Michael Connick actually likes Vista!

Published by rodfather on September 25, 2007 02:51 pm under Gadgets, umpc

Mikey likes it!

Responding to all the backlash on Vista, Michael Connick wrote in a blog post saying Vista is working quite well, thank you very much. What’s surprising, he’s running it on a 600Mhz A100 Kohjinsha SH6 UMPC. Maybe a good helping of RAM and solid drivers are all you need?

There’s been a lot of Vista bashing going on in the blogosphere lately. Postings about the horrors of attempting to run Vista on a UMPC, postings about computer vendors now offering XP downgrades from Vista, even postings from Chippy at the UMPC Portal on how he’s removed Vista and installed the XP Tablet Edition on his Kohjinsha SH6.

Well, I’m going to have to post a respectful disagreement with all this Vista negativity. I like Vista on my SH6 UMPC. I haven’t had any serious problems with Vista, and I’ve really come to appreciate the new features that it offers over XP.

Features like ease of managing local networks, ease in adding printers, cleaner and more attractive end user interface, better Tablet features (like improved handwriting recognition), decent performance (if you have 2 GBs of memory!), and good stability (I’ve found it comparable or better than the Tablet OS).

Now there are a few glitches in Vista, like sometimes being very slow in coming out of Sleep mode, but really nothing that I feel detracts all that greatly from its positives.

What can I say but that I’m just happy with Vista on my UMPC. Am I really the only person who is?

P.S. Apologies Mr. Connick if you don’t like being called Mikey. :)

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  • Scott
    "...then you have the choice of OS."

    Unfortunately, my PC's manufacturer doesn't offer Win XP (or Win XP drivers) as a choice for new machines -- and I don't have time to experiment to see if Win XP drivers will work out of the box. That's pretty much the only reason I left Vista on my new laptop rather than "downgrading" it to Win XP when I got it.
  • Vista does, indeed, work well with 2GB RAM on an SH6. Quite amazing really.

    However, XP Tablet runs faster and would probably allow you to get the same productivity out of a 1GB machine. It largely depends on your tablet requirements. As i'm someoone that doesn't use handwriting, there aren't many features in Vista that really make much difference to me.

    The key thing is, get the 2GB upgrade when you buy an SH6 and then you have the choice of OS.

    Steve
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