Purchase Vista vs. XP

I have a desktop with XP SP2 and it works fine.

I am planning on buying a laptop and want to know if I should get
XP or Vista in my new PC. I hear there are Vista problems.

Comments welcome.
Thank you
harry...

Vista works fine for me, how it works for you depends to some extent on the
hw of your proposed Laptop.
But then win2k worked fine for me, but I had to upgrade to winxp in order to
run certain software.

"harryhacker" <> wrote in message
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>I have a desktop with XP SP2 and it works fine.
>
> I am planning on buying a laptop and want to know if I should get
> XP or Vista in my new PC. I hear there are Vista problems.
>
> Comments welcome.
> Thank you
> harry...

"harryhacker" <> wrote in message
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>I have a desktop with XP SP2 and it works fine.
>
> I am planning on buying a laptop and want to know if I should get
> XP or Vista in my new PC. I hear there are Vista problems.
>
> Comments welcome.
> Thank you
> harry...

Depends. If everything you have works with XP, this perhaps should be your
first choice.

If you don't have dependencies on drivers, devices, don't mind a performance
hit on network and disk I/O, and want the latest Microsoft Vista, then
Vista. Aero looks nice, but the rest of Vista is a slug. Would trade Vista
in for XP Pro x64 if I didn't have to re-purchase a second OS. Something
about being double dipped...

If you are really a hacker, XP. Would not doubt XP has more and better hack
tools.

Vista requires more powerful hardware than XP.

I use both (Vista on my desktop, XP on my laptop). I prefer Vista, but to
be honest it's a bit of a disappointment, all things considered. Bearing in
mind that even really good laptops seems sluggish compared with desktop
machines, I'd probably recommend you choose XP for your new laptop.

SteveT

Vista is getting better and does have some nice features. It's also more
secure, however that security can make Vista a royal pain to use and there
is definitely a learning curve. With that said, if you never have Vista you
won't miss Vista but if you do get Vista there is a decent chance you'll
miss XP.

Mark

"harryhacker" <> wrote in message
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>I have a desktop with XP SP2 and it works fine.
>
> I am planning on buying a laptop and want to know if I should get
> XP or Vista in my new PC. I hear there are Vista problems.
>
> Comments welcome.
> Thank you
> harry...

harryhacker wrote:
> I have a desktop with XP SP2 and it works fine.
>
> I am planning on buying a laptop and want to know if I should get
> XP or Vista in my new PC. I hear there are Vista problems.
>
> Comments welcome.

Most of the problems (92.7%) associated with Vista are due to incompatible
hardware (tube-type scanners with hand cranks, for example). You should have
none of these problems with a factory-installed OS.

Any Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM will run Vista Home Premium nicely. My
laptop runs Vista BETTER than it did XP. Lots of times XP became sluggish
when was doing something else. Vista stays responsive and quick.

Whether or not one is a gamer largely determines if integrated graphics is
acceptable.

"Steve Thackery" <> wrote in message
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> Vista requires more powerful hardware than XP.
>
> I use both (Vista on my desktop, XP on my laptop). I prefer Vista, but to
> be honest it's a bit of a disappointment, all things considered. Bearing
> in mind that even really good laptops seems sluggish compared with desktop
> machines, I'd probably recommend you choose XP for your new laptop.
>
> SteveT

Well, Vista seems to have a lot of "glitches". It seems not enough time was
spent on it. But anyways, for any problem, there's some way to get around it.
I just reccomend that if you select Vista, Back Up all your files ASAP!

If you are used to XP and can get XP on a laptop, I would go with that.
Although Vista is the newer operating system, its not the better one. The
biggest differences are that there are a lot of "visuals" that are pointless.

XP seems to be the better candidate.

"DL" wrote:

> Vista works fine for me, how it works for you depends to some extent on the
> hw of your proposed Laptop.
> But then win2k worked fine for me, but I had to upgrade to winxp in order to
> run certain software.
>
> "harryhacker" <> wrote in message
> news:74D25E27-839F-4238-8A5B-...
> >I have a desktop with XP SP2 and it works fine.
> >
> > I am planning on buying a laptop and want to know if I should get
> > XP or Vista in my new PC. I hear there are Vista problems.
> >
> > Comments welcome.
> > Thank you
> > harry...
>
>
>

"Xian" <> wrote in message
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> Well, Vista seems to have a lot of "glitches". It seems not enough time
> was
> spent on it. But anyways, for any problem, there's some way to get around
> it.
> I just reccomend that if you select Vista, Back Up all your files ASAP!
>
> If you are used to XP and can get XP on a laptop, I would go with that.

> Although Vista is the newer operating system, its not the better one.

The opposite has been true for me.

> The biggest differences are that there are a lot of "visuals" that are
> pointless.

Simply wrong. There are MANY differences between XP and Vista beyond Aero,
etc. Some features like UAC may irritate some. Others like improved
indexing and SuperFetch are performance enhancing.

> XP seems to be the better candidate.

XP is a very good OS, no doubt. But Vista, SP1 with compatible drivers and
up-to-date third-party software, on a computer devoid of crapware, has XP
beat, IMO.

> Most of the problems (92.7%) associated with Vista are due to incompatible
> hardware (tube-type scanners with hand cranks, for example). You should
> have none of these problems with a factory-installed OS.

I agree. The one problem you will have is a machine smothered in crapware.
The first thing to do with a newly-bought Vista laptop is clean out all the
vendor-provided junk. It will start faster and run faster once you've done
that.

SteveT