ReVeLaTeD
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join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA
| In my opinion....
What Vista Home Premium Does Right
•Live search inside folders is killer. MUCH improved over XP's default indexed search companion.
•The OS *does* look nice.
•Troubleshooting tools work fairly well (like being able to get a visual layout of your LAN, error reporting and tracking of responses, etc) for the laymen user.
•Burning CDs is so simple a caveman could do it.
•Integrated Media Center capabilities means I don't need to have a separate dedicated OS.
•Seems to be designed to support wireless networks which is good...works well with them most of the time.
•No need to go to a separate website for Windows updates.
•Programs and Updates (formerly Add/Remove Programs) is a lot more intuitive.
What Vista Home Premium Does NOT Do Right
•File transfers. Ugh. Even from drive-to-drive on the same computer for some reason.
•Doesn't support Remote Desktop; you're forced to find a third party custom solution to enable it (meaning it exists in the OS, they just disabled it)
•Codec support is laughable. There are WMV files that won't play in Windows Media Player - the audio plays but not the video, and the player claims the codec is installed.
•Some drivers take ages to install where on XP it takes a matter of seconds.
•Resource hog.
•Time to desktop is absolutely insane. Sometimes in excess of a minute. The actual boot time (from power on to login screen) is zip fast, but after entering the login credentials, it takes way too long to get to a usable desktop.
•Randomly "forgets" your wireless information if you're using MAC security. It'll come back, but only after a long period of frustration.
•Because of aforementioned network and file transfer issues, frequently has problems backing itself up over a LAN. |
