Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 64-bit for System Builders - 1 pack
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Software Reviews of Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 64-bit for System Builders - 1 pack
Customer Review: Not what was advertised
Summary: 1 Stars
Compared to Windows 7 Vista is horrific. It is a downgrade from Windows XP. I ordered this because it said free upgrade to Windows 7, except what they sent was "Old Stock" and lacking the coupon needed. Amazon.com refused to get me a coupon, but at least let me get a refund. Buy Windows 7 from New Egg. the customer service is better as is the price.Customer Review: Vista Ultimate 64-Bit--Not So Baaad of an OS After All!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Vista Ultimate 64-bit OEM for System Builders worked 100% for my PC build, enabling me to qualify for Windows 7 Ultimate OS Upgrade, which is a good thing! I cannot say that the Vista OEM OS really gave me any headaches, in fact it performed great in the 9 months that I used it this year. People say, "Oh, Vista Sucks!" But you know what? I can't say that at all about it...it worked, did its job, enabling my Core i7 920 computer build to rocket upward to 4438Mhz at one point, settling on 4210Mhz 24/7, an admirable number to be running a lowly 2.66Ghz CPU at, right? So I dunno...you figure it out! It always worked 110% for my purposes, but then again, I didn't have anything to compare it to, so maybe my hindsight is Jaded after all.
Overall? I had to give the OS 5 Stars, because it worked so gosh darned good when it was in the machine! I cannot lie, you know? If it sucked, I'd tell you all it did...but it didn't, sooo I tell it like it is...the good, the bad, and the indifferent, none of which fits here: it was a solid 5 Stars when I used it, it got me to Windows 7 Ultimate, so that's a good thing!
Wavey Davey - Dec. 1, 2009
Customer Review: Microsoft jumped the gun
Summary: 2 Stars
I build my own systems and as such, am my own IT department. I've been doing this for almost two decades now and have fairly extensive experience with every iteration of windows out there, except the Millenium Edition and NT. I also own a MacBook Pro running OS 10.6, which I used extensively throughout graduate school. I mention that because of Apple's OSX, which Vista was launched to compete with.
To begin, Vista 64 bit has many new and highly useful features. I can't praise the media center application enough. It enables me to record movies (when I had a job), smartly record program series without the hassle of the VHS coding systems of days past and will catalog your movies by date recorded, title, etc. It's a wonderful feature. Aero is stunning; very sleek and customizable and the dreamscapes offer serious eye candy and are also a cottage industry for some specialized websites. The scroll-through open windows interface is genius; I wish OS X had that. Unfortunately, the "gadgets" are nearly useless. Apple has a gazillion it seems while there is a dearth for Vista or Win 7; maybe I'm not going to the right places, I don't know...
As for stability, ehm... I have had nothing but problems with Vista Ultimate. I purchased the system builder's edition, which is identical to the retail version with the sole exception being the license limitation to one system (they tie it to the motherboard). I would have to restart my machine every one to two days due to system instability, programs crashing or the system locking up as well as the familiar BSOD. Initially, I thought some of this had to do with the software I was running, but the problems persisted after a disk zero out, clean format and re-install, so I can only conclude that poor driver support and buggy programming were to blame. I downloaded and installed SP 2, still, the problems persisted. While Vista is a notable upgrade from XP, there was not enough software developer input or time spent debugging the code. XP was a wonderfully simple operating system and relatively simple to use. As such, it didn't eat up 35% of my 24 GB of available ram. XP still had life in it and with Vista, well, Microsoft you jumped the gun and I trust you even less for it now.
While I have a bias towards Apple, I try to remain as objective as possible and still favor OS X for it's aesthetics and almost spartanly simply interfaces as well as rock solid stability; once my MBPro was up for two months straight. OS X also doesn't lose my icons or do other goofy things like reboot at random or eat documents, especially at the last minute, which has been a continuing hassle with Windows/MS Office on the PC since day one. I am running Windows 7 RC 1 as my primary OS now and have not had to shut the machine down for weeks at a time; Windows 7 promises a much better go around with vastly improved stability and memory management - that OS I heartily endorse. Microsoft gave the people the time to test and tweak Win 7 before cramming it down vendor's throats, what a strange notion, eh?
Customer Review: Installs easy but its still only windows
Summary: 4 Stars
Not a big fan of vista but i've had no problems. works well in my dual boot computer. Kubuntu and Vista Ultimate. if cash is tight learn linuxCustomer Review: Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit
Summary: 5 Stars
Call me crazy, but I have always been a fan of Windows Vista. The interface is finally 'slick', and I have not had a single glitch with either of two computers I have it installed on, that could be attributed to the operating system, (this includes a laptop in which I increased the RAM to 2 gb).
I built a new quad core computer, (with 6 gb of ddr3 RAM), a couple of months ago and saw no reason to stay with a 32 bit os so I purchased the 64 bit version. I encountered no problems intalling the OEM product which included all the drivers for my RAID 5 system.
Some 32 bit apps will not run on this version of Vista, (64 bit). Ex: automatic backup software that came with the network storage unit I was running. NIS runs fine though as well as Office 2003 32 bit version. Also, some web apps won't run but you can run a 32 bit version of IE that gets around this problem.
If you have any questions, pls leave me a comment and I will do my best to help by response.