Something nice to say about Vista?
April 20, 2008 6:57 am Daily lifeWe have 5 computers in the Dopkins household, 2 of which run on Vista:Hannah’s laptop and one of mine. It has been kind of fun to see the differences and many more before me have written all about how Vista is not really worth an “upgrade” from XP. Yea, I agree with that.
Vista may be the next windows ME, but I don’t HATE it. It’s fine for someone who’s purchasing their first PC and will be using all new software and hardware, just kinda no fun if you want to use your Adobe acrobat 7 (not Vista compatible). And until recently, Palm desktop software. Oh- and don’t even try to join your work domain and work with an exchange server. On my cheap Everex laptop it’s been a fun little experiment.
What I wanted to share with you is this: I am kind of a rebuild fiend. I actually ENJOY wiping out a hard drive and building fresh and tend to do annually, whether I need to or not; more often on my office laptop. So I just did my first Vista hard drive wipe out and rebuild.
Get this: I didn’t have to reinstall any drivers!!! What a wonderful surprise. I was done in like 3 hours instead of 8. Wow. Nice. And Palm desktop is out of beta and now works great with Vista & Office 2007.
