February 14, 2007
Stop asking
For whatever reason (probably because I'm the biggest nerd around), lots of people have been asking me if they should upgrade to Windows Vista.
Normally I size up the person and how they use a computer, but always the answer is no.
Here's a good checklist for those of you who might still consider asking me:
1. Do want less compatibility?
2. Do you want slower performance?
3. Does transparency make you ignore 1 and 2?
4. Are you a security nut?
5. If yes to 4, when was the last time your computer was hacked?
6. Do you have a bunch of time to kill?
7. If you saw something that wasn't broken, would you try to fix it?
I've tried Windows Vistanow for several months and have been completely underwhelmed. While if you do get it for free, I do encourage you to check it out, I would say spending any more than a dollar for the operating system and upgrading your existing system would be a waste of those 4 quarters.
In my experience with Windows Vista, I have not found anything in Vista that I haven't been able to do in XP. In fact, XP does everything its users and applications expect and want it to. So why switch?
When it comes to it, think about what most people do on their computers now:
1. Turn on / wake up computer
2. read email
3. check weather
4. read blogs / news sites
5. stalk people on myspace / facebook
6. watch stupid clip on youtube
7. go get lunch
8. start working
9. Work on Excel / Word document
10. goto #2
In none of these actions are you going to get your $379 dollars worth for Windows Vista.
Oh but what about hard core users?
Gamers:
Less compatibilty and slower performance for DirectX games
Developers:
Visual Studio still has bugs to work out in Windows Vista.
Instead of upgrading to Vista, in the past two weeks I have become a raving Apple fan. After having used PC's for over 20 years of my life. I have finally made the switch. And no, it isn't because of those stupid ads on TV. I hate those stupid ads. It's because now with Macs on an Intel Platform, you can do everything you love to do in OSX(see above) and stuff that you HAVE to do on a PC, you can either dual boot into XP or you can run a virtualization program like Parallells and do your dirty deeds. Plus, the Mac Book Pro is probably the best laptop I have ever owned: compaq < dell < (sony = ibm) < Apple.
Oh and of course a little video showing you Vista Speech Recognition:
Posted by Bryant at February 14, 2007 09:12 PM