scott wrote:
> Of course some people have different experiences, but I've been running 
> Vista for a while now as my main work machine (and at home) and have 
> never had any stability issues.

Same here. There's a couple of annoyances. I like the Vista media center 
less. If I do a chkdsk during boot (which I do before making a ghost 
backup), sometimes some programs won't start, as if there's some system 
library or service they're depending on that didn't get initialized until I 
reboot again.  Other than that, no problems here.  Hard to judge the speed 
since I upgraded the processor and drives as well.

> Actually the new GUI uses your 3D card to draw the graphics, under XP 
> your 3D card sat idle while the CPU did all the graphics...  BTW you can 
> always turn it off if you don't like it.

I like the new GUI. It has benefits besides just the glass borders. The 
drawing all happens in the background and gets composited, so it's real easy 
for the system to give live thumbnails of a program's window and stuff like 
that.

It does thrash a bit more than XP did with the same amount of RAM, but not 
so much as I find it a PITA. Just lots of disk activity when you switch 
between big programs. I think it manages to keep a much better track of what 
parts of the working set need to be swapped in first.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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