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Pierre Szwarc
Test machine is home-built. MSI KT6-Delta motherboard, 1GB (2x512) PC2700
SDRAM, MSI GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128MB RAM. Primary disk has one
1GB primary partition (boot) and four 30GB logical partitions. XP installed
on 1st logical partition (D, Vista on 2nd one(E.
Beta 2 installs much faster than 5308 (under one hour instead of over 2
hours). It finds the SATA disk without any problem, but I don't know if it's
native or it got the driver from XP when I started the install.
The numlock state is sticky under the login screen, which is a good thing
for someone using the French keyboard (which I do). I hope this remains the
case by the time RTM rolls out.
Explorer no longer uses up 100% CPU and is now reasonably responsive.
However, the standard menus have disappeared and I can find no way to invoke
them.
The Windows sidebar no longer has auto-hide ablility, and this is a bad
thing if you don't have a 20" or bigger hi-res monitor. Especially as the
"gadgets" don't get transparent when the cursor leaves the sidebar.
Networking works a lot better. The MCE component detected the multimedia
server on my Sony VAIO without any problem (in fact, it surprised me <g>). I
can use Remote Desktop from the VAIO (under XP), which wasn't possible with
5308. Glass doesn't operate with RD; with a 100Mbps LAN connection, it
should be possible to activate it.
More later on.
SDRAM, MSI GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128MB RAM. Primary disk has one
1GB primary partition (boot) and four 30GB logical partitions. XP installed
on 1st logical partition (D, Vista on 2nd one(E.
Beta 2 installs much faster than 5308 (under one hour instead of over 2
hours). It finds the SATA disk without any problem, but I don't know if it's
native or it got the driver from XP when I started the install.
The numlock state is sticky under the login screen, which is a good thing
for someone using the French keyboard (which I do). I hope this remains the
case by the time RTM rolls out.
Explorer no longer uses up 100% CPU and is now reasonably responsive.
However, the standard menus have disappeared and I can find no way to invoke
them.
The Windows sidebar no longer has auto-hide ablility, and this is a bad
thing if you don't have a 20" or bigger hi-res monitor. Especially as the
"gadgets" don't get transparent when the cursor leaves the sidebar.
Networking works a lot better. The MCE component detected the multimedia
server on my Sony VAIO without any problem (in fact, it surprised me <g>). I
can use Remote Desktop from the VAIO (under XP), which wasn't possible with
5308. Glass doesn't operate with RD; with a 100Mbps LAN connection, it
should be possible to activate it.
More later on.