Friday, January 25, 2008

Feelings On Vista and other such important matters

I got a Vista laptop. Its an E-Systems laptop. And don't worry if you've never heard of it before, neither had I.
It has 1 GB Ram which means doing to much to quickly will hurt it. But whatever way Vista is set up to work with hardware whenever i put it under pressure to perform it speeds up a huge amount. I had read that ReadyBoost, the new feature on Vista that can use a memory stick as a Flash Cache, only works best under pressure and perhaps its the same for the core.

Visually vista looks amazing. the Aero effect is quite spectacular. I still have an XP computer at home but it just looks so dull, so lifeless. In terms of visuals only Leopard can come close.

I find that the Sidebar is quite useful only for keeping an eye on my connection and Core. otherwise its a bit shit. there isn't enough yet for it.

SP1 is due out in a few months and hopefully it will fix a few problems with Vista, Perhaps:
Lower demand on Processer.
Lower demand on RAM
Lower demand on Battery time. On the lowest power setting the laptop still won't do an hour and a half.
A Clean up of the Gadgets available that simply don't work or crash the Computer.
A way to set up auto checks for updates. Without it i find 24/36 hours goes by without it checking for an update and since Vista is so finicky still any update is brilliant for it.

If Santy can't help me with this, I'll try Jim!