Crazy Buddhist
11-23-2007, 03:40 AM
As Lappy, my new HPCompaq Presario came with Vista on it I left it on. As new MicroSoft software goes ... well, it isn't all bad.
OK it went belly up after a month, probably my fault, and the annoying admin access means investigating such is a pain so I reinstalled from the Compaq partition which all went perfectly.
It manages TCP/IP connection settings dynamically and very well too - and maxes out your bandwidth (see post in OS board).
Another thing it does well is handle USB TV-sticks. Both XP and Win 2K could never do this well in my experience. Jumpy pictures, loss of timing between picture and voice and total machine freezes seem to have been the norm.
That is no longer the case. Vista handles a USB TV Stick with ease, fluidly, non-crashingly and reliably. I'm using mine through Media Centre as the bundled software looks like the dashboard of a Sputnik.
If I were going to be cynical I would say Microsoft have finally made a decent, if expensive, television.
:)
OK it went belly up after a month, probably my fault, and the annoying admin access means investigating such is a pain so I reinstalled from the Compaq partition which all went perfectly.
It manages TCP/IP connection settings dynamically and very well too - and maxes out your bandwidth (see post in OS board).
Another thing it does well is handle USB TV-sticks. Both XP and Win 2K could never do this well in my experience. Jumpy pictures, loss of timing between picture and voice and total machine freezes seem to have been the norm.
That is no longer the case. Vista handles a USB TV Stick with ease, fluidly, non-crashingly and reliably. I'm using mine through Media Centre as the bundled software looks like the dashboard of a Sputnik.
If I were going to be cynical I would say Microsoft have finally made a decent, if expensive, television.
:)