12 gigs of Linux also include all the programs you will ever need. What does Windows bundle with that same amount of space? Virus scanners, spyware removal, and the beautiful Aero!

40+ pages on Tom's = 400 words

[EllynGeek]

Someone needs to tell Tom's that you can fit more than 10 article words per Web page, even if 99% of it is advertising.

Not only a dupe, but...

[TheNetAvenger]

Not only is this story a repeat, but it is worth mentioning that the Tom's review is basically pictures of the OS with almost NO technical details on Vista. They even are incorrect on features of DirectX 10 in the review.

All these 'wonderful' reviews running around on Vista, and still none exist that talk about the OS itself, all the reviews are doing is throwing up some pictures of the desktop and talking about AERO.

For example have you yet seen a review that mentions key points of the new OS of things that changed, like kernel changes, new memory management, new process scheduling, how the Video Driver is moved up from kernel level to user level, but still getting kernel level performace or even anytyhing on the vector based composer that is behind the AERO or WPF?

Nope...

Until you see these types of reviews, all you are going to get is a taste of the freaking eye candy and nerds going, "Here is the control panel" (Picture)

There's nothing to read

[Tim Ward]

There's essentially no text - it's just lots of pages of screen shots. (Well, up to page four or five anyway, I got bored and stopped at that point.)

Re:I TOLD them it was a dupe!

[Propaganda13]

If it's a rerun then it should have started with "This article was originally aired on..." since this is a news site.

Microsoft Appliance

[NullProg]

Windows isn't a generic OS anymore. You can't program your own devices. You have no control over what drivers are loaded. You can't delve into the inner chamber of ring 1 or 2. Vista means 'You can't get there from here'. Welcome to the world of centralized computing. A Mainframe on your desktop/laptop. Instead of being controled by IT, your computer is controlled by Microsoft.

Its not a personal computer if you don't have full control over it. Its a Microsoft approved appliance.

My two cents.
Enjoy,

Re:10 gigs thats not huge anymore

[michaeldot]

Agree, the "Nobody uses Notepad" sentence in the parent post was the only one I disagreed with.

Right-clicking then Open in Notepad has to be the most common action for me and many others on a Windows machine.

Well that pretty much goes for the whole website

[JudgeFurious]

  Seriously, Tom's Hardware could crank out 40 worthless pages reviewing a fucking toothpick these days. I eludes me why anyone continues to try and read that shit. The thing hasn't been worth looking at in over 5 years.

Re:10GB? You have got to be kidding!

[kimvette]

A similar level of capability?

I wasn't aware that Microsoft was bundling SQL Server, Microsoft Office, a variety of development suites, full mail servers, various database front ends, multiple scripting languages, a HUGE selection of drivers (including source), a huge variety of desktop environments, a huge selection of media players, a slew of networking protocols and enterprise-capable server applications AND dropping the 10-connection limitation. Thanks for enlightening us! ;)

(Hint: 8GB of SuSE or any other Linux distribution includes the capabilities of all of the above and much, much more)