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After my first trip with my newest laptop (which has Vista Business), I'm having second thoughts about keeping Vista on it. I bought an OEM 3-pack of XP last year. I have one left, and I think I'm going to reformat my laptop with it. It's a Toshiba, and it has lots of XP support.
I got seriously tired of the way Vista "manages" wireless connections, and the machine itself seemed brutally slow on the wireless connections I had in the hotel and conference room. There's no excuse for that with 2GB of memory. The one and only advantage I see with Vista 32 is that it can manage more than the 32-bit memory limit (somewhere around 2.39GB), but then again, so can 2000/XP with the /3GB extension in boot.ini.
Vista also refuses to shut down when I close the laptop's lid, no matter how I set it up...it always went into sleep mode, and the first time I did that (thinking it was off), I came back to a dead battery. Win XP and 2000 would shut down in less than 3 seconds, but Vista seems to take forever after any wireless session.
They still have some work to do, but I have a better idea...how about a clean-sheet design, instead of the 20,000-man human pyramid that Vista has become? One guy sneezes, and the whole thing collapses. Layers upon layers upon layers of ancient, inefficient code aren't helped by faster processors and more memory, despite what MS wishes. I can still see NT, 2000, and XP hiding underneath the Vista skin, and it's getting old.
IMHO, 2000 is still the most stable, and runs programs the fastest. I just don't have it on any of my machines anymore...
End of rant.
I got seriously tired of the way Vista "manages" wireless connections, and the machine itself seemed brutally slow on the wireless connections I had in the hotel and conference room. There's no excuse for that with 2GB of memory. The one and only advantage I see with Vista 32 is that it can manage more than the 32-bit memory limit (somewhere around 2.39GB), but then again, so can 2000/XP with the /3GB extension in boot.ini.
Vista also refuses to shut down when I close the laptop's lid, no matter how I set it up...it always went into sleep mode, and the first time I did that (thinking it was off), I came back to a dead battery. Win XP and 2000 would shut down in less than 3 seconds, but Vista seems to take forever after any wireless session.
They still have some work to do, but I have a better idea...how about a clean-sheet design, instead of the 20,000-man human pyramid that Vista has become? One guy sneezes, and the whole thing collapses. Layers upon layers upon layers of ancient, inefficient code aren't helped by faster processors and more memory, despite what MS wishes. I can still see NT, 2000, and XP hiding underneath the Vista skin, and it's getting old.
IMHO, 2000 is still the most stable, and runs programs the fastest. I just don't have it on any of my machines anymore...
End of rant.
