I had the fortune to try one of my favorite operating systems again: Windows Vista.
The thing is slow at starting up and shutting down. I was previously a firm believer that Vista was as good as 7, since 7 was just Vista re-branded. Well, it’s not true. Windows 7 is definitely faster than Vista, at least for me, starting up and shutting down. If you do a lot of reboots like me, a slow starting OS can be really annoying.
Otherwise Vista’s desktop experience is as good as 7.
There’s another Windows OS that’s slower than Vista and it’s called Windows 10. There’s a 37 long and growing thread on MS forums about a “100% disk usage in Windows 10”. (Read it here) And this issue doesn’t cause slow startup and shutdown, but rather slow desktop performance, hanging programs, ignoring user input, start menu not responding – it’s horrible and the thread’s posters attest there’s no single solution to the problem.
Windows 10 has been out for over a year now and this issue hasn’t been fixed yet. Every computer I’ve tried with 10 has experienced it, and 38 pages worth of users have experienced it. There’s obviously something intricate to the OS that results in disks, even SSDs, bogging down.
So despite slow startup and shutdown times, Vista at least has a useful desktop. For up to 5 minutes, and at random intervals, Windows 10 doesn’t even let you have a desktop experience. So I come to the conclusion that Windows Vista is better than Windows 10.
500 was a late Core 2 Duo era budget oriented business laptop. What the last R series ultimately failed to provide, however, was sufficient budgeting. Lenovo R61, R400, and R500 laptops could be had for maybe $50 or $70 less than a similarly specced, thinner, lighter, flagship T61, T400, or T500? We’re talking about over $1000 laptops here. Unless you’re a corporate business buying in bulk, you may as well just get the most expensive one and be done with it.
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