{"id":258,"date":"2007-12-12T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-12-12T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T08:00:28","slug":"ryan-orsers-windows-vista-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/ryan-orsers-windows-vista-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Orser\u2019s Windows Vista Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using Windows Vista for over a week now. Why I chose to review Windows Vista I am unsure, but for reasons unknown I installed it. In the future I will review Windows Vista SP1 even though it&#8217;s likely the changes will be small.<\/p>\n<p>The specifications of my laptop are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD Turion 1.6 GHz tl-50 Dual Core,<\/li>\n<li>NVidia  Geforce Go 6150<\/li>\n<li>Broadcom  wireless<\/li>\n<li>1GB of RAM<\/li>\n<li>80 GB Hard Drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be covering these topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hardware<\/li>\n<li>How does it run?<\/li>\n<li>What I like and dislike<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was not surprised to discover that Vista is a resource hog. It takes about 2 minutes to boot the OS, log in, then load wireless, sidebar, and a whole lot more stuff. The Windows side bar takes the longest to load its five widgets. I use a clock widget, weather reporter, CPU usage monitor, calendar, and currency converter. The CPU usage stays over 10% all the time, even when I&#8217;m not doing anything. That makes me sad.<\/p>\n<p>Vista: a turtle could probably crawl up and down the stairs a couple of times before it loads. There is nothing that is clearly slowing it down, except maybe all the sidebar widgets. The overall visual theme is a lot better in my opinion than XP&#8217;s and previous versions. Applications seem to load quickly, though they should be with all the RAM and CPU power this computer has.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my likes and dislikes about Vista:<\/p>\n<p>First the good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The default wallpapers are very nice<\/li>\n<li>The visual theme is pleasant to the eyes.<\/li>\n<li>It runs smoothly, without any stability problems.<\/li>\n<li>No BSODs!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now the bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Takes almost 2 minutes to load.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of visual customization makes the interface get boring after a while.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft need to find a way to get it to run faster.<\/li>\n<li>The Microsoft help line always asks you to restart your computer.<\/li>\n<li>The wireless can get screwed up after waking from hibernation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, Vista is better then XP but does not beat Linux. I may be biased individual, but I think that Linux loads and runs faster as well as being more customizable. I do like Vista and I may come back to it, but I can&#8217;t help liking Linux a lot better after all the problems that I have been through with Vista and other Windows versions.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings:<br \/>\n3\/5 for usability<br \/>\n4\/5 for  GUI<br \/>\n1\/5 for customizability<br \/>\n3\/5 for performance<\/p>\n<p>Overall rating:<br \/>\n11\/20. An okay OS, but it can&#8217;t beat the competition.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to give feedback,  please use the &#8220;leave reply box&#8221; to leave me a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been using Windows Vista for over a week now. Why I chose to review Windows Vista I am unsure, but for reasons unknown I installed it. In the future I will review Windows Vista SP1 even though it&#8217;s likely the changes will be small. The specifications of my laptop are as follows: AMD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,43,45,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}