Windows Vista Ultimate - The Best OS so far
If you read my previous post about the Asus M51SN then you will have noticed my rampage about how people can’t be bothered learning how to use Windows Vista and therefore say crap all about it. However this post will not contain another rampage, rather it will contain the fantastic features included with Windows Vista Ultimate.
The best thing about Windows Vista Ultimate is that people can now use a feature called the ReadyBoost feature. This uses a spare USB key or memory stick in order for more virtual memory, however a word of warning, this is only good if you have a spare USB key and I wouldn’t go to a shop and buy one just for this feature. Buying more RAM is always good but if you have a spare USB key this feature is for you! Even though my laptop (Asus M51SN) has 2GB of RAM, this feature did actually help speed up my system quite a fair bit.
Windows Aero is another good feature, although it does not seem like much, this feature makes your PC look good with minimal performance impact. This can be enabled (must have a supported graphics adapter) or disabled via the cool new and much more logical control panel. The control panel may seem hard to use at first because of it’s new logical design however this is simply solved by using your brain more often and thinking logically. As if these features weren’t good enough for some reason certain applications such as Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) run a lot faster in Windows Vista, this is incredibly weird but also incredibly cool.
If you haven’t used or picked up your local version of Windows Vista Ultimate then you are definitely missing out on some pretty cool stuff. The ultimate edition is recommended even though it costs more as there are no limitations regarding the use of the Operating System (OS). Windows Vista Ultimate receives a 5/5 star rating and is recommended to people that have an open mind, can figure things out for themselves and want to have heaps of fun!
ho ho said
am May 12 2008 @ 11:21 pm
hahahahah
Jordan said
am May 13 2008 @ 8:36 pm
mmm good luck converting everyone into using vista, im sticking with xp and ubuntu thankyou very much
tus said
am May 13 2008 @ 9:33 pm
stupid,why are you promoting crap proprietary OS.Microsoft is a blood sucker.They want money and market share and don’t care about security,stability and usability etc.
After 6 years of development Microsoft able to produce crap called VISTA.
Wesley Chan said
am May 13 2008 @ 9:52 pm
I am promoting this so called ‘crap’ because it is a fantastic OS and people like you ought to try it out some time but instead, you bad mouth it because you purely do not care about the OS. You simply want to ruin Microsoft reputation, well I say go ahead, Microsoft is a big boy and doesn’t even need people like me to say good things about it but I do it anyway for the fun of it.
If Microsoft did not have security, then why has my computer not yet been hacked? Or is it that you are not capable of installing security updates every now again. It has been proven recently that Linux is the most hacked OS, if Vista is not safe, I would sure hope I don’t use Linux…
What are you talking about they do not factor in usability? I can use it, just because you can’t use it does not mean it is unusable. If I can figure it out in a few seconds, I’m sure you can take a few seconds to figure it all out. Like all new things, it takes a while to learn… however perhaps I am wrong since you are unable to find the space bar after every sentence, don’t worry it might take you a while but you will still get there my friend!
doobi said
am May 14 2008 @ 12:32 am
Well I like it
I’m using Home Premium and it just feels slicker and more polished than XP. Apparently it supports voice commands as well.
My name said
am May 14 2008 @ 1:25 am
I think we just found out who Microsoft just paid off! haha Enjoy that bag of money!
Anyone who has used Vista, even Ultimate knows it is crap. You apparently took the bribe.
Another editor losses their connection with the masses!
Good Work.
BK said
am May 14 2008 @ 1:32 am
First of all, Vista 64bit is much, much more stable than the 32bit version. I have Ultimate 32bit at work and it’s just as bad as the anti-Microsoft crusaders want it to be. At home I’m using Home Premium 64bit and it works like a charm. Excellent performance in DX9 and DX10, great looks, nice interface. And - best of all - it’s compatible with the rest of the world, not just with my nerdy friend’s computer in the basement.
No problems with any games whatsoever. Even older titles like Deus Ex, Chrome and others run flawlessly, which is a pleasant surprise.
Jackson said
am May 14 2008 @ 1:41 am
I think most people dont even know why they hate Vista, they just trash it because it is from MS and it is the thing to do.
Most people don’t have big enough brains to think for themselves, so they go along with everyone else, like a programmed zombie, “grrrr Microsoft sucks.” In reality they have no idea what is right and wrong with Vista.
Truth is, Vista is better than XP minus a few things they changed that they should not have, and most of those can be changed back if you just take the time to customize the settings. What can I say, people are stupid followers. Dumping on MS is getting old fast, get over it.
Brian said
am May 14 2008 @ 2:02 am
I don’t get it. I just read your whole article on why Windows Vista Ultimate is the best OS and I see no reason it is. Is most of it missing? Do I have to click on a link and read the rest?
I upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimate. I have a decent processor but not powerful. But my graphics card is good and I have 2GB of RAM. I had a 500GB hard drive so that wasn’t a problem. I ended up removing Vista and going back to XP.
