Upgrading to Vista SP1. Is it worth it???

I had been waiting until SP1 is little 'used' and tested before I go ahead and install it. But just wanted to ask you guys who have gone ahead with the install, is there anything significantly different in SP1 from basic Vista?? I read there is no eye level change in UI, but there is some performance diffence. As such there is no reason for me not to install it, but what do you say???

Which areas can I expect to see a performance increase in??? Is there any area where performance might decrease?? Any software incompatibility so far???

Also, what tests should I run and things to note down so I could compare the before and after results of installing SP1??
Thanks

 

I've encountered no incompatibilities as yet, and the boot time and file transfer speeds have improved a little bit. Some say gaming is taking a minor hit with SP1, but this has been an ongoing issue with Vista in general......

 

its worth it. waiting for sp2

 

So what are the things to do before I run the SP1 install?? Anything to note down, any benchmarks or tests to run so I could have some comparable results???

 

Some of the gains can be huge. For example, the speed of copying files over a gigabit network between two HP DV9500T's is more than 3x faster in some situations. USB disks can run a lot faster as well. For me, the upgrade was way worth it. I have 3 DV9500T's, and they all run fine after the upgrade.

Joe

 

That sound weird to me. SP1 is great and hardly any SPs that I have seen have any Graphical changes. They are more about optimising what you have than introducing new bunch of features. That work is done when a new OS is released. At the same time I must mention that XP SP3 has some GUI changes, which is therefore an exception to my theory but that is probably because MS virtually bids goodbye to XP with this SP release.

Upgrade to SP1. It is always good to be updated. Have had no problems yet. Installed on the day it was released after downloading the Standalone package overnight on my perennially slow Internet connection. Goes to show I along with others was excited about the release.

@ Joe- What do you do with 3 dv9500 s

 

One for me, One for my wife who works with me, and one emergency spare in case one needs to get sent in for repair

 

There is one graphical change with SP1, the nogui boot screen. Its how you can tell the system has SP1 at startup

 

So what is different about no-gui startup screen with SP1???

 

try it yourself and find out

go to msconfig and tick no GUI boot

 

vista sucks end of story