Luciana  | 2008-04-04
Hello Vista, bye bye battery power!
I just switched to Vista a few days ago and I'm already disappointed. At first I was really impressed with Vista's new user interface: nice colors, round corners, transparency. But once I unplugged my laptop... Surprise! The battery life is 50% down compared with Windows XP. Even with all additional hardware disabled (Bluetooh, WLAN, mouse etc) and the brightness at minimum, I still see poor results. So I'm seriously thinking of downgrading, after all, if battery power wouldn't be important I would use a desktop :-)

Cristoph  | 2007-06-25
not an XP replacement yet
Vista comes packed with a series of "new" cool stuff as well as with a series of flaws. The cool stuff is indeed borrowed from OS X, while the flaws are Microsoft native. When I first tried out Vista RC1, it was clear that in that stage, the OS wasn't even nearly an every day reliable operating systems, as there were many annoying bugs. The final release has indeed fixed many of those bugs, but is far from being perfect. And when I say it's not Vista's time yet, it is mainly due to two reasons. Firstly, It still needs some polishing/ OPTIMIZING; and secondly, you can't expect everybody to upgrade their computers to say, about 1GB of RAM just in order to run the system properly. But I assume that time will solve this issue one way or another.