May 6, 2008
Vista One Month On
Okay, it’s a little more than a month on, but never mind. This is a follow-up to my post here about Vista, and how crap everyone says it is. I’ve been arguing messing playing with my laptop for long enough now to write what I think about it 
What I like
The look. The Vista interface is millions of times better than XP was, I think, and the new effects do it justice, it’s all very nice.
Media Center. With sufficient RAM, it runs quickly, it looks good, and does everything I want it to, (I think). It’s silly that they didn’t just build media player into it, but never mind.
What I Don’t Like
Resource Usage. When I bought this laptop, it came with a gig of RAM, and it made it pretty clear to me (as laptops do 
) that it wasn’t enough. Media Center wouldn’t run properly, IE was slow, and everything was generally sluggish. Now I’ve got 2.5 in, it’s happier, but it idles on 0.75 to 1.5 gigs usage, even with nothing running.
UAC. “Vista needs your permission to do this” “vista needs your permission to do that”. VISTA! DO WHAT YOU LIKE (sorta) JUST STOP ASKING FORÂ SODDING PERMISSION. I know I can turn it off, and I will. What’s strange is that it pops up and irritates me on the little things, but when I try to run, say, an installer, most of the time it doesn’t show up. Silly thing. It’s also pissing annoying that when it asks for permission, it loads its taskbar thingy, but doesnt pop up. Just flashes profusely at me.
Hibernation Silliness. Sometimes, not all the time, I tell my pc to hibernate, it does, and then it wakes back up again by itself. WHY?! On the flipside, sometimes (more often) when I start it up, it starts up, then goes back into hibernation. Again, WHY?!
There are other things I like or dislike, but it’d take forever to list them. Literally.
