Well it’s been 72 hrs since I fired up my “new” (refurb) desktop with Vistra Home Premium and truthfully, it has been as bad as I thought. Of course, I thought the worst after finding virtually no one liking it and of course the clever and not that far off Apple commerical.
My new box is a HP Slimline S3300T (Intel Dual Core Intel 1.8Ghz/2GB RAM/500GB HD/Vista Home) for less than $300. Hard to beat that! I was prepared in the event the Vista was as bad as people say and I thought with a XP system disks standing by.
My core programs and current peripherals installed with little problems.
- Adobe Illustrator 9
- Adobe Photoshop 6
- Brother HL-1440 laser printer
- Canon Lide 60 scanner (utility required update)
- Canon ip6600 printer
- Microsoft Office 2000
Files migrated fine as far as I can tell. They’re backed up onto an external drive regularly, so that wasn’t too difficult.
- Photos: 60,000/107GB
- Music: 2280/19.6GB
Visually, the GUI’s really nice looking (ala Mac) and with a new iMac in the house. Easy to compare.
So far the most annoying thing is the pop-up when you’re moving/deleting/whatever. Again made popuar by the below Apple commerical. XP did something similar but it was generally only one warning. Vista is 2-3 on most things. Haven’t decide yet to disable it or not just yet.
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