Should I go ahead w/ my vista home premium upgrade or stay with xp home?

I got my Z61t about a year ago. Right around the upgrade period. I have XP home now, and have the upgrade disc for vista. After people have used vista for a while now, how do you feel about it? Should I go for it or stick with what I got? Thanks.

 

Stick with XP until they fix all the crap in Vista or until they release the official RC1.

 

If you want to get some Vista troubleshooting, fiddling, and optimizing experience.....go for it.....especially if you have a lot of spare time.

(that was 35% tongue in cheek)

But, if you do any gaming, stay with XP.

Or, await SP1 for Vista then try it.

Alacrity

 

stick with xp. or at the very least, image your hard drive before installing vista so you can go back to xp if (when) you find out vista blows. maybe vista will get better with SP1, but as they say- you can't polish a turd.

 

stick with XP for the next 2 years

 

I far prefer vista. I would never go back to XP now.

In my experience, the problems with vista are vastly overstated. The only problem I can think of that I've had is that Vista has dropped support for networking over firewire, but this is really a minor quibble for me. IMHO, Vista is a more user-friendly, complete OS than any previous version of windows.

I'm not doubting that some other people have had a poor experience with Vista, but as far as I can tell this has much more to do with vendors not providing adequate drivers, not problems with the operating system itself.

2 of the major complaints about Vista can easily be resolved within a few minutes: I have turned off hard drive indexing (since I don't use the search function) as well as disabled User Account Control (UAC).

I have 2 Lenovo x-series computers and a Lenovo V100 all running Vista and no problems here.

 

You already have the upgrade disk, so you don't have to pay a penny for it. (right?).

At first I kind of hated Vista. Seemed like it's sole purpose in life was just to make me re-learn how to do things that I already knew how to do perfectly well in XP, and it was a resource pig.

But now I kind of like it better, though it's still slower for me. I'm glad to have started learning it sooner than later, since it will probably be around for a while. I think it deserved getting blasted some, but people are overlooking some decent features. Microsoft may be arrogant, but they aren't complete idiots (though their logic escapes me somtimes). I'm looking forward to SP1.

If it isn't free, then skip it for now IMO.

I like the advice from 000111. Image your hard drive first, so you can easily go back to XP if you want, and then give Vista a try.

 

I think Vista is terrific and would never want to go back to XP. As far as it's infrastructure is concerned it's much more solid OS. I may reboot my desktop once a month. I've had one memory problem where my disk became corrupted and as soon as I replaced the memory, I recovered the system disk with Complete PC Backup (Business and Ultimate). You'll read here about the large number of program from other Venders? Vista has all of that built in.

 

I am staying with XP until well after SP3.

 

if you dont have anything to lose, i would go ahead and do the upgrade...make sure you have ATLEAST 2gb of ram first though....using vista with 1gb of ram is like pulling teeth.