Which is better XP or Vista?

Question

I am interested in buying a laptop for my design and animation purposes. Most laptops nowdays come with With Windows Vista..Is it good?

Answer 1

I have tried both and came to the simple conclusion. There is nothing Vista can do that XP can't do better and faster with less hardware. One of the things you will never see from the Vista likers is what it can do better than XP. Even if you consider direct 10X for gaming, using XP in the enhanced mode actually produces a better graphics image.



Take 5 year old PC with XP and compare it with a modern PC with Vista and you'll find the older computer can run all the same software as Vista, but the Vista computer cannot run all the software as XP can. XP with run software faster than Vista given the same hardware.



Microsoft will be issuing another version of Vista that is suppose to be what they previously advertised it to be and resolve all Vista's current problems. It's called Windows 7-or Vista II for those in the industry and it's expected to come out next year. If that is successful, the new OS should be the thing to have. Until then it's XP or OSX with Vista givig users and gamers no reason to upgrade

Answer 2

While I like Xp a lot, with how old it is now I really find it hard to recommend getting unless your budget only allows for a quite low powered laptop.



For Vista to work at it's best, just make sure your laptop has a dual core processor, 2GB or more of RAM, a good speed hard drive (7200rpm drives in laptops are becoming more common), and if it's animation you're doing then a reasonable graphics chipset.



As someone else mentioned, Xp is getting old now and it is possible newer versions of software you use over the next few years may not perform so well under Xp.



Depending how urgently you want the laptop, it should be somewhere between April-June when MS start offering the Free Upgrade to Windows 7 vouchers on laptops so might be worth keeping in mind.

Answer 3

Which is better...



Depends on the laptop. If it was designed for Vista, that will work better. If it was designed for XP, then it will be the better choice.



Vista is a larger program that XP, so it requires more hard drive speed and more memory that XP. On a PC that is low on either, it will run slower than XP. The interface is also annoying, because it assumes you have no clue what you are doing and tries to do things for you.



But as Microsoft has stopped selling XP, and will next year stop updates and supports for it, program creator are not going to continue to write programs that will work with it. Within a couple years you will no longer be able to run the "next" version of you design or animation software. You will be stuck on the current version of the programs.



If you are purchasing new, go with the Vista. Your laptop will be designed to run better with it. If you find you absolutely hate the Vista interface (you get use to it after a couple months), then when the new Windows 7 hits the market later this year or early next, upgrade to that instead.

Answer 4

Vista had many issues...wont use previous application even Micosofts very own stuff..heavy on the photos magnificent icons..takes fairly some getting use to in case you have been using a working laptop or laptop for long. As i realize it domicile windows 7 would be in accordance with Vista with a lot useable stuff bumped off! i'm sticking with XP professional....that's extremely useful to do the comparable!

Answer 5

If it's just for personal use, XP is better. Vista is a bit safer and the start search function is really helpful but it's not user friendly and has a lot of compatibility issues and glitches. One example of it is that your user account becomes corrupted which causes your internet connection not to work, your optical drive not functioning, etc. Vista is only good if you are using the notebook for business purposes b/c it's safer. I work as a tech support for a computer company that's why I know these stuff.

Answer 6

Vista is a decent operating system...more stable now than people say. It's just a matter of if you have to UPGRADE or not...It's going to be way easier, and more secure to upgrade from Vista to Win7 when it comes out, and i'm pretty sure that i've been hearing it should be a free upgrade (Which tells you something about Vista right there) while XP is decent...Microsoft is going to have to stop supporting it soon...which'll drive you nuts when something goes wrong that they can't fix with a simple windows update...

Answer 7

At first I hate it but after understanding some new points to use it, I am in love with it. If you are thinking to buy a laptop so wait until the new version of windows, Windows 7 does not come in the market and then buy a laptop with Windows 7.

Answer 8

for me,xp has a better performance than vista. vista has good looks. xp is faster than vista. that is from what i have experienced because i have a computer with an OS (xp) and it really suites for me. for me,vista is good in looks and it is great for business because i have a business edition vista laptop. it has great themes but it has a very poor performance when it comes to speed. if you play online games,i recommend you to use windows xp. that's all

Answer 9

if you buy a pc/laptop with vista business or ultimate you can downgrade to xp id do it even if you dont get those versions my dads computer came with the basic version then i put xp in it you should see how much more space you get with it but! make sure you can get drivers for xp if you buy a dell pc that shouldnt be a problem they have both drivers for vista and xp

Answer 10

hey both are good. bt it also depend on the configiration wht u have with ur laptop...like for vista it require at least of 1 GB of RAM where as window XP operates in short RAM properly also...

so if ur having gd configuration use vista otherwise window XP with latest version

Answer 11

Windows XP is far better than Vista

Answer 12

After a few modifications to vista e.g. UAC disable, msconfig a few processes



vista is far superior to xp but also depends what kinda of machine your running it on.



my modified vista boot up faster, and responds better than xp ever could and support for direct x 10



at first i thought exactly the same vista is just a peice of bloatware riddled crap but once you use it ull see its much better.

