Comments on: Prelim Vaio Update: Maybe Not So Sucky???

By: Mark Schneider

Mark Schneider — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:08:34 +0000

I heard about your plight on Ed Bott’s blog. The whole experience is intolerable. I wanted to say, I bought a mid level Dell (1420) which came with 0 junkware, 2 gigs of ram and 2.2 GHz Intel core 2 duo, The laptop had discrete video card and was spec’d identically to a Macbook Pro available at the time. The Dell was $900 cheaper out the door so I went with the Dell. I’ve had an excellent experience with the Dell and have not regretted the purchase one bit, Vista is now my operating system of choice, and sold off my last Mac, a Powerbook which was nice but ran out of storage, and is all but impossible for the home user to upgrade.
Vista does require more hardware than XP but XP required more than 98. With processing power and ram so cheap it doesn’t take much to have a good experience with Vista, but MS should have been more realistic with their requirements.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:06:37 +0000

My desktop PC is still too slow under Vista. A dedicated video card and a shot of memory should take care of it, but why must I invest more money in this Vista-certified computer that probably shouldn’t have been labeled as such? I hope MS doling out favors to Intel was worth it - a lot of the Vista negativity could have been avoided if they’d been honest about the performance requirements.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:51:02 +0000

The fact that you had to send the laptop off and it had to be wiped just shows how much pain you may have to go through with a Vaio and Windows. Enjoy your Macbook, I know your out-of-box experience was probably much different.