
Originally Posted by
cjl
Honestly, I use vista on my main computer, and it is my exclusive operating system (well, I actually do have it dual booted with XP, and I honestly almost never use XP except for Solidworks). It is far better than XP, and from my experience, it is roughly equivalent or faster in just about every case. Boot up times are comparable (both right around 60 seconds), login times are similar (though XP is slightly faster), and actual application performance is slightly faster in Vista. I also like many of the integrated features, as well as the extra security (no viruses, spyware, or adware yet). As much as people complain, it is a great operating system, and my biggest complaint is driver compatibility - it is incredibly hard to find good recent drivers for my video card (apparently a problem that is not unique to vista, but rather common to all nvidia notebook cards). Even that problem is getting better - I'm finally running drivers from October rather than February.