Windows Vista

[PhotoSamJ]

Vista will be here Tues. and the question is... to Vista or not to Vista?


Sam

[Bartman01]

Unless you are buying a new computer: NOT.

One issue I have already heard of is the upgrade wizard telling you that you can "run" the ultimate edition - just neglecting to inform you that your computer is incapable of running all of the extra stuff - so you basically get the functionality of the basic edition for the price of the ultimate edition. If you don't have an HDCP compliant monitor you may find that some HD video content that works fine under XP is downressed to 480p by Vista.

Unless there is a specific feature that you cannot live without I would stay on XP until all the early issues shake out (and maybe even until SP1).

[Jim]

As long as Xp works for all of my necessary programs, I will not be upgrading.

[Detonate]

Originally Posted by Bartman01

Unless you are buying a new computer: NOT.

One issue I have already heard of is the upgrade wizard telling you that you can "run" the ultimate edition - just neglecting to inform you that your computer is incapable of running all of the extra stuff - so you basically get the functionality of the basic edition for the price of the ultimate edition. If you don't have an HDCP compliant monitor you may find that some HD video content that works fine under XP is downressed to 480p by Vista.

Unless there is a specific feature that you cannot live without I would stay on XP until all the early issues shake out (and maybe even until SP1).

Huh? Could you explain further, because I don't believe that to be true at all.

[darktiger]

I have been running Vista Ultimate since RTM and getting it off the MSDN. I have not had any problems with it. Now if I would say stay away if your computer specs are low, or if you have a lot of custom programs. But then again, I still spend most of my time on WinXP. Only 3 of my computers are running Vista, the other 6 still have XP.

[Daniel Bates]

I'm sure Vista is better and all, but XP does everything I need it to, and I'd rather put the hundred bucks or so towards a lens hood and a spare battery or two.

[Detonate]

I have a 1.8ghz laptop with 512megs of ram running vista ultimate rtm just fine at home.

I like it. I've updated all of my computers. There are only a few programs I've had problems with, and all have said they are fixing their problems and expect to have updates out by January 30th. Which is the official launch anyways.

[JohnT]

I plan on getting an iMac possibly by summer so I just don't feel compelled to upgrade my PC. It's running fine the way it is, and I'd rather spend the money on photography stuff.

[rages4calm]

I work for Texas A&M University - Texarkana we have been using vista since microsoft sent us our latest software updates, in my personal opinion windows vista is the next windows me, its buggy, has a terrible memory leak, it doesn't like macromedia (adobe) software, infact it crashes everytime i work on a website (macromedia that is) And with adobe your memory drains very fast and sometimes it will not let you save your work it will give a memory error. I have 3 gigs of ram in my pc at work and dual processors, but don't tell vista that, it doesn't care.

So from my own 2 week personal experience it is good for gaming and office 2007 and is fancy looking with alot of neat gadgets, but terrible for anything that involves hard work.

But that is just my opinion and a few co-workers. Hell even our local best buy doesn't quite recommend it.

However, if you are just using it to work on office 2007 or surf the net, entertainment, it is quite nice for the most part, just watch for compatibility issues. (Mac won this round lol)

I use both pc and mac at work and at home, Latest OS X is what im waiting on.

Originally Posted by Bartman01

One issue I have already heard of is the upgrade wizard telling you that you can "run" the ultimate edition - just neglecting to inform you that your computer is incapable of running all of the extra stuff - so you basically get the functionality of the basic edition for the price of the ultimate edition. If you don't have an HDCP compliant monitor you may find that some HD video content that works fine under XP is downressed to 480p by Vista.

Sorry, no offense but that didn't make much of any sense to me or perhaps i just didn't understand and if you mean it like you worded it that isn't true, sounds like a hacked copy perhaps, but the most current build doesn't do any of that.

[Casper]

Another vote for XP. I'll look at Vista in about a year when I build a new computer. My current computer works fine and fast.

Steve

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by Daniel Bates

I'm sure Vista is better and all, but XP does everything I need it to, and I'd rather put the hundred bucks or so towards a lens hood and a spare battery or two.

That is me too..

XP does everything I need. No use adding even more bloatation to my machines OS. Guess it sells hardware though. The other vendors gotta be pleased about that.

I love building new PCs from scratch.. But I'd like to see serious speed enhancements without the need for bumping minimum requirements so much. Building a machine to Vista specs but running it on XP seems like a more powerful option to me at this point. Eventually, maybe not. But I'll be holding out awhile.

I know we put a hold on any deployments in our production environment at our company for a few months. Perhaps after service pack 1 or something. LOL

I need to turn on my G5 DP Mac I suppose. I have forgotten how to use the thing. Sad that it's a dinosaur already.

[Murph]

No, I have heard too many issues especially DRM, and memory hogging, etc. I'll wait for a year or so. Plus its too expensive.

[robert t]

I'll stick with XP, cause God only knows when new drivers will be out and stable for the video editing hardware.

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by robert t

I'll stick with XP, cause God only knows when new drivers will be out and stable for the video editing hardware.

LOL! No doubt!

I still have an old Canopus DV Storm in my XP machine...None of the drivers installed..and haven't edited with it in several years. Loved it at the time though. Used my Mac with FCP 4.5HD for most of my more recent work.. but that has been a couple of years too. Haven't shot and edited video in so long. I got so burned out.. May have to get back into that someday when the HD specs/workflow is a bit more mature. Got out of the biz just prior to the HD craze due to not wanting to upgrade all my hardware (decks, cameras, etc..).

[brad]

Having just bought a new machine, I won't be upgrading any time soon....

But if ever I had a compelling reason to switch to Mac or Linux, it would be Vista.