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

[Shannon Carver]

I've found it runs fine as long as you've got the machine power to suit. 
I really don't think it adds anything much to the experience though. 
Unless I'm missing something, Beryl kicks aero's ass.. :P

> 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
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