I recently wiped the hard drive on my Lenovo X60 tablet and restored its original contents, reverting from Vista to Windows XP in the process. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t like Vista. There are a lot of nice things about it, including the “Aero” look (yes, I like it), the numerous improvements to the Explorer windows, the new features for pen-based input, and the photo-viewer thing.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, though, it demands too much of the host computer. The machine isn’t a slouch; it’s less than a year old, rated “Vista-ready”, and has a dual-core CPU. But the contrast–particularly now that I’ve reverted to XP–is fairly dramatic. I get a lot more battery time running under XP, the machine goes in and out of standby much more quickly, file-copy operations happen more rapidly, .zip files uncompress much more quickly, and even the Start menu is faster. In other words, performance characteristics that are particularly relevant to a laptop are definitely degraded by Vista. In the end, longer battery life and greater responsiveness\u00a0are more important to me than Vista’s benefits.<\/p>\n
So, the tablet will run XP for the foreseeable future. Eventually I’ll try Vista on my desktop again, but I’ll probably wait until SP1 is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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