Andre Da Costa said:
Hello everyone,
I would like to know who here is running Windows Vista beta 2 x86 and x64
or both, which Editions, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business or Ulitmate.
What has prevented you from giving either platform the thumbs up, what you
do like or don't like about either platform, what is missing from the x64
version that has always been the 32-bit version.
I am going to include 5381 and 5365 x64, since a lot of persons might
still not have obtained BETA 2 yet.
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I forgot this info in my post before this. I'll start over from 0.
Vista x64 - because it is x64.
Asus A8N Sli Deluxe mobo
AMDX2 DualCore 4200+
2 Western Digital 74gb 10,000 rpm as raid 0. SATA 1
Western Digital NCQ 160gb sata backup drive
Iomagic Lightscribe dvd/rw DL etc
Floppy
1GB DDR Corsair ram which is the faster kind I think. 2x 512mb in dual
channel mode.
EVGA 7800 256mb PCI-X 16x video card not sli just by itself for now.
Samsung 19" SynchMaster 955DF monitor. It's not too bad. Looks much nicer in
Vista then XP that's for sure,
Thank you Microsoft. The text is better
then in XP.
Just a normal MS internet keyboard
Logitech wireless MX-700 mouse.
Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 speakers.
Dlink 510 wireless card, not sure if that's the right model number.
Using the onboard sound from the mobo.
HP Color Laser printer LaserJet 2550L
Resolution is 32bit color 1280x1024 @75hz
Vista is installed on the 160gb backup drive since I couldn't get it to
install on the raid because there was no Vista raid controller drivers
anywhere that I could tell.
HP printer doesn't work from the default windows install. I have not tried
to find any vista x64 drivers for this yet.
Install was fine. I'm so glad MS finally got the install to where you only
click a couple buttons because XP and previous install sucked with you
having to totally babysit the install selecting everything etc.
On first boot Vista came with no sound and no wireless drivers. Running the
option from the Welcome Center to install drivers for hardware not installed
already was very nice. It found the audio drivers, but nothing for the
wireless or printer etc. The network worked fine right off the bat though,
didn't have to do any driver install etc. With XP you do have to install
drivers before getting online, not in Vista x64 beta 2, whew!! Way to go MS.
I like the GUI much much better then XP. Text is more ledgable. Colors and
windows, folders, icons etc are much nicer. Glass and Areo are cool I think.
Not great, but cool. I hate how this is using the default stupid windows xp
sounds,
I thought Vista would have different and also better sounds for
browing the net and folders, trash can etc. I'm not sure why, but I really
like the sidebar now that I've used it. It's awesome how it is completely
transparent. It totally disappears to match the background. I love that
Vista has gadgets and they look great. The RSS feed on the sidebar will be
awesome once it works for me and once I learn it. IE7+ is nicer then
previous versions. I don't like the tab bar thing that is always there. That
button you click to open a new tab is stupid. It shouldn't be there and I
don't know how to get rid of it. I'd rather right click new tab then have
that button always in the tab bar. The start menu is a lot different. I'm
not sure I like it. I've not really been using it much. I do like how it
works with getting rid of the cascading menues, but also don't like it
totally. It's ok. It's going to take a little to get used to it, but it's ok
and I spose it does work for the most part with being user friendly in a way
and at least yer still able to get at stuff. I like Windows Mail better then
Outlook express. Colors, text, some other things. I am glad MS includes
their news server by default. This hopefully will be used a lot so people
can get help. Being able to tell what window is in front or back etc like a
lot complain about is a problem, but you can easily tell just by looking.
Sheese. The close/max and min buttons are different. This isn't good enough,
but you can tell. Hybernate is buggy. It doesn't work all the time and if it
does it has problems logging you in. My pc is set for 1 hr to go into
hybernation. Last night it was on all night and never did this. When it does
work it is locked when you come back. I don't like this since I'm the only
one using the pc. Have to change it if possible. When typing in the password
for your user account to unlock the pc it does not work a lot of times. I
type in my password to get back into windows, but it doesn't do anything.
The user icon goes away and all you see is the switch user button and I have
to click that and then re log in to get it to finally work. This is extremly
annoying, but I'm sure it'll get fixed. It dang well better. I don't like
the UAC, but I know you can turn it off via msconfig and also somewhere in
windows, but I forget where I found this at lol. I haven't turned it off as
I don't care right now, it's new and I want to use Vista at least for now in
such a way that I'm using what is new so I can learn it and get used to it.
I think to find things like the network stuff and things like that is a lot
harder to find then in XP and this really sucks. It's fine once I learn
where it's at though. The green progress bar is really nice compared to XP
and those stupid boxes as a progress bar. I like it ok I guess. It's much
more difficult when downloading files from the net in IE7+ because of the
new folder structure. I'm always having to look carefully where the
breadcrumb menu is showing and how to get there etc when saving files. I
just have to learn this now. I like it ok, but it's harder then XP, but only
because you need to get used to it. I think it's better to have that
breadcrumb thing as Mac OSX has had that ever since it came out years ago,
but it's better because it's easier to get to previous spots and to know
where you're at. I like the small shadow around the edges of windows and
stuff. It's nice.
That's all I can really think of for now. Hopefully this is a decent review
or whatever you call it.
