14 minutes and 44 seconds. That's how long it takes to boot Vista and get to an email. I waited to purchase my Fujitsu P1610D with Vista Business as I'd read there were some driver issues. I figured if I bought one with Vista pre-installed there'd be no issue - WRONG! The speakers stopped working after I plugged in headphones. Of course the speakers don't run while the headphones are in, but they never came back on. Known issue apparently. I had to download a new driver off the Singapore website as the english one didn't work. And the microphone doesn't work at all - driver to be updated soon....
This is not a slow machine, Core Solo 1.4, 1GB Ram, and Vista on it is unusable. I'm going to phone Fujitsu tomorrow and demand an XP Tablet recovery disk.
I was so frustrated with Windows Vista that I shot a video of booting it up. If you want to watch the whole thing you'll see it takes nearly 15 minutes to get to read an email in Outlook. And i've turned off all the eye candy. All I do is start the machine and click on the Outlook icon, 14 minutes and 44 seconds later I can see an email in the preview pane.
I compare to an old G4 Mac Powerbook and a Panasonic CF-R3, both of which boot and get to email in under 2 minutes.
Vista is ridiculous.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
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