Peeps Who Have Upgraded From XP to Vista

move baby, move...

I moved immediately.

I find Vista extremely fast, effiicient and cool. Its index search feature leaves others in dust. Of course, like XP junk slows it down but considering it's still early days I love it and would never go back.

i made the move early and i dont regret it.

I'll be installing Ultimate on my Voodoo Envy soon. I'll let you know how it goes!

Vista Ultimate on my m9700 and i'm definetly not looking back.

Ok, i had probs with my hard drive 8 months into owning this puter. so, after getting the part i needed to get up and running i just decided to get the drive i wanted. so, i installed the factory copy of XP Home it came with. and guess what? 7 weeks later for no really good reason, XP crashed. i take exceptional care of this laptop, both the software and hardware environments. im an IT major, and thus computer literate. i dont have ANY risky behaviors and i treat this thing like diamonds to a poor man.

That said, XP still died for no good reason. That REALLY SERIOUSLY ticked me off. on that very day, i got out my copy of Vista i had gotten through school, and i decided XP can go to HE##.

I have Vista Ultimate, i went ahead and got the Extras and i like it. i installed it and formatted right over top of XP. the format AND install took under 40 minutes from start to first boot of Vista. it was smooth as silk, painless, fast, easy, and DEFINITELY a LOT MORE user friendly.

From the very first moment, Vista was FASTER. and as i started to use it, heavy use and light use, mobile or at home, etc, i also noticed that Vista was FAR more stable too.

Its also got a LOT more features than XP ever had. the networking extras DO make a difference. the mobility features ARE nice and DO make life easier than XP could ever hope to be, even with addons. the encryption of bitlocker, and the security and peace of mind of complete pc backup are just enormously useful and work like a charm.

the Aero effects, and the way the search and the start menu are set up, the way the files work, the disk management features, all of it make Vista TONS better than XP ever was, again, even with addons.

And it IS faster, smoother, more reliable, and safer.

I wont ever go back to XP either. my laptop LOVES Vista, and it plays so much nicer than XP ever did with my Laptop. as you can see by the my sig, the laptop is a pretty nice little rig. is it the fastest and best out there? not even close, but its still a great little rig too, and with Vista it is so much more fun and so much more useful.

I love Vista. I really do.

You know, i had Vista sitting on my desktop at home in my room since about february. I got it, and there it sat. I had heard all the rumors, and frankly they worried me enough to put it off and just not do the install. even as a dual boot, i didnt trust it enough to try it.

I had heard about the ram usage, CPU spikes, driver problems, messed up installs, lack of compatibility with software, etc.

To this day, i have been running Vista for about a month and a half. I have YET to have a single: driver problem, crash, BSOD, software incompatibility issue, or glitch.

One more thing. i got this laptop with XP home, with minimal media support. Now, with Vista Ultimate, I have Windows Media Center, and it is awesome! needless to say, I'm a pretty happy guy.

Now, im used to having XP Pro on the desktop and on all the computers in the labs at school. so im pretty familiar with all the forms of XP and i have seen them all in enough detail to know them and how they stack up against Vista. THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, but i like Vista a lot better. Vista was, to me, a worthy upgrade. the only thing i really regret, is being too dumb to try it out and findout for myself if the rumors were true or if the product would stand on its own. The Truth is, it stands on its own two feet and does really well.

As its been out there longer and longer, there will be more and more drivers. a buddy had a prob with no creative logic drivers, so he un installed. two weeks later, the drivers are out. lots of people had problem installs. again, i fail to see it. it was easy and the most user friendly install of ANY software ive ever done. i really was impressed.
The features of Vista in general, especially ultimate (for a laptop) are really worth it.

Just my $0.02 on Vista, but its all from first hand experience USING VISTA, for a fair amount of time, too.

ev

i do have ONE b#tch about Vista. My battery life isnt what it used to be with XP. that's OK, though, 'cause i have a car charger and two wall chargers, and an extra battery.



ev

Is anyone running a tablet pc on Vista? How is is compared to XP Tablet Edition?

I like it it feels fine to me everything works fine except my webroot desktop firewall isn't compatible but thats the only thing that doesn't work for me other than that its been fine for gaming and my computer can handle anyhting i throw at it but yea its great looks great runs great its awesome I like it better than XP


whats are the differences between Vista Home premium and Vista ultimate?
anyhting special?

There is added wireless networking support included in Vista Ultimate thats not included in Home Premium. for instance, Ultimate has support for VPNs and some other little tricks and whatnots that arent in Prem. Also, the Bitlocker hard drive and virtual drive encryption and file encryption tools are not there in Premium as they are in Ultimate. Ultimate takes all the wireless and security of Vista Business, and Takes all the media center and media stuff from home premium along with Aero and the other goodies that Vista has in general and combines em. basically its like all the high points of Biz and Home Prem all in the same OS.

Since this laptop is a Biz computer AND my home/ play computer, i chose ultimate because i wanted all the functionality. And, i really am glad i got Ultimate. its awesome. does so many incredible things. and remember, my laptop came with XP Home, so its quite a step up for me. i will NEVER EVER go back to XP. Vista is the cat's meow, especially compared to XP.

ev

Awesome Thanks for the helpfull info

When it comes right down to it, I liked Vista when I had it installed except for the driver issues. I will be returning to Vista once it has a service pack.. or two.. under its belt.

There were minor stability issues for me and some major driver issues. But a good portion of us remember what XP was like when it first came out, so I have faith that it will get cleaned up eventually.

I am planning on upgrading my desktop to Ultimate very soon. I tried a demo for awhile and it seemed to run really good except for the initial driver issues.

yeah driver issues are getting much better every day. Vista runs really really awesome! i love it. XP was not the most stable and i take great care of my laptop and do all the right things. it still wasnt that stable. of course it was XP home so what do i expect, i guess. Vista Ultimate has been a real godsend. truly takes advantage of and makes the most of my laptop. i really am impressed with it.

ev

I am running x64 Vista Ultimate and almost every driver was installed by Vista at installation. Everything I have works.

Ok when i bought my laptop it came with Vista preinstalled. So i switched to xp. Dont regret it yet. and my friends who do use vista. yea they love it. but wow. they freeze up all the time. i think its more of an opinion thing