Vista Ultimate, worth it?

[Neil_Mk1]

I can get Vista Home Premium for £70 or Ultimate for £119, is it worth the extra? I'll mainly be using my PC for gaming.

 

[Adams_16v]

its not worth anything at the mo IMO. wait for some service packs to fix bugs first!

but i would get the ultimate when the times comes over the home!

 

[morgan349]

I've got it. no bugs, no crashes, it works great. worth the dosh imo

 

[Tom]

I've got it. no bugs, no crashes, it works great. worth the dosh imo

Os x?

 

[KDF]

MS should be paying you to use it..

 

[Mells]

MS should be paying you to use it..

lol, beat me to it!

 

[David]

anyone having problems playing games on it, i did with the beta not tried the new full version...

 

[Saner]

Got Vista Ultimate 64 running on a couple of old machines and haven't had a single problem. It's very pretty and eats memory and hard drive space.. thats about all it does...

 

[Tim-Grove]

i hear loads of people saying to wait for SP1 before using vista because of all the bugs it has. but ive been using ultimate for a month now and not had one single problem with it. All my hardware and devices were either recognised write away by vista or had drivers online.

By the amount of scare mungering ive read i expected blue screens every 5 mins.

 

[carrmrc96]

personally I wouldnt even go near vista, i put it on my pc and within 5 mins of using it I put xp back on. Vista is the worst OS ever!!!

 

[TheJesus]

Vista's just a newer version of the virus knowns as Windows XP... you only upgrade when you have to

 

[Daz]

I'm running it on my Macbook Pro at the moment.
I wouldn't use anything other than Ultimate tho.. personally.

 

[sn00p]

I'm running it on my Macbook Pro at the moment.
I wouldn't use anything other than Ultimate tho.. personally.

I'm loving this review of Home Basic on amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000KCIA0K/?tag=cliospnet01-21

 

[Daz]

I'm running it on my Macbook Pro at the moment.
I wouldn't use anything other than Ultimate tho.. personally.

I'm loving this review of Home Basic on amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000KCIA0K/?tag=cliospnet01-21

Haha.

 

[RichMcc]

OS looks great, office is good but very little works on it, I wish I had stuck to XP!

 

[Adam]

i have been running ultimate for nearly 2 months and not had any probs

 

[Toypop]

In answer to the original question: No it is not worth it.

But people just like to get the most expensive version for some reason.

A bit like how everyone used to spend more buying XP Pro instead of XP home when 99% of them never used the extra features.

 

[RSi Dave]

im using it, works fine and no problems at all.

 

[Munson]

Ultimate version - perhaps not worth the extra over Home Premium.

Vista generally? I love it, but expect some potential issues if you're putting it on an XP machine, deal with them like a man, and you'll be fine. Alternatively, you could rant on about how bad it is on an internet forum because the beta/pirate (delete as applicable) version you tried, didn't suck you off and isn't made by Apple

 

[rich[182]]

I dont understand why people feel the need to move from XP to Vista NOW
Ive run XP Pro SP2 for ages, never missed a beat, great for pc gaming + all apps, i may change next year when i build new pc gaming rig

 

[Munson]

^^Just because they can perhaps? It's a good thing there are early adopters, or the service packs you're all jacking off over would never appear

 

[Neil_Mk1]

Plus Vista has Dx10

 

[ViolentJ]

I dont understand why people feel the need to move from XP to Vista NOW
Ive run XP Pro SP2 for ages, never missed a beat, great for pc gaming + all apps, i may change next year when i build new pc gaming rig

Because it's shiny and new, I guess it's a bit like going from a 182 to a 197. 182 has probably done you well and there's nothing wrong with it but the 197 is newer.

Edit: Thanks Tom

 

[Tom]

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