You were all right about, that I cant see from pictures how Vista is.
VISTA IS AMAZING - better than I thought.
It so nice, professional and smooth, just AMAZING. And its not just AERO, everything looks so nice and clean. I love it. I couldnt stop smiling for about 5 minutes after the first log in into Vista. No hunting for drivers, it looked and sounded amazing. Even sleep works after the Imac Boot update. I love it!!!! I love the security, major upgrade from XP and User Account Control is perfect like on a Mac except I just need to click on allow it and not put my password in every time. Nothing like clicking 14 times to delete something or BS like that I heard. I run Vista for 2 days without a Antivirus program because there was no chance I could get one (except if someone would heck it but I dont belive someone will before Vista will be released). UAC always came up and put the alert right in front of every windows if something wanted to be installed from the internet or where ever. Its not annoying at all which I read. I hope it wont get hacked, because its just perfect for now, but only time will tell
Transparency is made very smart, I can have a 100 windows over a windows and it will not be a problem at all. No driver issues, no stability issues, no software compatibillity issues for the apps I wanted to install. Just Perfect
I love everything about Vista and its for sure worth the upgrade and the money. I will definately buy it and Office 2007 is amazing also. nothing like that out there.
And for people who said Vista is a slight upgrade to XP. I didnt know where to start when I logged into Vista for the first time. So many new things.
It looks very similar to XP but is a big difference between XP, A BIG DIFFERENCE - AND ITS NOT JUST AERO
For me all advantages the Mac had over Windows are gone with Vista (except security could be a problem when Vista is released). Thats because Windows copied a lot of what i like about Mac and in my opinion made it better and I dont care I dont work for apple and at the end it only matters to me which company makes the better product.
What I liked about Mac OSX and is now better or as good as in Vista
Speed - Vista is not slow at all, faster than XP, same as Mac OSX and same speed as working with universal apps. It even boots up at about the same time as mac osx
Stability - Very stabil not one crash even with drivers in beta and a lot of software not compatibile with Vista. Amazing! As on the Mac
Sleep - It works now beautifully in Vista as on the Mac due the Imac boot update yesterday, before it didnt when I tried but didnt expect it to work because it didnt on XP for me
Software & Games (what every windows user says what he doesnt like about mac
)- More for Windows than Mac
Security (what every Mac user says to Windows users is better on Mac
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Macs security is very good of course, but Vistas security is a major upgrade form XP. I love UAC and if I wouldnt worry about people hacking Windows security (which I do, happened in the past and still does with XP and later versions I think) I wouldnt install an antivirus program or spyware program, because I am an experienced user and for sure would know when UAC alerts me and a virus would want to install itself, and I would just have to deny it. And I Love the protective mode in Internet explorer
GUI - I dont wanna go even there, I think everybody knows with a good System that will run Vista like my C2D Imac does, which is better, to some it doesnt matter to some its almost everything,
but like I said if Vista would be slow in performance I would format it straight away
Search function is the same but didnt use it too much yet so I dont know in detail.
Flip 3d is better for me. because its 3d not 2d like in mac and you can scroll in3d through windows I love it. When you have a lot of windows open vistas way of expose is much better with the scrolling through windows in my opinion.
Sidebar is perfect for me because I didnt use it too much in Mac OSX and wouldnt be usefull in Vista also if it wouldnt be on the desktop. Its nice for feeds ( I see important headlines more often because its on the desktop) and things like that and also looks good, much better than in pictures I looked at first before trying Vista
Sidebar is now in Vista like in Mac OSX Finder is the same and you can add folders to it
Thats all I can think of at the moment
Whats Mac has and I cant use on Vista
I liked frontrow and would be nice if i could use the apple remote with Windows Media center but I think that will never happen.
Ilife is very good, liked it very much, but there is something similar for Windows for sure (not as good but similar) and some similar apps included in Ilife come with Vista for free
Thats all I can think of at the moment
There are so many things I like about Vista its for sure worth the upgrade no doubt in my opinion.I could write 5 pages about what I like. And the way vista handles problems is just amazing.
When I wanted to install apples keyboard support and the installation hung. It just automatically like in XP came a window to end the task and I was beside that copying something from a DVD and downloading something from the internet and defragmentation was running and search indexing (defragmentation and indexing slows down if you are doing a lot of things at the same time or pauses and continues automatically after you stop - I love it) Unlike Xp it just forced the installation to quit and everything else was still running, in xp all would start hanging or it would close every open program. And after that it tried to look for a solution to the problem over the internet - I love it.
And above I said I didnt have a problem with Vista I still mean it, it was nothing close to a problem. It solved everything automatically
And the bad things you all said about Vista could be maybe because you used betas and RC which had problems and I used the final RTM version. I am sure its that, there were a lot of inner windows builds between RC2 and the final RTM which were just in the windows labs but not released outside of windows (dont know how to explain this but its true I read it somewhere but cant remember where)
I feel kinda bad for using a software right now for free. Microsoft put a lot of work in it but hey it also took 5 years. (and it took 5 years because after 2 years they had to start from scratch and build Vista upon Windows 2003 Server and not Xp like they did the first 2 years because they screwed up something)
And the serch thing like spotlight on the mac was actually from windows I read but they couldnt make it to work and apple heard about it and put it into mac and made it to work and for the Widgets I am sure a lot of you know Apple took it from konfubulator.
All I am trying to say is apple does it the same as Microsoft it just looks like microsoft does it more often
I also have Office 2007 RTM Ultimate and its amazing, nothing like that out there. It suprised me how good it is. Most of all I like outlook and OneNote