Over the weekend I added a 1TB hard drive so I figured it was time to try Vista again. No better. I tried watching some videos that run fine under XP. It was like watching a slideshow. So again I wiped out Vista and I’m back to XP.
I don’t need some stupid USB boot feature or whatever that thing is. I don’t care about Aero. My graphics card can handle it but I just want my computer to run. Vista isn’t worth the money.
I did leave 500GB of my 1TB hard drive free so I’ll be installing Ubuntu 8.04 on part of that soon. One day I’ll probably have Windows completely gone and just use Linux. As soon as I can do everything I want with Linux I will.
A.B. said
am May 14 2008 @ 2:16 am
Yeah… everyone who uses XP only does so because their puny little brains can’t think logically and handle Windows Vista right?
Give me a break dude.
Vista is garbage and we all know it. XP is Microsoft’s best o/s and always will be since they seem to have forgotten how to make a stable and fast o/s now.
No one in the business sector has upgraded to Vista because they all know it’s just a gimmick. And why would they upgrade to this garbage when they have XP Pro running their servers and desktops without any problems?
Microsoft knows Vista is garbage as well, which is why they are already hard at work making their next operating system, to replace Vista.
FACT = VISTA = CRAP
Jackson said
am May 14 2008 @ 2:26 am
Can anyone name 5 reasons Vista is supposedly such garbage? Do you even know why you hate it? Vista is far from garbage, most IT proffessionals worth their salt admit it has only a few things about it that they don’t like, while having quite a few things under its skin that make it a far better OS than XP.
Please stop regurgitating the Vista sucks cliche, and actually state reasons for wht you believe, other wise you just come off like some typical stupid MS hating know-nothing.
Well I got Home Premiun said
am May 14 2008 @ 3:00 am
And it isn’t more stable than XP, the things crashes like every hour or so. I like the sleek look, but to be honest, Leopard is a lot more sexy and more stable :).
And for some odd reason some of my programs are buggy in Vista, like Illustrator CS2 and Dreamweaver 8. I got 2 gb of ddr2 ram and sometimes it says that I ran out of ram, its crazy! my old XP in my room could do a lot more things a lot more faster and never gave me those messages.
NS said
am May 14 2008 @ 3:08 am
I agree with the whole MS is bad because they dominate a certain niche of the market. So noone bad mouths google and IMO they are much worse! How many programs and computers you buy are infested with their spy/ad crapware?! I agree that the whole MS bashing is ridiculous and getting real old. I run Ultimate X64 on my laptop and Ultimate x64 on my desktop and it works great! The above poster commenting on how big his HD is is a joke. I only have a 160 GB in my desktop (SATA) and it is perfectly fine. Size (as long as it is over 80 GB, because Vista esp. Ultimate takes up a lot of space) has nothing to do with Vista running fine. Speed of memory, of course a decent GPU and CPU. They don’t even mention their gpu, just saying it’s great. Here are my specs and of course on all of my machines I disable anything I can (except system related) to be ALWAYS running. That is a major problem people have is that Vista true does eat up more memory but people running google desktop and other crap software ALL the time defenitely does not help the situation.
Desktop
AMD X2 2.32 Ghz Dual-Core
MSI MB
2 GB Corsair Low-Latency DDR2 6400 Dual Channel
160 GB SATA HDD
nvidia 8600 GS OverClocked w/256 MB DDR3
DVD/CD (non-burners)
HP DVD Writer with LightScribe
MultiMedia reader
n Wireless pci adapter
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Laptop
2 GB DDR2 667 Mhz
AMD Turion x2 Dual Core @ 1.6 Ghz
320 GB SATA HDD (Yeah I know this is double that of my DT)
DVD Burner w/LightScribe
Crappy nvidia 6150 GO GPU and MB
15.4″ Widescreen (1280×800)
HD Audio 95 wh battery
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Just remember to disable programs from ALWAYS running and Starting with Windows and you should be fine!
A.B. said
am May 14 2008 @ 3:38 am
My XP Pro 64 bit destroys any version of Vista.
And IT professionals do NOT like Vista. I would know… I live in New York City and less than 10% of businesses have migrated over to Vista.
It’s garbage. Time to take it out before it makes the house stink.
The truth hurts.
Loonybean said
am May 14 2008 @ 4:46 am
I work in IT, and the main reason the company I work for hasn’t upgraded to Vista yet is that they are only 2 years into their hardware cycle. Most companies upgrade their hardware on a fixed cycle, as the cost of rolling out new hardware in a large company is astronomical, my company spent 5 million pounds sterling on their last upgrade, and that needs to pay for itself, no campany is going to throw money away on something, it has to generate a return in profits, normally from streamlining the procedures in the company.
Personally, I am using Vista Ultimate at home, I’ve got an AMD Athlon X2 4200+ CPU, 3 Gb of pc3200 RAM (yeah yeah, it’s an old machine!), 320 Gb SATA HDD and a Radeon X1950 Pro GPU. I’m having no problems with Vista, it’s as stable as you like, in Vista, if a program crashes, Vista sandboxes the crashed processes and closes the program, rather than let the program take the OS with it, unlike XP, which just dies.
