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re: Windows Vista upgrade Monday, December 25, 2006 at 8:40 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7132 messages posted) For most average folks, IMO the best way to get Vista is preinstalled on a new computer. It's true that Vista's best features blossom only on quality hardware, so if you are shopping in the midrange (say $750USD to about $1300 for a desktop) be sure to wait the month or so for Vista. If your budget allows a budget system, buy it between now and Vista's launch to take advantage of the need for the retail channel to flush out XP-loaded inventory by price-cutting. Many major manufacturers are supplying upgrade-to-Vista coupons you redeem after the Jan. 30th launch, so that gives you the option to install Vista at a later time if desired. If the budget system only offers an upgrade to Vista Home Basic, chances are that the computer does not have the horsepower needed to get the neat new graphics, putting aside the fact that Vista Home Basic does not include the Aero graphics anyway. You have to have Vista Home Premium or better to get the Aero graphics. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Vista upgrade Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 7:43 am Posted by KMI (242 messages posted) Hi Dan Sarandrea, Thank you for your reply. I plan to buy a brand new upmarket PC. And in very simple language please will you tell me if it would be a good idea to go for Vista and what are the advantages over WinXP. And are there any unforseen problems I could run into with Vista please? Thanks a lot as I really would appreciate the help. On Monday, December 25, 2006 at 8:40 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >For most average folks, IMO the best way to get Vista is preinstalled on a new computer. > >It's true that Vista's best features blossom only on quality hardware, so if you >are shopping in the midrange (say $750USD to about $1300 for a desktop) be sure to >wait the month or so for Vista. > >If your budget allows a budget system, buy it between now and Vista's launch to take >advantage of the need for the retail channel to flush out XP-loaded inventory by >price-cutting. Many major manufacturers are supplying upgrade-to-Vista coupons you >redeem after the Jan. 30th launch, so that gives you the option to install Vista >at a later time if desired. If the budget system only offers an upgrade to Vista >Home Basic, chances are that the computer does not have the horsepower needed to >get the neat new graphics, putting aside the fact that Vista Home Basic does not >include the Aero graphics anyway. You have to have Vista Home Premium or better >to get the Aero graphics. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Vista upgrade Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 8:02 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (7132 messages posted) If buying an upmarket PC, I would recommend waiting the month or so then buy one with Vista preinstalled. As to Vista's relative goodness compared to other options (XP, Mac, Linux etc), just Google----there is absolutely no shortage of coverage and opinion on the topic. And if I could tell you about unforeseen problems, they wouldn't be unforeseen, would they? ;-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Vista upgrade Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 9:03 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I thought Vista was fine for everyday use like Web, email, word processor, but really sucks for multimedia work. If I had just one Computer, I wouldn't consider it. I think it will be a more secure Web surfer though. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Vista upgrade Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 3:16 pm Posted by KMI (242 messages posted) Hi Steve, thanks for information on Vista. If i buy it I will have only the one computer which I like to use for PhotoShop and Microsoft Word and publisher. Will it be ok for Photoshop do you think. Or what do you mean by multimedia work? Sorry I'm so ignorant. Again thanks a lot and God bless you On Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 9:03 am, Steve wrote: >I thought Vista was fine for everyday use like Web, email, word processor, but really >sucks for multimedia work. If I had just one Computer, I wouldn't consider it. I >think it will be a more secure Web surfer though. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Vista upgrade Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 3:20 pm Posted by KMI (242 messages posted) Hi Dan Sarandrea, again thanks I like your sense of humour, it made me smile! Yes I will try Googling it, it is amazing how many times I forget the simplest option but I'll enjoy trying it now. Again thanks a lot and God Bless you On Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 8:02 am, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >If buying an upmarket PC, I would recommend waiting the month or so then buy one >with Vista preinstalled. > >As to Vista's relative goodness compared to other options (XP, Mac, Linux etc), just >Google----there is absolutely no shortage of coverage and opinion on the topic. > >And if I could tell you about unforeseen problems, they wouldn't be unforeseen, would >they? ;-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows Vista upgrade Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at 9:01 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) What I meant for multimedia, is working with Video, and Audio. For example taking a music CD, or DVD and converting to other formats. Working with Photoshop should be fine. I have Photoshop, but didn't try installing it on Vista, I'm sure Adobe will get it patched, and working if it has some problems. I couldn't get any Four of my regularly used Video Editing software, or my favorite CD ripper to run on Vista. Burning DVD's, and CD's caused more crashes then I ever even got on my old Windows ME PC. I didn't see any real Killer application, or gotta have feature on Vista that would cause me to upgrade a XP Computer to Vista. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum