Digital BW, The Print

The upgrade advisor is slick and nice but unless you have a compelling need
to run Vista I would hold off on making it my primary OS.  

The lack of software compatibility will drive you nuts.

 

On my machine I had the following issues.  (I am have been running 64 bit
vista since last fall and have been using RTM since it came out in Early
Dec)

 

No driver for my SCSI card.

No support for my film scanner.  (so no scanning of film)

No support from Gretag Macbeth/Xrite for my Eye (so no color management)

Poor Nvidia driver support (video drivers lack performance).

Anti Virus support just shipped from Symantec and is slow.

 

So with all of that, I have kept a dual boot build of XP where I can run all
of that.

 

My advice would be to ensure that you can still run XP.

 

The original poster said that they were having some odd long term problems
with XP.   If you had problems with XP (either config or poor drivers) they
will just be translated over to Vista.  One of my really old machines was
crippled by the upgrade test I did (so I reloaded it from backup).

 

Unless you do a clean install of Vista, upgrading a degraded XP install will
just make you dislike the folks from Redmond even more.  

 

Regards

Brentley

 

From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mr
Barrington Maye
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 06:33
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Just starting - Vista OS

 

Microsoft has a nifty utility called vista upgrade advisor which checks
driver availability before installing. I'd suggest anyone thinking of
upgrading vista use it before purchasing vista.

Baza

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andre Moreau 
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> 
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 12:06 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Just starting - Vista OS

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , "markebrauer"
<markebrauer@...> wrote:

> - I'd like a relatively recent printer as I expect to move to Vista
> soon (having longterm problems with XP, I feel like anything would be
> better). I've seen too much hardware thrown away over the years due
> to lack of drivers.

Mark,

Vista, like previous operating system has teething problems. Right
now, a lot of drivers are missing simply because the equipment mfg's
(from sound cards to printers) have not made them available.

I don't know what problems you've had with XP, but the reaction of
some people who've installed Vista make me think that I'll wait for
Service Pack 1 (SP1) before I even consider it. Vista will slow down
your computer compared to XP, is memory hungry and still has several
bugs although updates have already been released this week.

Consider Vista as jut an upgrade to XP and posssibly the last OS
change for a very long time to come.

Cheers,
Andre

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