What a pleasant surprise.  Im really liking Vista, its default theme is way better than XPs.

Having used this Home Edition which is the most basic, I cant see any reason why 90% of people would need any of the other versions.

Most reports are saying its not worth the money just to upgrade to home basic from XP.

hmmm, might have to bung in my spair HD and install it on that.... see how it gors before I dump XP

Quote from: SeriousMost reports are saying its not worth the money just to upgrade to home basic from XP.

No its not becuase there are no features that seperate the two.  There is little advantage of Home Basic over XP.

Quote from: WalrusbonzoHaving used this Home Edition which is the most basic, I cant see any reason why 90% of people would need any of the other versions.

Strange I would have said eventually 90% would need Home Premium over basic. Home Premium gives you Media Center support built in, as well as HDTV compatability, DVD authoring software and better hardware support.

Ive spent today ripping Vista Business onto some laptops for a customer.  5 a week for 3 weeks is the plan.  Dont like it, they where actually quite nippy little things (HP NC6220s).  They arent anything like as responsive, though they do boot up faster.  

Ill wait until XP is no longer supported, THEN ill upgrade.

The benefits to the guy who wants these doing as minimal, but he wants new and shiny.  

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Quote from: SeriousMost reports are saying its not worth the money just to upgrade to home basic from XP.

No its not becuase there are no features that seperate the two.  There is little advantage of Home Basic over XP.

You say no and then you dont contradict me at all. All I said was it wasnt worth it, I didnt give any reason. :/

Quote from: BeakerIve spent today ripping Vista Business onto some laptops for a customer. 5 a week for 3 weeks is the plan. Dont like it, they where actually quite nippy little things (HP NC6220s). They arent anything like as responsive, though they do boot up faster.

Ill wait until XP is no longer supported, THEN ill upgrade.

The benefits to the guy who wants these doing as minimal, but he wants new and shiny.

As I have posted elsewhere a 1.6 mobile Celeron with 512mb ram will just about get through basic office apps. With a rating of 1 on M$ scale its probably not going to be able to show a DVD without dropping frames.

Hi-res is going to need something else to run adequately on Vista

Quote from: BeakerIve spent today ripping Vista Business onto some laptops for a customer.  5 a week for 3 weeks is the plan.  Dont like it, they where actually quite nippy little things (HP NC6220s).  They arent anything like as responsive, though they do boot up faster.  

Ill wait until XP is no longer supported, THEN ill upgrade.

The benefits to the guy who wants these doing as minimal, but he wants new and shiny.  

Havent looked at the tech behind it but Ive a feeling itll be based on XPs 30second rule.

If it aint up after 30 seconds, re-attempt on login. Sucks for GPOs as some will fail to load during boot, meaning the machine will be vulnerable at the login screen, and will take longer to login.

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Quote from: SeriousMost reports are saying its not worth the money just to upgrade to home basic from XP.

No its not becuase there are no features that seperate the two.  There is little advantage of Home Basic over XP.

You say no and then you dont contradict me at all. All I said was it wasnt worth it, I didnt give any reason. :/

"No its not (worth upgrading from home basic)", as in Im nodding my head agreeing with your post, no its not, carry on sentance......

 

jkh

I am not far off getting it, SLI needs to be sorted, and some other stuff, but the interface is cool, not sure which edition I would use though coming from an xp x64 pro

Home Premium will be suitable 9/10 people.

Dont even bother with basic.

i just tweaked up my Vista install ive got for testing, rebooted, and its corrupted the entire drive.  The partitions are readable, you can get a file list, but every single file opens as garbage.  I just booted back to the XP install, and it refuses to boot.  It just sits there on the sliding blue bar for about 10 minutes, then turns itself off.  Bloody thing was running beautifully until i put vista on it.  

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