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Summary: vista?
Comment: I got Vista which was supposed to be compatible. If you are using Visual Studio, creating ASP.Net applications and connecting to Oracle databases you are out-of-luck. No solutions to that one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Got a Palm? It won't sync
Comment: I just got off the phone with Palm -- they have absolutely no products that will be compatible with this Microsoft 64 bit technology. No patches at all, either. So if you have a Palm -- watch out -- it will NOT work with this. Palm says Microsoft issue. You will not be able to use any Palm software at all. That means if you have a palm PDA, it will forever be stuck in the PDA and not go onto your computer at all, if you get this software.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Such-and-Such Program Has Stopped Working"
Comment: ...and that's all she wrote, folks.
Vista is the worst investment I ever made. I would gladly switch back to Windows XP at any time, but then my 8GB of Ram won't be detected and the computer definitely wouldn't run to it's full capacity. Perhaps that's the only appeal of Vista at this point...being able to run so much Ram that no one is actually going to need for another 4 years (and yes I'm guilty of it too). I have had nothing but problems with this OS since the day it was installed.
If you're looking to purchase the 64-bit Windows Vista package, make sure that you don't need your computer for anything important. I can get nothing to work on this computer at all. Everything you have probably heard about Vista's compatibility issues is true...virtually everything I've tried to use so far has not worked. This includes important peripherals and necessary programs. With my previous computer dying of old age and the tremendous deal on OEM parts on NewEgg, I figured Vista was definitely the way to go. I am so badly regretting that decision now. We use my wife's 5 year old Dell laptop as the primary computer now since my Vista desktop is basically only good for gaming and nothing else.
Here's a list of all the things that are thus far incompatible with Vista. This is all from first-hand experience:
- Dell Printers
- Limewire
- Olympus Digital Cameras
- Canon Digital Camera
- Various types of USB optical mouse
- Dell Jukebox MP3 Players
- I-Pods
- I-Tunes
- Digital Camcorders
- Roughly 80% of games created pre-2006 (that I've tried)
- Various Dell Scanners
- Various HP Printers and Scanners
- Various USB-related devices
- Various speaker systems
- And more every day
I had Vista professionally installed...I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to installations like that so I wanted to have it done by someone who knows what they are doing. When I gave the person the parts and Vista, I thought he was joking when he said "I'll see you again in about a month when you want to downgrade back to XP." If I had only known then what I know now. In one month of owning Vista i've had nothing but frustration and anger. The only thing it does well is run World of Warcraft, and my wife is thrilled at the amount of space we have for her Real Arcade games.
I probably sound like I'm just whining...well, I'm one of the many who have had nothing but problems with Vista. As badly as my old computer was running before it just died, it still was compatible with everything I owned. Since I "upgraded" to Vista 64 with my new computer, I haven't been able to print, scan, load pictures onto my computer, or do anything else that any home office NEEDS.
Don't be an idiot like me and get Vista because you want 8 gigs of ram, which you DO NOT NEED for any logical reason. XP 64 works just as good, and you won't have to deal with Vista's rampant issues. Just think of Vista as the Next "Windows 2000". Since the new Windows is launching in 2009, Vista is just another Microsoft stumbling block that's costing us too much money and wasted time. I'm glad I bought this trash product OEM and didn't pay full price. This is the worst OS I have ever used. Go with XP and stay away from Vista at all costs.
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Summary: Amazingly slow
Comment: I have been using Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit version patiently for several months now. The "performance indicator" says my Windows Vista experience is a 5.6 out of a possible 5.9 -- this is supposed to be some indication of how fast my hardware is. So, my hardware is top notch -- brand new HP quad core Phenom 2.4 GHz processor with 8GB of RAM. As a matter of fact, all my hardware gets a 5.9/5.9 except my video card. But, as soon as I boot, I notice the OS is using 1.5GB of RAM, before I touch anything. If I leave Internet Explorer open, it has a memory leak that gets progressively worse and completely overtakes the system within a few hours. I tried to play a movie, and it struggled to decode it fast enough -- playback suffered immensely.
My patience has run out. I'm reverting back to Windows XP, or at least installing a dual boot configuration, because this machine is just silly slow. I have brand new, top-of-the-line 64-bit hardware and a crazy amount of RAM; and this machine feels slow. I'm amazed at how inferior of a product this is.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but...
Comment: I would recommend this to any gamer BUT, it has problems running some older games. Also, the other big draw back I wish I would of known about, is you can not really play Game Tap anymore except for the 8-bit games...BIG turn off to me :(
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