 don’t live up to their potential, I get frustrated. Thus my displeasure with Vista. There are some great things in the OS, but overall it wasn’t well executed. But I’m a general-opinion kinda guy. If you want a run-down of annoyances, you need to talk to Ed and Eric at PC World.</p>
<p>The two Es of PCW have a 5-step, easy-to-digest-on-your-smoke break run down of what they consider the biggest disappointments in Vista. For the most part, they’re right on, though I’d swap the “larger icons” peeve for the “total god damned resource hog”, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>Hit the link for the list. What do you think? What shouldn’t have made the cut? Or, more to the point, what would you add?</p>
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I prefer objective benchmarks on performance rather than subjective ones (since there are about 2 trillion reasons your machine could be faster or slower than another)… a good one is here –
http://techgage.com/article/windows_vista_system_performance_reports
Yeah, Vista is faster than XP was on my system too. Everything works great so far and those annoyances or opinions can be fixed. Vista wins again…
I agree with Paul. Most sites that really test real world or synthetic haven’t found massive differences. As for the brain-dead-meme-propagating “total resource hog” comment – you clearly haven’t read about how Vista uses RAM:
http://thelazyadmin.net/index.php?/archives/396-guid.html
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
As for the list. They deflate almost all of their complaints themselves although sometimes making the fixes sound harder than they are.
>“total god damned resource hog”, but that’s just me
Indeed it is.
Why not learn something about Vista uses the RAM?
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
Sadly my experience has been terrible with Windows Vista, a nightmare in many ways and I’m returning to faithful Windows allows everything to run XP.
http://www.4hurtingchristians.com/windows_vista_problems_like_black_screen_during_games.html