Cast your minds back to when XP launched, there was at least a year and a half of “this sucks, give me ‘98 any day”, and look where XP is now. Nothing’s ever perfect from the off ladies and gentlemen, give it time, give it time…
Landguy1 said
am May 14 2008 @ 5:52 am
This article didn’t have any real facts to back up it’s title, but that doesn’t make the article innacurate(or accurate for the matter). I have 4 pc’s at home running a mix of XP and Vista. On the oldest PC running XP, the machine is slow and and the videos and games run like crap. On the newest pc running XP, things run fine, with the exception of some games that can barely move along. On the 1 Vista(Ultimate) laptop that I have, everything runs great: the internet is faster, the videos stream great, and the games play their best. This was a Vista launch laptop, not some laptop I picked up in the last 3-4 months. The bottom line is that you can NOT take an OLD PC or laptop and upgrade to Vista. Just live with XP on them and goto Vista as you replace your hardware. As far as the usability complaints, i find it laughable. Once you learn the ins and outs of how to do this stuff on Vista, there is no difference. I remember when windows came out and we all complained how hard it was, because it was so much easier with dos to just type in the command. Then I heard the same complaint when windows 98 and ME came out. An then of course, it was 10 times worse when XP came out. Now, people(mostly kids/young people that never used anything other the XP i’m guessing) complain that XP is too good to give up??? Whatever you do, don’t try and learn something new… Just ask your grandfather or parents who got bumped from a good job because they didn’t want to learn how to use a computer because they are a waste of time. The last thing anyone should be saying is that they want to live in the past…
Mike said
am May 14 2008 @ 6:07 am
I am glad to see an article that doesn’t bash Vista. I think that the main problem that people don’t like it is because it is a more demanding OS, and a lot of people are still running with only 1 or 2 gigs of RAM. I am running ultimate (since it launched) with 4 gigs of RAM. My machine is on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (it is mostly used for Media Center and some gaming). I have no problems with it slowing down, I have only had 1 blue screen in approx 15 months. The only program it had running was the installation for Adobe Acrobat, which was a simple fix. I for one am sick of every day, finding another article that bashes Vista and praises XP, with virtually no facts to back it up.
Mike said
am May 14 2008 @ 6:22 am
correction to my previous post. I should have said that the only program it had a problem with was the installation for Adobe Acrobat.
Percy said
am May 14 2008 @ 8:01 am
You forgot one feature. It is slow. Whether you like vista or not does not matter some people enjoy drinking piss. Vista is to slow to be considered the best and does not have the driver support. Please don’t use the argument if you computer is powerful enough it will run vista fine because that same computer with xp would be faster.
Wesley Chan said
am May 14 2008 @ 8:07 am
Ok… regardless if XP would run faster, I have run counter-strike source at its max settings and get about 70-80 FPS (which is awesome for a laptop on vista). The human eye can only see 60-70 FPS so how would it make a difference if I ran Windows XP? No one would not notice any difference! (unless of course your not human…)
Therefore what is the point of this so called ‘faster’ OS? If it does not benefit us and I say as long as you update to SP1 (Service Pack One), VISTA is much faster than XP.
Fitz said
am May 14 2008 @ 9:43 am
Theres no reason to switch to Vista at the moment, XP can even copy the eye-candy…I dual boot XP and Vista, and I prefer xp, just cause its not as annoying and Vista has more compatibility issues. Why would you spend all the money on Vista when XP works just fine? (My Vista was free through school btw) Vista will probably take over eventually, but until then, XP all ze way.
mavro said
am May 14 2008 @ 11:20 am
this is good but linux is the best
YagerX said
am May 14 2008 @ 1:55 pm
I agree, i dont understand why people badmouth vista.
I manage to run all my programs without a hitch in vista, they barely every crash and when they do, its when i did something stupid. Also, at the person with the 1Tb harddrive, harddrive may improve an os’s performance, but the increase is insignificant if you compare it to a ram increase or a processor upgrade.
Theo said
am May 15 2008 @ 8:29 pm
The main problem with vista was right at the start when it was just released, this was because no software had support for it, and when the user tried to install something it would come up will 10msg asking are you sure you want to run this program and so on. That is the main reason why a lot of business didn’t bother to upgrade, the tools they used wouldn’t run on vista due to the programs having a lack of support as it wasn’t being used by a lot of people. Now that service pack 1 is out a few more people will start to use it by service pack 2 it will probably end up like xp (number of user that use xp) unless Microsoft release another OS by that time.
John M. said
am May 16 2008 @ 10:06 pm
Vista works fine for me. Though I dont care which I use so long as im using one of them.
douglas said
am July 2 2008 @ 12:19 pm
vista is not slow if ur pc sucks it runs slow my pc comes on in 60 seconds believe it and is a single core amd sempron with a ati x300/1150 256 with hyper memory with two 1 gigs 667 drr2 ram and am running vista ultimate 32bit not a bug its perfect face it anyone that say vista sucks they pc suck to run it i love vista direct x 10 rules my games look so real