[plug] [OT] Vista is a serious mess?

[Jonathan Young]

caston at arach.net.au wrote:
> I quoted a customer for a new system recently being careful to quote them for XP
> instead of Vista yet on advice from their accountant they decided to flexi-rent
> a HP Media centre PC from Harvey Normans running Vista retailed for more than
> double my quote.  
>
> The setup was terrible. IE kept failing to respond and had to be shutdown
> sometimes taking nearly 5 minutes. The system was utterly sluggish. Took a lot
> of tweaking to get it to play right with Telstra NextG USB wireless device. 
> The system was behaving like most OS's behave when they have bad RAM but I ran
> memtest86 over it and found no problems.
>
> In the end I sold them a OEM copy of XP, nuked the Vista install and put XP on.
> The XP installed worked fine.
>
> SO to try and bring this ontopic I don't think Linux is going to have much
> trouble competing with Vista. They have really laid a turd with this one.
> However I admit I am yet to try Vista on a PC with more than 1gb of RAM. With
> Vista 1gb RAM could be the new 256 or even 128mb.
>
> I have yet to meet a customer that is happy with Vista even when it does seem to
> run OK. As one customer said "it slows everything down".
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>   
I have to reply to this if only to say that all my initial encounters 
are coming back the same with most people claiming 2Gb or even 4Gb is 
required and generally being disappointed with their purchase.

To quote a friend of mine who has a knack for summing things up nicely, 
I recently heard him say, "Microsoft Windows Vista:  Putting the 'meh' 
in 'wow' since 2007."

Personally I'm going to try and avoid it for at least the next six 
months... and then some.

-- 
Jonathan Young
Director of PC-PHIX
jonathan at pcphix.com

Phone: 0410 455 674
Web: http://www.pcphix.com/

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