Answer 13

It all depends on whats your need.

for vista you need high configured machine atleast 1 GB RAM.

Lookvice vista is better and also having more facilities.

But XP is best because it satisfies all need for moderate users.

Answer 14

It is turning out that Vista is this generations Mistake Edition. I suggest finding a high spec'd laptop that runs on XP Pro. Xp Pro runs best with 2gb ram. I like Panasonic Toughbooks for their superior reliablity and durability.

Answer 15

There are two main types of Windows users in the world. Which kind are you: Windows XP or Windows Vista? The recent news that testers at Devil Mountain Software found Microsoft's beta of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to be 10% faster than XP SP2 has pushed me over the edge.



I honestly find no advantage to Windows Vista, and there are some downsides. For example, no matter what Vista advocates say, Vista requires Vista-level hardware. Pentium M/Centrino single-core notebook hardware just doesn't run it well. Pentium 4 desktop hardware runs it better, but usually that class of hardware needs a video upgrade. I've personally seen instabilities with the shipping version of the Vista code: applications freezing, Windows services slowing to a crawl, even OS crashes. I'm not saying everyone is having these problems, but I see no real improvement over Windows XP. While the architecture of Vista is a little better, Vista adds a lot of overhead to support quite a bit of new and sometimes questionable functionality. Vista is a lot more complex than Windows XP. It's probably more secure, but it still needs a raft of third-party security software and hardware. I don't trust its anti-malware protection or its firewall. And it doesn't have an onboard antivirus product.



I have five Windows Vista installations. I'm reducing that number to two, one of which will be in a dual-boot with XP. The Windows Vista installation I have on my main Windows machine was a Vista upgrade install, and it's the least stable. That's why it's getting fresh dual-boot clean installs. The other Vista machine I'm keeping stays in the office, where I don't use it frequently. If I need other Vista boxes for testing, I'll set them up as I need them.



The rest of my Windows hardware will shortly revert to pristine Windows XP installations. Windows XP is a mature operating system that's not trying to be something that it's not. The user experience is better than Vista's. There's no "reduced functionality mode" that will inadvertently trip when Microsoft's WGA/SPP servers have an outage again.



I hope to test a later release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, but based on my hands-on use of the first widely distributed beta code and performance testing also conducted by Devil Mountain Software, Vista SP1 is no faster than the original shipping version of the OS. Devil Mountain's report of XP SP3 being faster than SP2 is very intriguing, though. I've been using XP for more than six years, and I'd be perfectly happy to continue using it for another six if Microsoft continued to support it properly.



Until they build something better than Windows XP, I see no reason to switch. As it is packaged today, Windows Vista is not that OS.



Microsoft needs to release a new version of Vista that doesn't stratify the features (why does CD and DVD burning happen only on the Home versions of the OS, for example?). It needs to unload some of the crap it padded Vista with. And it needs to rethink the user experience with respect to functionalities like UAC and SPP. Enterprises aren't buying Vista because it offers very little advantage for them, and end users aren't clamoring for it. Of all companies, Microsoft should know that end-user desire for an OS has a huge effect on how rapidly it's adopted. The company seems to have forgotten its roots.



I have no doubt that Microsoft could turn Vista around if it wanted to. But it would have to own up to the idea that, with its Vista product and business strategy, it's been wrong-headed in a number of ways. I'm not so sure that the current management, as Bill Gates continues to edge toward the door, has the technical vision to make the right choices.



Update: Vista SP1 Dumping the 'Kill Switch' Microsoft is showing one or two small signs of coming around. First it admitted that the WGA breakdown last August that caused thousands of Vista users to wind up being pegged as software pirates when they couldn't activate their copies of Vista was, in fact, an "outage." The company had denied that terminology earlier. Now, Microsoft is eliminating reduced functionality mode -- more commonly referred to as Vista's "Kill Switch." This change will be implemented by Vista Service Pack 1, which is expected to ship in the first quarter of next year.



Bottom line, though, this is a welcome change, but it doesn't materially change the user experience at all. Most of us will hopefully never come face to face with reduced functionality mode. And until we actually test what Vista does instead of the kill switch, I'm not prepared to embrace. The Windows Vista RC1 that I'm looking at now still has the kill switch in it.



CHEERS FOR WIN XP>>>>>>>>>>>>>HIP HIP HURRAY

Answer 16

XP is good because if u use vista its gono slow ur computer

so i think xp is good for ur compter

and other that if in ur pc memory is good then u can use vista onward

Answer 17

Vista is better, as u see companies always upgrade their products, so with that said vista has a lot of new and cool feature which makes it really easy and essential to use !

Answer 18

windows vista is plenty good..plus windows 7 comes out in about a year(and its supposedly the greatest os MS ever came out with) so no matter what OS u get u'll be upgrading soon

Answer 19

xp for performance vista for looks

Answer 20

Yes,now you don't have to be worried about Vista anymore

Answer 21

Well Vista I think, at first it was bad but now i love it!

Answer 22

Surely XP is best.

Answer 23

vista , its even beata for the games :D

Answer 24

XP is better......and popular