Here we go..

GL fella, wish Id never bothered... its not the most stable thing in the world. But it looks pretty.

Cheers
Tongy

I made the plunge on my media center a month ago.  Tis a superb operating system.  Only quib was that I need to upgrade my graphics card and soundcard only because they were onboard and not supported.  Other than that, it really is the biz!

Well it booted, lovely jubbly.

Works great, its a bit of a resource whore but on a 1.83ghz computer I expect it to be, looks lovely though, and works nice and quick only reason I know its a resource whore is because the cpu gadget is showing 70% cpu usage pretty much constantly

been using it for a while. 64bit.
ROck solid Stable :-D

Not that Ive got, or am going to......but whats vista like for being copied/cracked etc. Just everyone I know really on XP, its a cracked copy. Just wondered if its as easy with vista as it was with xp!?

I wont be saying asta la vista to XP for a good while!

Quote from: chrisdickoNot that Ive got, or am going to......but whats vista like for being copied/cracked etc. Just everyone I know really on XP, its a cracked copy. Just wondered if its as easy with vista as it was with xp!?

There is a nice Dell OEM Ultimate Vista floating around that i will hopefully be installing in the near future if I can work out how to do a dual boot with my current XP install.

Ill post if I ever get round to completing the install

Quote from: sexytw

Quote from: chrisdickoNot that Ive got, or am going to......but whats vista like for being copied/cracked etc. Just everyone I know really on XP, its a cracked copy. Just wondered if its as easy with vista as it was with xp!?

There is a nice Dell OEM Ultimate Vista floating around that i will hopefully be installing in the near future if I can work out how to do a dual boot with my current XP install.

Ill post if I ever get round to completing the install

*cough* Ive had no problem with said dvd. 64bit as well!

I am still pondering if I should get it or not before I move to NZ along with the hardrive and graphics card I plan to get

Cam pre installed on my new Medion. I dont mind it - its pretty and all and once Im familiar with it Im sure Ill be as quick on it as I am on XP. However at the minute I still feel like Im on XP with a new GUI over the top and I always feel like I want to hit close somewhere to take me back to my old desktop.  Ill get used it.

I love the media center by the way and the remote I got with it - but it crashes loads when accessing folders with loads of divx files and such.

I have Vista Business on this specced machine:

Core2Duo E6300
Corsair XMS2 2gb PC5300 DDR2
Asrock 4core board (getting a quad core soon)
2 x 250gb seagate (mirrored)
Asus nvidia 7300GT 128mb overclock pcie gfx card
DVDRW

Not a bad specced machine, but not the fastest... and it groans, using almost 800mb idling with just AV (and all its own services) running.

It looks lovely, and alot of the features it has are pretty good but I have had major problems with stability, having to hold the old power button for 4-5 seconds more than a few times.

I know its not the hardware causing the instability as I reloaded XP onto it and ran it for a couple of weeks without any lockups and without any crashes. I might try Business 64bit though to see if thats any better.

Also, anyone else had the... "is the gfx card working?" moment on boot of Vista....when the screen goes blank for ages?

Im still advising my customers to run XP for a bit.

See on my machine, its using like 800mb ram... but like Ive 1.5gb im not fussed lol

Also cpu usage is always around the 70% mark if not higher, and thats a constant thing.

But... and heres the crux of it. Takes like 10 seconds to boot into a usable session of windows, Opening IE7 is instantaneous, opening xchat, my ftp client, and other programs also instantaneous.

I can browse C, and its loading the window before I have lifted my finger from the double click.

It may be whoring my resources, but its making damn good use of them!

Got Vista Ultimate installed today, dual booting nicely with my good old XP. Really wasnt difficult, just make a new partition and install it there. Vista handles the boot loader for you.

It seems ok, very pretty. Unfortunately im only running a Semptron 3000 (or a 1700XP cant remember which is in there) and 1Gb of RAM. So it chuggs like anything. Wont even open media center.

Good enough for my to play with though. Plus I didnt have a faff around with activation, serials and any of that mess. Updates just fine too. Very useful.

Has there been a budget release or is there a demo version available? Im tempted to get it but I wanna see how its come on from the beta first.