Windows Vista Home Premium with SP1 Upgrade

I bought a new Dell XPS 1330 a few months ago which came with Vista as the OS and it's an inferior and buggy product. Here are the issues I've had to deal with:

1. Right out of the box, Windows would not shut down. Vista gives you something like seven options but all of them led to the same thing--the system froze. The only way to turn off my computer was with the power button.

2. The problem with the system turn off mysteriously solved itself after a month, but then I had problems connecting to the internet. I kept getting a dialog box saying "limited connectivity"--the basic issue was I was connected to my router, but for reasons best known to itself Vista wouldn't let any of my browsers access the net. This drove me bats and I ended paying a tech service a hundred bucks to fix it. It took them about 30 minutes--they said they were seeing the same problem over and over with Vista (they may be the only demographic to really love this OS, it must be making them a fortune).

3. The display driver just doesn't work with Vista (it's an nvidia driver, and this issue is all over blogs and net forums). It repeatedly causes the system to freeze, crash, and when that doesn't happen the screen will at odd moments fizzle into mandelbrot fractals or trippy 60s style lines. These inevitably end in the blue screen of death experience. I've downloaded a series of "updated" or "improved" drivers from Dell and nvidia and, if anything, the problem has gotten worse. This problem happens randomly, and it basically means I no longer use the $2,000 laptop I bought expressly for work for anything but casual web surfing--I simply can't afford to do anything on this computer that is work critical because chances are I'll lose it.

I've got some of the same nitpicky complaints about Vista aired elsewhere (it's HUGE memory hog, the Aero "experience" is more of a pain than a delight etc etc), but really the bottom line is that I just can't fathom putting out a product that is so bad; the biggest fan of Vista has to be Steve Jobs, it's almost as if Microsoft wants people to shift to Macs.

I'm no innate Microsoft basher (I used XP and NT for years w/no complaints), but my strong advice is avoid this OS if you can.

Never recieved item. Tried to email seller several times, no answer. Had to go to Amazon to get money back. I would never buy from this seller again.

Only the makers of this horrible, tragic system would have to trick people with a different name to get them to try it.Have had this on my computer for almost a year and let me say it has just about made me hate the internet!Everytime i see that commercial for the Mojave Experiment where they have people who are either(1) paid or (2)liars talk about how "cool" this product is, it makes me wanna jump thru the tv and strangle them!Microsoft dropped the ball on this one, it is absolutely without fail, a failure!So, if you are a martyr, or maybe need a few more grey hairs to get the complete Richard Gere look, try this, if you would rather enjoy your computer and the internet avoid this at all costs!

I'm not going to start by saying a computer programmer or helped design the rocket ship because lets face it its a review over the web and you can be anything you like. Anyway....

I brought and updated to vista from xp and all I can say is boy am I glad that I did, the install process was fine took a while, but was problem free, the real problems started when vista loaded up, like everyone else I had some old programs/equipment plugged into my system, so I started to get some errors and the odd crash. thing was most of these problems were easily fixed with a update, there was still a couple, my printer was to old and not supported, now I was a bit upset at this as the printer was fine, but a quick Google search reviled that I just needed to install it as a newer model. yes vista seemed slower at first but again a quick search of the internet will revel that there is 2-3 programs that run in the background that can be switched off, the main one and the reason that your hard drive light might be on all the time is that vista archives everything and sorts it constantly (like having disk defrag running all the time) no worries turn it off in the settings, same as the scan it likes to run, turn off defender while your there, I installed spybot and AVG (both free) and grab yourself Firefox as a alternative to Internet explorer, if one isn't responding the other can take its place for a while and not had any problems, the machine is stable very fast to load up and to power down I have multiple applications open and its fine, and I have found the photo/video editing to work really well without having to spend lots on separate software.

there was a lot of early problems that have now been ironed out, like there was with XP or any early version of electrical item's that comes out, just don't expect to much if you have a old machine and less then 2 gig of ram, hell stuff 4 gig in your machine its so cheap now.....

I have a newer PC and laptop that both came with Vista already installed. So far, so good. I actually like it a lot better than XP and hate going back to XP computers when I come across them. Just like anything, it takes some time getting used to it, but once you do, you will realize that it has some great, new little features. I would assume that some people are having problems with installing it on older machines. That might be because older machines may not have the all the requirements that a program like Vista requires. It is new, so it requires more than XP probably does. Also, some older programs may not have been made with Vista in mind and only work up through XP, so of course, those programs are going to have issues with Vista, but that isn't necessarily Vista's fault. The way they keep coming out with new programs and features, we all have to upgrade all the time!

Bottom line, I like Vista and haven't had a single problem - going on 6 months now.