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Vista Ultimate?

saratoga

saratoga

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Does anybody have an opinion, negative or positive?

It was a bad weekend for technology at my house... I had to resurrect from death two computers that crashed last weekend once I installed Kaspersky Internet Security. Ended up buying a second HDD and the full version of Vista Ultimate (couldn't find a recovery CD :()for the desktop I just replaced the power supply in that would not boot; got a Seagate 750G 7200rpm SATA HDD for $119, partitioned the drive, loaded up the 64-bit version and things booted perfectly. Hooked up my original HDD to get the files from, blew it away and now have a whopping 1.2T storage on two drives. Woo-hoo. I kind of like Vista so far. Previously, I had XP Media Center which worked well, but of course I couldn't find it in any store last weekend. This PC gets used as a DVR sometimes, and now there are no worries about taking up too much space.

Also loaded the 32-bit version onto my old Dell laptop which works fairly well considering it's 4 years old and only has a 3GHz P4, 40G HDD and 512M RAM.
 
I have Ultimate loaded up on my notebook. Gotta say in spite of all the negative press, it has been just fine for me. I followed a few guides and disabled some of the nagging stuff. For some reason M$ seems to think we are all idiots and the OS keeps asking if "I'm sure?"...LOL... Easy work around though - I enjoy using it.
 
been hard to get used to it, bought a new dell dual core quad w/4gb memory and a whopping 1TB HD....biggest problem is my laser jet printer will not work and it is cheaper to load XP Pro on it than replace the printer....this is what O hate the most...no drivers for existing hardware
 
Yes, the "Windows needs to XXX do you want to continue???" is a very annoying feature that I've noticed. I haven't been able to find a driver for my color laser printer yet either... just have it installed as a generic for the time being.
 
I've been running Vista Enterprise on my Tablet and Ultimate on my Media center PC. For the most part, I like it better than XP. The Media center functions are WAY better and WAY more stable in Vista than XP Media Center Edition (XPMCE would crash on my several times a week; Vista Media Center hasn't crashed on me yet, and the few bugs remaining are the result of upgrading from XPMCE) and Tablet features are far better than XP. The ONLY drawback that I've found, which isn't so much a Vista drawback as it is a 64-bit OS drawback, is that there is no 64-bit Cisco VPN client at this time.
 
I just got a new laptop at work. I had to put Vista Ulitmate on it because Frys was out of Vista Business. I like it so far. Its different. I am currently using it right now. I am still a Mac user. My only complaint I guess is that its a memory hog....
 
...most definitely a hog...you can't have enough memory and the partition for the OS gets sucked up like mad.
My Vista partition is 15 gig...all my other OS's are 5. It'll take it all if you let it and want more.
 
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