Windows Vista Ultimate

[compilerbitch]

First impressions:

Utter pile of crap.

Avoid.

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist several hours to consistently fail to even be able to download a file. Yes, you heard it. I've spent several hours attempting to download, er, a file. I'll say one thing for it: it's secure. But then, leaving my machine turned off is secure, too, and equivalently functional.

Buy. A. Mac. Instead.

Really.

Comments

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

The ads don't show the Windows guy keeling over every few seconds with grand-mal seizures. I thought Apple were being cruel until I actually attempted to *use* Vista. Now I realise they were actually being quite kind.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

You have had a completely different experience from mine. I use an Intel Core 2 Duo-based macbook for work and an Intel Core 2 Duo-based PC running Vista Ultimate for home/photoshop/photoed and they're both lush and they're equally usable from my POV. The day job is fiddling under the bonnet of linux and it's a joy to be able just to turn on and use the machines I'm not using for development.

Stability of both machines is about the same - no BSODs (or mac equivalent) and they're both very fast.

I wonder why you've had these problems? I've not found the security stuff getting in the way on vista at all - I can SSH, I can download files, I can use VPN. Same with the Mac.

Apple might be about to up the ante with 10.5 of course, but I can't put a cigarette paper between the two in terms of which I prefer to use at the moment.

[fanf]

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