Okay ive been playing with vista on my macbook rev a for a little bit and here are my initial thoughts....
UI - greatley improved over xp. the look and feel when using works very well and useless as they are everyone likes special effects.
Useability - Diminished from xp, the system is greatley complicating things asking for permission to perform simple tasks but more annoying having pop-ups telling me things i already no. overall the interface gets in the way sometimes.
Media Centre - Improved again i feel media centre is better than front row, front row is simpler and easier however the amount of things you cant do means for me frontrow isnt powerfull enough, maybe apple tv will change things i dont no.
Security - yet to be seen
Speed - startup and shutdown are sluggish for me but once up vista handles very quickly
Widgets, they waste screen space which is valueable to me as my screen is small but at the same time it is good to be able to glance across and see some of its 'gadgets'. i sometimes forget about dashboard. not sure which implementation i prefer here yet.
Install - pretty easy i thought
Driver support - needs a lot of work. This works better on my machine than my friends near new sony laptop and his fujitsu desktop. He also cant play any games on his machine as they all dont work on vista.
IE 7 - while not strictly a vista only experiance its part of the OS. Seems to support transparent PNG's and render a lot of the sites ive built better however not too keen on the button layout and ui....
Overall better than i expected after using the beta as im actually impressed this time around. I do think os x is superior still however the gap is much less in my opinion. Im hoping leopord wows me and i really hope they unify the look and feel a bit more.
Ed
UI - greatley improved over xp. the look and feel when using works very well and useless as they are everyone likes special effects.
Useability - Diminished from xp, the system is greatley complicating things asking for permission to perform simple tasks but more annoying having pop-ups telling me things i already no. overall the interface gets in the way sometimes.
Media Centre - Improved again i feel media centre is better than front row, front row is simpler and easier however the amount of things you cant do means for me frontrow isnt powerfull enough, maybe apple tv will change things i dont no.
Security - yet to be seen
Speed - startup and shutdown are sluggish for me but once up vista handles very quickly
Widgets, they waste screen space which is valueable to me as my screen is small but at the same time it is good to be able to glance across and see some of its 'gadgets'. i sometimes forget about dashboard. not sure which implementation i prefer here yet.
Install - pretty easy i thought
Driver support - needs a lot of work. This works better on my machine than my friends near new sony laptop and his fujitsu desktop. He also cant play any games on his machine as they all dont work on vista.
IE 7 - while not strictly a vista only experiance its part of the OS. Seems to support transparent PNG's and render a lot of the sites ive built better however not too keen on the button layout and ui....
Overall better than i expected after using the beta as im actually impressed this time around. I do think os x is superior still however the gap is much less in my opinion. Im hoping leopord wows me and i really hope they unify the look and feel a bit more.
Ed