Quizás más tarde la Vista

My new laptop finally made it back from HP after having the LCD display repaired, but I can’t say I missed it much while it was gone.

It was actually kind of convenient having everything loaded on one workstation. The graphics card on that system only has one port, so I had to get used to using only one monitor again, but I moved my 24″ LCD external monitor over to that system so at least I had a pretty decent amount of screen real estate to work with.

I was expecting this system to get bogged down with everything running on it at once, but actually I noticed very little difference. In fact, where I noticed any difference at all it appeared that Windows XP on a 1.8 Ghz P4 actually performs faster than Vista 64-bit on a 2Ghz Intel Core Duo T7200. I’m sure that there are some optimizations to Vista that I still need to perform, but out of the box I’d say that isn’t a “Wow” experience.

Then today Vista got its panties tied in a knot when I was trying to open a folder in Explorer. I can’t say for sure that’s what caused it, but it was coincidental to the second. The “working” icon displayed, and everything else froze. Then the mouse icon disappeared, and even Ctrl+Alt+Del elicited no response. Serves me right for not using the command prompt instead, I guess. I ended up having to give it the 5-second middle-finger salute to power off and restart.

Maybe SP1 will sort some of these things out, but I’m not downloading any release candidate. Microsoft ships fully released versions with enough bugs for me.