vista- gapaood or bad move?

233 · 18 Jan 2008 at 17:17

just about to install vista and i'm having second thoughts,

currently running xp sp3 quite happily(although doing a reinstall to freshen things up)

so its a straight choice between

xp sp3 and vista

tell me guys what benefits are there to changing apart from the aero looks?

mame · 18 Jan 2008 at 17:24

If you are unsure then dual-boot. Its really simple. I'm on vista 64bit and have no problems at all. I've got a dx10 graphics card and 4gig RAM so may aswell make the most of it.

m_cozzy · 18 Jan 2008 at 19:53

Ditto dual boot.
Personally I hate vista but very occasionally boot into it to remind myself how frustrating it is

morguk · 18 Jan 2008 at 22:42

Vista is very good. Go for it. The only thing you may get is the odd box like 'Has this program installed correctly?' after you install a program, weird things you dont see on xp. Apart from that, i really have no trouble with it. I have installed it on 2 different spec'd machines and there have been no software or hardware compatibility issues.

dr. sarf · 18 Jan 2008 at 22:46

mame said:
If you are unsure then dual-boot. Its really simple. I'm on vista 64bit and have no problems at all. I've got a dx10 graphics card and 4gig RAM so may aswell make the most of it.

I'm the same - highly recommend taking this route.