Windows Vista Capable = Waste of time and money

Here, from a page about Windows Vista at Dell’s site, is a shockingly honest explanation of just how meaningless the “Windows Vista Capable” sticker on some PCs is:





Yes, folks, that does say that a PC that meets the conditions to be marketed as Windows Vista Capable may be a swell Vista system…as long as you don’t try to run any programs on it. (”Great for…Booting the Operating System, without running any applications or games.”)(Did I mention that my new PC has a “Windows Vista Capable” sticker but not the at least somewhat more informative “Windows Vista Premium Ready” one on it? It’s got a dual-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and adequate integrated graphics, so I am indeed running applications, thank goodness. But it’s still somewhat unclear how satisfactory a Vista machine it’ll be, long term. More on that in upcoming posts…)[PC World's Techlog]

I just got a Toshiba Laptop: Dual Core, 128 MB ATI Graphics (200M), 512 MB memory (PC2 4200), 80 Gig Hard Drive, 15.4″ Screen

Sounds like a great machine, but it came with Vista. The Piece of Shit can’t even install a network printer… not enough memory. This is after unistalling all the crap that came on it (MacAfee “Security Suite” that kept asking me to upgrade). I’ve been able to run multiple programs at one… and even got Lego Star Wars II running on it (had to install a NoCD so I wouldn’t F*** up the Optical Drive, but the amount of stupid pop ups (yes I wanted to create a new folder… and then rename the SOB) and annoyances like mentioned is making me debate wiping the laptop and using my very last XP license on it (I had bought 5 XP Pro licenses a long time ago). The only thing delaying me is the fact that they finnally fixed hibernate and booting. So I’ve either got to upgrade the memory or roll back. Vista is officially crap in my book. I will not waste my money for ANY of my other machines.

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