3 posts tagged “vista”

Taking a break from web development for a while, I decided to try to create a widget for my sidebar. I figured it would be damn hard and getting the text up would be a pain in the ass. But instead I found a simple tutorial on developing Sidebar widgets. I highly recommend trying this it was just too easy to resist, soon I made my own custom widgets. The great thing was is that the widgets are just HTML/JS/CSS/XML. Simple. Well, back to PHP!

    My new HP dv9205us laptop finally came. It came with Vista home premium on it, which, contrary to popular belief, is actually not using not that slow.

    Windows Vista is a resource hog, yes, that is very true. My laptop came with 1gb ram, a 120 gb HDD, and a 288mb graphics card. The cards memory is shared in that 1 gigabyte. The RAm usuage meter hovers around 48%-79% on average. I have a hard time getting it much further over while doing something useful/interesting. Meaning, when I am playing Silkroad online and doing my daily virus scan at the same time, the RAM usage hovers around 85%-80%. I have only rarely used any more than 85%.

    So my main compliant of Vista is by far it's resource usage. So whats my favorite feature? No, it is not aero. It is the built in Speech Recognition tool. It works okay in the beginning. But, as you keep using it, it gets better.

So vista is okay now as it is, but there are better alternitives. Wait for SP1.

was it worth it?

Now that Vista is finally the big question in everyone's mind is: Was it worth the wait?

I personally think not. It looks to me like Microsoft playing catch-up with OSX and Unix/Linux(GNOME/KDE).

We will find out sooner or later.