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Software : Windows Vista, Home Premium Edition with Service Pack 1 (PC) .
Rating: 
- Great for gaming on macs if using bootcamp
This item is a great product, very quick installation, works great for mac gaming, just loaded fallout 3 and cod 5 onto it and works a treat on ultra graphics settigns (new 2.53Ghz, 4gb ram, Nvidia 9600m gt 512mb graphics card Macbook pro). simple to use and great for school work.
BUY IT!!!!
Rating:
- worth it ONLY if your pc will handle it- check your hardware
I read all the reviews over and over, and decided to invest.
Vista upgrade advisor told me my machine would handle the upgrade with ease. It was only 6 months old at the time of the upgrade, but I built it from scratch with hand-picked components.
I upgraded my xp HDD to vista and it worked fine apart from being painfully slow. I upgraded the BIOS to latest version and the ATI chipset drivers to the latest too and everything seemed fine.
Then it kept freezing up on me, sometimes 15 mins into a program, then sometimes 1 hour into a program/game application.
I got some advice from various forums. The Vista 90 day free support was laughable, I practically diagnosed my own fault and the operator didnt have an explanation. Useless. Im glad I didnt have to pay the £47 +VAT fee for help!
It turns out my motherboard MR2R32-MVP by ASUS isnt apparently Vista compatible! I returned the disc as Vista support suggested a missing driver. The second time I called they even tried to tell my version wasnt even an upgrade version but a FULL version. I only hope no one else has to deal with them.
As an O.S its very nice, glossy and slick. It consumed 29% of my 4GB of RAM at any one time so its thirsty! a good graphics card will see you right too.
overall I gave it 3 stars as its a nice O.S. but there is still some problems and bugs, plus MS help are useless.
Check and recheck your hardware compatibility before you upgrade, or dont buy ASUS motherboards ;-) I ended up re-installing XP on a fresh HD and retreated gracefully.
I might consider full install on a fresh HD in the future, but for me an upgrade is too risky. Even with new, hand picked high end components.
Rating: - A worthy upgrade from the old worn out and boring XP
I don't understand all the negativity. I upgraded my XP to Vista and could not be more satisfied. It includes new slick design with improved graphics, software and performance. It does not hang up like XP constantly did, and does not crash for long periods of time like xp.
The negativity of Vista comes from gamers and people who just don't like change or understand Vista.
Well worth the money and would definetly recommend.
Rating:
- Not a worthwhile upgrade
A few months ago I bought a new laptop which came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I've now had the opportunity to compare Vista to my desktop PC's XP installation. In summary Vista doesn't make a compelling upgrade. Memory usage is considerably higher, the default User Account Control setup is so overbearing that I disabled it completely and from the perspective of the end user the new features seem to be mostly related to visual tarting up and transparency effects. These new features add nothing much to productivity. The frequency and volume of critical security patches to apply seems to continue as with XP. There are some useful features but most of these can be added to XP by using existing free applications. Not a worthwhile upgrade.
Rating:
- A few irritations but more stable than XP SP 3 so worth trying
I have been using XP for more years than I can remember and I recently girded my loins and purchased a laptop with Vista Home Premium and I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised. My lower spec dual core laptop with Vista seems to have better performance than my much higher spec quad core desktop running XP. I would also say that Vista is more robust and I have not yet had a program stop responding, which is a common occurrence with XP. I find Vista's need to confirm your permission to do virtually anything on the machine a bit of a pain but in general , transferring across to using Vista from XP is painless. The only problem I have had is with networking Vista to XP and I still have to resolve this issue.
I purchased my Laptop with Vista installed so I have no experience of the upgrading process from XP so in general I would say if you want to have a Vista experience then purchase the Premium Home edition and try it out on a secondary machine, you may well be pleasantly surprised. A slightly cautious Recommendation.
- Great for gaming on macs if using bootcampThis item is a great product, very quick installation, works great for mac gaming, just loaded fallout 3 and cod 5 onto it and works a treat on ultra graphics settigns (new 2.53Ghz, 4gb ram, Nvidia 9600m gt 512mb graphics card Macbook pro). simple to use and great for school work.
BUY IT!!!!
Rating:
- worth it ONLY if your pc will handle it- check your hardwareI read all the reviews over and over, and decided to invest.
Vista upgrade advisor told me my machine would handle the upgrade with ease. It was only 6 months old at the time of the upgrade, but I built it from scratch with hand-picked components.
I upgraded my xp HDD to vista and it worked fine apart from being painfully slow. I upgraded the BIOS to latest version and the ATI chipset drivers to the latest too and everything seemed fine.
Then it kept freezing up on me, sometimes 15 mins into a program, then sometimes 1 hour into a program/game application.
I got some advice from various forums. The Vista 90 day free support was laughable, I practically diagnosed my own fault and the operator didnt have an explanation. Useless. Im glad I didnt have to pay the £47 +VAT fee for help!
It turns out my motherboard MR2R32-MVP by ASUS isnt apparently Vista compatible! I returned the disc as Vista support suggested a missing driver. The second time I called they even tried to tell my version wasnt even an upgrade version but a FULL version. I only hope no one else has to deal with them.
As an O.S its very nice, glossy and slick. It consumed 29% of my 4GB of RAM at any one time so its thirsty! a good graphics card will see you right too.
overall I gave it 3 stars as its a nice O.S. but there is still some problems and bugs, plus MS help are useless.
Check and recheck your hardware compatibility before you upgrade, or dont buy ASUS motherboards ;-) I ended up re-installing XP on a fresh HD and retreated gracefully.
I might consider full install on a fresh HD in the future, but for me an upgrade is too risky. Even with new, hand picked high end components.
Rating:
- A worthy upgrade from the old worn out and boring XP I don't understand all the negativity. I upgraded my XP to Vista and could not be more satisfied. It includes new slick design with improved graphics, software and performance. It does not hang up like XP constantly did, and does not crash for long periods of time like xp.
The negativity of Vista comes from gamers and people who just don't like change or understand Vista.
Well worth the money and would definetly recommend.
Rating:
- Not a worthwhile upgradeA few months ago I bought a new laptop which came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I've now had the opportunity to compare Vista to my desktop PC's XP installation. In summary Vista doesn't make a compelling upgrade. Memory usage is considerably higher, the default User Account Control setup is so overbearing that I disabled it completely and from the perspective of the end user the new features seem to be mostly related to visual tarting up and transparency effects. These new features add nothing much to productivity. The frequency and volume of critical security patches to apply seems to continue as with XP. There are some useful features but most of these can be added to XP by using existing free applications. Not a worthwhile upgrade.
Rating:
- A few irritations but more stable than XP SP 3 so worth tryingI have been using XP for more years than I can remember and I recently girded my loins and purchased a laptop with Vista Home Premium and I have to say I have been pleasantly surprised. My lower spec dual core laptop with Vista seems to have better performance than my much higher spec quad core desktop running XP. I would also say that Vista is more robust and I have not yet had a program stop responding, which is a common occurrence with XP. I find Vista's need to confirm your permission to do virtually anything on the machine a bit of a pain but in general , transferring across to using Vista from XP is painless. The only problem I have had is with networking Vista to XP and I still have to resolve this issue.
I purchased my Laptop with Vista installed so I have no experience of the upgrading process from XP so in general I would say if you want to have a Vista experience then purchase the Premium Home edition and try it out on a secondary machine, you may well be pleasantly surprised. A slightly cautious Recommendation.
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