I've had my Vista machine for 2 weeks now. It's beautiful. I got the HP m9060n with Quad Core and LG Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player. Watching movies in full 1080p on my Dell 2707WFP is awesome (I recommend CyberLink's new PowerDVD Ultra, which plays both flawlessly). I'm still running my 2 Windows Media Center 2005 boxes, and they can't keep up with Vista when it comes to multi-tasking (my processor helps, the MC's have an Core 2 Due E6400 and Pentium D840). I've tried to freeze Vista up, burning a DVD while running a full virus scan, downloading a movie, executing a complex Photoshop filter AND creating custom voice commands with Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional. The Vista GUI may not mean much to some, but I really appreciate the snazzier graphics. I'm able to use all the hardware I had hooked up to my older machines: Epson CX6600, Epson Stylus 1270, Canon IP4200, Epson RX595, HP dvd740 external burner, Sony DRX840U burner, Wacom Graphire tablets, Logitech USB Microphone, Western Digital external HD, Logitech speakers. I can transfer video's and pictures no problem (Flip video records, Sony DSH-H2 camera). The Sony ICD-ST10 digital voice recorder even works with Vista.
The only issue I have right now is with the Vista Sound Recorder. WMA voice files recorded with Vista's Sound Recorder wont' play back in WMP11. Just found this out today.
There is definitely a learning curve with Vista. Like most people, I like to get my stuff done quickly, and when something takes 60 seconds to do instead of 10 seconds because I'm learning to do it in a slightly different way, it seems like its really slowing me down. But now that I have all my shortcut keys and custom voice macros setup, everything zips along nicely, and I feel the time I've spent the last couple weeks to learn Vista's interface is time well spent (though I still have lots to learn). Example 1: Click Start, type in 'dev' and press Enter, and I'm in the Device Manager. Example 2: Search. With XP, seaching the 500GB of file confusion that is my external hard drive was slow and required lots of mouse clicks. Once Vista indexed the external drive, search results show up almost before I can hit Enter, it's that fast.
Whatever people find that suits their needs, that's great. I like Vista (I'm also attached to Media Center 2005 - a nice, solid OS).
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I've had my Vista machine for 2 weeks now. It's beautiful. I got the HP m9060n with Quad Core and LG Blu-Ray / HD-DVD player. Watching movies in full 1080p on my Dell 2707WFP is awesome (I recommend CyberLink's new PowerDVD Ultra, which plays both flawlessly). I'm still running my 2 Windows Media Center 2005 boxes, and they can't keep up with Vista when it comes to multi-tasking (my processor helps, the MC's have an Core 2 Due E6400 and Pentium D840). I've tried to freeze Vista up, burning a DVD while running a full virus scan, downloading a movie, executing a complex Photoshop filter AND creating custom voice commands with Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional. The Vista GUI may not mean much to some, but I really appreciate the snazzier graphics. I'm able to use all the hardware I had hooked up to my older machines: Epson CX6600, Epson Stylus 1270, Canon IP4200, Epson RX595, HP dvd740 external burner, Sony DRX840U burner, Wacom Graphire tablets, Logitech USB Microphone, Western Digital external HD, Logitech speakers. I can transfer video's and pictures no problem (Flip video records, Sony DSH-H2 camera). The Sony ICD-ST10 digital voice recorder even works with Vista.
The only issue I have right now is with the Vista Sound Recorder. WMA voice files recorded with Vista's Sound Recorder wont' play back in WMP11. Just found this out today.
There is definitely a learning curve with Vista. Like most people, I like to get my stuff done quickly, and when something takes 60 seconds to do instead of 10 seconds because I'm learning to do it in a slightly different way, it seems like its really slowing me down. But now that I have all my shortcut keys and custom voice macros setup, everything zips along nicely, and I feel the time I've spent the last couple weeks to learn Vista's interface is time well spent (though I still have lots to learn). Example 1: Click Start, type in 'dev' and press Enter, and I'm in the Device Manager. Example 2: Search. With XP, seaching the 500GB of file confusion that is my external hard drive was slow and required lots of mouse clicks. Once Vista indexed the external drive, search results show up almost before I can hit Enter, it's that fast.
Whatever people find that suits their needs, that's great. I like Vista (I'm also attached to Media Center 2005 - a nice, solid OS).