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So I’ve successfully installed Vista Home Premium edition, what are my first thoughts:

• Menu thing looks ok, and is quite flash
• The laptop works ok, but it seems a bit emotional at multitasking, when I pull up control panel then go start my computer I can sense it thinking “DON’T RUSH ME”
• Windows directory is 7gb, isn’t that a bit much? I mean XP was about 2 wasn’t it?
• Windows at default sitting there with my hands off the keyboard and no screensaver uses 48% RAM, and between 40-100% cpu
• What’s the picture thing, you know the one that changes on my gadget bar? It’s nice but can I have some CPU back instead?
• Is there a reason Control Panel has so many Icons, and sub menus? I mean, Display on Windows hasn’t changed since 95 why change it now?
• I clicked device manager and got told I need permission – I don’t like that – I’m an IT professional….

My windows performance rating as follows:

• Processor 3.2
• RAM 3.9
• Graphics for Aero 1.9
• Gaming graphics 1.0
• Primary disk 4.3
• Overall rating 4.3

Things I love about Vista

• The interface is nice, very cool
• The gadgets thing like google bar is nice – but I suspect on my laptop anyway I’d end up switching it off – the resolution isn’t big enough (1024×768)
• The backgrounds are nice
• Reboots are relatively quick

Things I’m not so sure about:

• It makes my laptop seem old and slow, not being funny but most Intel Mobile chips are around the 1.7ghz level etc, does this mean we’ve changed the ball park recommendations?  I can’t imagine running this on Gerald (Pentium 1.0GHz with 512MB RAM)
• The menu is animated – it’s nice the first time, but I can just sense my video card, memory and cpu complaining in the background…
• Classic view on control panel gives me far far far too many options, ISCSI intiator, people near me, sync center, are these all really control panel items?
• Why does it have to say what version I have installed on the laptop when it boots “Microsoft Vista Home Premium”, it’s nice the first time, then it reminds me of the olden days, when you’d see any car with the plethora of badges GLi 2.0 DOHC – come on boys, very impressive the car has an engine with a cam thingy and it’s 2000cc..
• There is a lack of wow factor that I had with XP and indeed Windows 98/ME. Don’t get me wrong when it first booted up, loaded the welcome screens, the log in, all very impressive, but my laptop started getting emotional when I tried to play a music video with real player and run word at the same time, and my gadget to show performance showed RAM go to say 90% or something, CPU to high, I could sense game over approaching…

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