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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: nurseshelly
Updated:06-15-08
Duration of ownership:1 Months
Strengths: Speed, user friendly, backups, media center, very fast start up / shut down, features for business and home, 64 bit capability.
Weaknesses: Had to do some tweaking at first to get it to run correctly, there were some issues with 64 bit software unavailable for some hardware ... now that it is fine tuned, very reliable. Not everyone will want to do the work involved to figure out what is causing the instabilities to fix the problems and make their system stable, I spent several days of being up until 1am with many blue screens of problems to do it. Before fine tuning, was very unstable. This is why only 4 stars ... should not have to tweek so much to get reliable system on a freshly built system with all new "vista compatible" system. Even items that were vista compatible did not always have correct software, some were not compatible with 64 bit version.
Overall Evaluation: Now that we have it all tweeked, we love it, and we do not have any problems with it, very stable. It's a lot of fun and with the 64 bit, I can use all of my installed RAM, it's screamin fast! It was worth all of the tweaking to get here ... but might not be worth the work for some.
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: mcconnell
Updated:04-23-08
Duration of ownership:3 Months
Strengths: Speed, reliable, user friendly, easy media, network connectivity, business features, auto back up, X-box 360 connectivity/ media sharing, work and play features, great for gaming, fast start up.
Weaknesses: None that I have found. Upgrade to Vista!
Overall Evaluation: Everything about this new OS is great! The OS sped up my PC (which previously had XP) and had many new features. Vista is much better for work and play then XP and is definately worth the $$$$.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: Wizkid
Updated:11-25-07
Duration of ownership:6 Months
Strengths: The interface looks nice and Vista is easy to use.
Weaknesses: Vista has lots of bugs in it which can be VERY annoying and it runs VERY slow compared to other Windows products.
Overall Evaluation: Windows Vista Ultimate is a great Operating system. Almost anyone can use it, because of it's ease to use and it looks the best (my opinion) compared to all the other Windows products. If you want to upgrade from Windows XP to vista, I wouldn't recommend that because you don't need to waste you money when your XP has everything it needs to run, and Vista is VERY slow compared to XP.
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Overall Rating
2 Star Review
Reviewed by: terflip
Updated:09-19-07
Duration of ownership:5 Months
Strengths: Nice graphics + a wonderful interface for your entertainment. Lots of security Plesent to look at.
Weaknesses: Eats up the ram, heavey power user, Hard to customize. Takes a lot of time to get acustom to all the features.
Overall Evaluation: I'm a power user for Games and other apps. Procceses that I can't shut down or suspend causes problems Alot of the security features can be shut down or suspended. Overall I found it fun to tackle and learn to make it compatible to my style of play and work. After useing this program, I went back to Windows XP Pro. I had to have a OS that I could control.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: rgpai
Updated:01-10-08
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: good display
Weaknesses: takes more ram
Overall Evaluation: if you want the latest OS then vista ultimate is best..display quality is good if u have good video card..it also has some nice 3d gadgets which makes it unique
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: SkywardSig
Updated:12-09-07
Duration of ownership:1 Months
Strengths: Excellent graphics if you have the right video card. Fun switching between windows with the new Flip 3D. Fun and useful gadgets. Great Backup system if you have an external drive.
Weaknesses: Memory intensive, so buy as much RAM as you can. Security questions with almost every application and operation that you run.
Overall Evaluation: If you want or need to see the latest OS from Microsoft, get Windows Ultimate, but, if you can hold off, Windows XP will be adequate you for a while. I am sure Windows Home Premium will be okay as well, but you do not get the Backup and Restore feature that you get with Ultimate. Restore from Backup is relatively quick if you have a fast computer and External Drive as is the initial backup. Do not pay dollar for what ever OS that you buy. Compare prices online!
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Overall Rating
5 Star Review
Reviewed by: mavx14
Updated:11-30-07
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: DX10, Aero, Bitlocker, UAC, Good multimonitor support
Weaknesses: Needs a modern PC to run.
Overall Evaluation: This is Microsoft latest and greatest and is worth moving up to if you have a modern PC. If you have an ancient one, then you might not want to bother unless you are willing to upgrade it. Most people complain that Vista takes too many resources to run and that is true. But so what? XP used more resources than ME, 2000 or 98. This is how advancing technology works.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: benjithedoggie
Updated:11-23-07
Duration of ownership:4 Months
Strengths: Nice interface, the transparent look, DX10
Weaknesses: Security reminders, cost, no realy special additions for ultimate only
Overall Evaluation: Nice interface, the transparent look, DX10Security reminders are annoying although you can turn them off, cost is high, no realy special additions for ultimate onlyIt requires a great deal of memory and will slow down your computer, very nice graphics though.DX10 Games are just starting to become available.
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Overall Rating
3 Star Review
Reviewed by: rinkugaya
Updated:10-11-07
Duration of ownership:30 Days
Strengths: User Interface, ability to run unix commands, better remote access, ability to create hi-def movies
Weaknesses: Needs an internet connection to validate itself every 6 months, compatibility with older hardware and software..
Overall Evaluation: As I mentioned the OS is super with 3D effects and very good interface. You could even run unix commands. It is more secure. But the major drawback is realetd to the licensing - this needs to be revalidated every 6 months. I had a centrino laptop with 1 gb of ram, but installation of windows vista ultimate nearly used up all resources and I had to revert back to windows XP. But it has been running fine on my new dual core desktop with 2gb ram.
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Overall Rating
4 Star Review
Reviewed by: MasterTactician
Updated:08-12-07
Duration of ownership:2 Weeks
Strengths: New and improved UI, seems to respond faster and the Aero Graphics are a welcome addition.
Weaknesses: That bothersome UAC is obnoxious at best, but at least you have the option to disable it.
Overall Evaluation: Personally, I feel Vista Ultimate is a worthy upgrade from XP, especially as the disk comes with both 32 and 64 bit install disks. However, Ultimate is not worth $400. I paid about $260 for a retail (non upgrade) version, so I'm quite happy with it!
