Poor bastard. He started off with "Pentium 4 processor running at 2GHz, 384MB of RAM, a 64MB graphics card, and a Creative SB Live audio card). Since then I had added memory (to 768MB), a second hard disk, extra USB ports and a Wifi card." and then had to upgrade, upgrade, upgrade.
My comments in regular type, the article snippets in italics:
* Where was the internet? I could see my router, but nothing beyond - even after a full day of tinkering with various network wizards. My BBC laptop proved that this was not a problem with my router or ISP.
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* Why did my Philips webcam refuse to work? The Upgrade Advisor had explicitly said it would.
Never listen to Microsoft.
* What hardware was responsible for the three driver errors flagged up by Vista? One seemed to be the sound card - oh yes, why did I have no sound? But which mysterious "PCI input device" was lacking a driver? And what was the "unknown device" flagged up by Vista?
nVidia motherboard chipset. Great Vista drivers. I had no problems with sound, networking. GPU drivers and/or Vista, no good. I use XP for games.
Linksys G PCI card - no problems. Wireless works quite well indeed in Vista, better than the Linksys PCI card does in XP. (Sharing my neighbour's router).
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* Why did I get a "disk is full" error message every time I tried to install my keyboard's new Intellitype software? Why did Vista refuse to uninstall the XP-version of Intellitype?
Mmm... Intellitype. More pain.
* I knew that Apple had failed to make iTunes Vista-ready, so I didn't even try.
Ironically, if he just installed it, he would have found it works quite well as it is, if you don't have purchases, AFAIK. I found Quicktime and iTunes to be generally OK.
* But why did Microsoft's successor of Activesync, called Windows Mobile Device Center, refuse to hook up Outlook to my trusty old Pocket PC?
Ah, Microsoft-based PDAs. More pain.
You will probably enjoy Vista, but there's little reason to do it the hard way.
Best to do Vista with a new computer (that's why the hardware manufacturers love Vista coming 'round to push PC sales and upgrades, mostly brand new PC sales).
Not sure why the author had trouble with his Linksys Wifi card. Probably an older one doesn't work well with Vista. My LINKSYS WMP54G Version 4 PCI card works a treat.
That's the point. This guy is a windows enthusiast and had trouble upgrading. The average user will have even more difficulty upgrading. Should consumers need a 'professional' to upgrade their home systems to vista?
That's the point. This guy is a windows enthusiast and had trouble upgrading. The average user will have even more difficulty upgrading. Should consumers need a 'professional' to upgrade their home systems to vista?
They shouldn't. But the word on the street will be to push a new computer rather than upgrade. Major retailers in several countries, I've seen, it's all "BUY NOW - BRAND NEW COMPUTER VISTA READY - THE WOW IS HERE"....!!
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My comments in regular type, the article snippets in italics:
* Where was the internet? I could see my router, but nothing beyond - even after a full day of tinkering with various network wizards. My BBC laptop proved that this was not a problem with my router or ISP.
TRAGIC
* Why did my Philips webcam refuse to work? The Upgrade Advisor had explicitly said it would.
Never listen to Microsoft.
* What hardware was responsible for the three driver errors flagged up by Vista? One seemed to be the sound card - oh yes, why did I have no sound? But which mysterious "PCI input device" was lacking a driver? And what was the "unknown device" flagged up by Vista?
nVidia motherboard chipset. Great Vista drivers. I had no problems with sound, networking. GPU drivers and/or Vista, no good. I use XP for games.
Linksys G PCI card - no problems. Wireless works quite well indeed in Vista, better than the Linksys PCI card does in XP. (Sharing my neighbour's router).
SEE BELOW POST
* Why did I get a "disk is full" error message every time I tried to install my keyboard's new Intellitype software? Why did Vista refuse to uninstall the XP-version of Intellitype?
Mmm... Intellitype. More pain.
* I knew that Apple had failed to make iTunes Vista-ready, so I didn't even try.
Ironically, if he just installed it, he would have found it works quite well as it is, if you don't have purchases, AFAIK. I found Quicktime and iTunes to be generally OK.
(AMD64 2ghz singlecore 1gb ram nvidia 6600GT 128mb ram)
* But why did Microsoft's successor of Activesync, called Windows Mobile Device Center, refuse to hook up Outlook to my trusty old Pocket PC?
Ah, Microsoft-based PDAs. More pain.
You will probably enjoy Vista, but there's little reason to do it the hard way.
Best to do Vista with a new computer (that's why the hardware manufacturers love Vista coming 'round to push PC sales and upgrades, mostly brand new PC sales).
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"If you don't know what you're doing, call a professional."
That's the point. This guy is a windows enthusiast and had trouble upgrading. The average user will have even more difficulty upgrading. Should consumers need a 'professional' to upgrade their home systems to vista?
Should consumers need a 'professional' to upgrade their home systems to vista?
Yes, that's the idea.
Skat,
That's the point. This guy is a windows enthusiast and had trouble upgrading. The average user will have even more difficulty upgrading. Should consumers need a 'professional' to upgrade their home systems to vista?
They shouldn't. But the word on the street will be to push a new computer rather than upgrade. Major retailers in several countries, I've seen, it's all "BUY NOW - BRAND NEW COMPUTER VISTA READY - THE WOW IS HERE"....!!