Not a lot of action here for a few days. My laptop is finally (thanks Dell - 5 months for an upgrade - well done) resplendent in its new Vista livery.
In the end I went with a clean install and decided on a dual boot system (Vista and XP MCE) which is cool. Pretty much all of the software I run is Vista compatible but hey, dual boot looks geeky.
My view of Vista?
Well, not that anyone cares but . . .
It looks pretty. Aero is . . . erm . . . pretty. Sidebars? Ever used a Mac or Desktop Sidebar for XP? Still, to have news pumped right onto the desktop (yeah, OK, mostly entertainment and broadcasting news from Digital Spy) is still pretty cool. Nice clock as well. The dual core Multi Meter (from these guys or the Vista Windows Live Gallery)has proved to be useful.
And despite the nay-sayers it fairly flies on my 1gb memory (about to be expanded) 1.8mhz dual core Turion 64 TL-56 processored laptop. It's marginally faster than XP MCE was on the same system but that may be down to the clean install. We'll see when it starts to clog up in the next few months.
Would I recommend it.
If you've got some fairly modern equipment then YES. Certainly. If not then maybe stick with XP or when you decide to buy a new computer, then get one with it already installed.
There you go - non-committal as ever.
Boz
