Widnows Vista -
The best OS yet.

So, why the late review you ask? I'll tell you why. Us here at GetOnePC don't like to take others words for it. Sure, we could have read others reviews, downloaded the beta and posted our thoughts but that isn't our style. It's both untruthful and inefficient. We have been using two different editions of Vista since release, Home Premium and Ultimate.

If you have been keeping up with the current rating on Windows Vista you may have noticed that thousands of people are complaining and trashing Vista. We just simply can't make biased decisions based on problems other people are having. Other peoples inability to get this OS working on their machine does not make Vista a bad OS. Let me tell you about the problems we did encounter.

Home Premium
The first edition we installed was Home Premium. Our system specs were the following....

• AMD X2 3400+ Dual Core CPU
• 2x 70GB Raptor Hard drives (10k rpm)
• 2x 7900 GTX GeForce Graphics Cards
• 2GB of Corsair DDR RAM
• Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound card
• 3 20.1 inch flat screen LCD monitors
• 5.1 Gigaworks wireless speaker system
• Standard keyboard/mouse with a Nostromo N52 gamepad

The first problem we encountered was a driver problem. Since we decided to go with the cheaper editions (the upgrades, not the full installs) we had to come from XP. Our first attempt to install the Vista upgrade resulted in freezes and an inability to complete the upgrade install. We then decided to start from scratch. So we wiped the hard drive and re-installed XP, then loaded the motherboard drivers and attempted to upgrade to Vista again. Needless to say, that failed as well. We continued doing this and changing a few options here and there until we just gave up on installing motherboard drivers before we got to Vista.

Our last, and successful, attempt to install Home Premium required us to go directly from XP to Vista and skip the motherboard installation. Amazingly, Vista detected everything the motherboard needed to run correctly with the exception of our sound card drivers (the sound blaster audigy card). An attempt to install the sound card drivers with the CD provided by the retail package of the card resulted in several BSOD's and failed installs. We then scoured the net insearch of Vista drivers. Luckily we found them, although half the features this card had in XP doesn't work and itsn't supported in Vista. That in itself isn't bad because Vista makes several technilogical advances in that department. We consider anything that isn't Vista compatable, outdated hardware. It's as simple as that. If it doesn't work with Vista, it might as well be a legacy device. So we updated the sound card to the new X-Fi card, installed the vista drivers and voila! We have Vista Home Premium up and running and completely stable!

Vista Ultimate
Vista Ultimate pretty much gave us the exact same problem. We isntalled this on our 'ultimate' rig. Here are the specs for it.....

• AMD 4600+ X2 CPU
• 1TB of hard drive space (Random SATA Western Digital)
• 2x 7950 GTX GeForce Graphics cards
• 4 20.1 inch flat screen LCD monitors
• 7.1 speaker system
• X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card
• Ageia Physx Card
• 3.2 GB of DDR2 RAM

The X-Fi sound card and the Physx card kept giving us an IRQ conflict BSOD. We simply removed the physx card and the problem was solved!

Aside from possibly having to update your computer, Vista is going to be THE best OS in the next year to come. Get prepared or get left behind. Take the jump and get the new OS. Vista is going to change technology for the better so stick with it and keep at it.

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