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Vista or xp?

Asked by crazydoc about 1 year ago, 11 answers.

what do you prefer vista or xp?
is vista worth the money?

and most importantly is the xp-vista gap same as 98-xp gap?

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Answered by stephanief987 on Dec 27, 2007, 01:27AM
13835 answers

I haven't heard anyone saying anything amazing about Vista so im assuming its nothing very fantastic. If it was that cool everyone would be talking about it, probley not worth the money.

Answered by mdk on Dec 27, 2007, 05:45AM
12 answers

VISTA really sucks. it has a lot of problems. go with XP not that windows are any good. you should switch operating systems

Answered by filletofspam on Dec 27, 2007, 07:19AM
2972 answers

My father-in-law has a high end laptop running Windows Vista and it is slow. Vista actually does have some nice stuff in it but unless you have a super high end machine you will be frustrated by its performance. You will probably be happier with XP.

Answered by funadvice on Dec 27, 2007, 10:46AM
53902 answers

VISTA=SUCKS
XP=THE BEST

stick wit xp

Answered by stellaapplemoor on Dec 27, 2007, 11:23AM
903 answers

I doo love vista and I think it's great on my computer. I havn't noticed any problems so far.. I've only had it for about a month though. However it's defenitely not worth the money just to buy the program to upgrade your computer. It's fine if it already comes with your computer..

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Answered by pluggz01 on Dec 27, 2007, 12:12PM

vista does have better graphics and some other better stuff than xp, but definitely dont buy vista right now. its still relatively new and therefore still has some problems. xp is definitely a more secure operating system right now. stick with xp for now and you can always upgrade to vista later.

Answered by brian8you on Dec 27, 2007, 01:00PM
92 answers

vista is only worth it on a brand new computer there are lots of updates it is hard to keep up with them all but it dose seem a bit better than xp if you have over 2 gb ram

Answered by funadvice on Dec 27, 2007, 06:57PM
53902 answers

Its a complicated question. XP is a stable, well proven OS environment, because it is already 6 years old and has had all the major bugs that come with a new OS ironed out of it. When XP was new, people hated it, much like people hate Vista now. Vista is comparatively new, and so still needs some refinement.

My parents have a relatively middle-to-high end laptop running Vista Home Premium, and it runs fine, its not noticeably slow for the most part, though if it were running XP it would be a lot faster. 1Gb of Ram is an absolute minimum with Vista I feel, more if you can, and steer well clear of Vista Home Basic.

The XP-Vista Gap - I'd liken it more to the 95-98 gap than the 98-XP gap. The difference is this time, Vista looks a lot more different than XP, whereas 95 and 98 had a similar look. I would consider Vista to be an evolutionary development from Xp, not a revolutionary one. The choice at the end of the day is yours - but keep in mind, XP is going to get out of date a lot quicker than Vista is.

Answered by funadvice on Dec 27, 2007, 08:19PM
53902 answers

XP. . . . is better
Vista is the new M.E.

Answered by funadvice on Dec 29, 2007, 12:09AM
53902 answers

Despite its shortcomings, Vista is a lot, lot better than Windows ME. It has similarities to ME (which was basically a jumped-up version of Windows 98SE with badly-integrated add-ons), but at least Vista is stable. A lot of Vista to me is unnecessary and resource-intensive eye candy, but on the whole, its not too bad...