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Software : Windows Vista, Ultimate Edition with Service Pack 1 (PC)from: Microsoft
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Brand New - Full UK Retail Boxed - Exactly the same as amazons - Price includes VAT and invoice supplied. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not a worthwhile upgradeA few months ago I bought a new laptop which came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I've now had the opportunity to compare Vista to my desktop PC's XP installation. In summary Vista doesn't make a compelling upgrade. Memory usage is considerably higher, the default User Account Control setup is so overbearing that I disabled it completely and from the perspective of the end user the new features seem to be mostly related to visual tarting up and transparency effects. These new features add ... Read More Rating:  - A few irritations but more stable than XP SP 3 so worth tryingI have been using XP for more years than I can remember and I recently girded my loins and purchased a laptop with Vista Home Premium and I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised. My lower spec dual core laptop with Vista seems to have better performance than my much higher spec quad core desktop running XP. I would also say that Vista is more robust and I have not yet had a program stop responding, which is a common occurrence with XP. I find Vista's need to confirm your permission to do ... Read More Rating:  - Stick with trusty, reliable XP. Vista is a disgrace.I wrote a review of Vista not long after I started using it. I gave it two stars and suggested that while it's not worth replacing XP with Vista as there are a few annoyances, chiefly the lack of some of XP's best features, Vista isn't too bad. I am not a Microsoft basher, as I think XP is an excellent operating system. I've now realised just how good it was after a few months with Vista. I have wasted more time sorting out problems in Vista in two months than I did during the seven years I had with ... Read More Rating:  - Decent OS; I have no desire to switchFrankly, I love Vista. While the minimum system requirements are higher than XP, they are by no means unreasonable, and the result is an OS that's easily as fast as Linux or OS X, and one that is much better laid out as well. Small touches abound. The start menu has been condensed into one box instead of opening a potentially gigantic list of programs, and discrete info and link boxes are peppered throughout, making it infinitely easier to slip from one related task to another. A particularly ... Read More Rating: - Don't know what all the moaning is aboutFirst off, I'm not a Microsoft worshipper, but I'm not into bashing them just for the sake if it either. Initially I listened to the negative comments on Amazon and the net and decided not to upgrade. But when I first encountered it on a laptop at work, I found myself thinking Vista wasn't so bad after all. So in the end I decided to upgrade my home PC and am glad I did and wouldn't consider going back to XP. So let's look at the usual complaints. You DO need a powerful and compatible ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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