Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1 Upgrade
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Windows Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 is the choice for those who want to have it all. Easily shift between the worlds of productivity and play with the most complete edition of Windows Vista. Ultimate provides the power, security, and mobility features needed for work, and all the entertainment features that you want for fun. The most complete choice for your business just got better.… Product details and pricing info |
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23 Customer Reviews Posted
- Vista Ultimate Upgrade
- I waited until Vista was available in a retail box so that I would not have to deal with a large download. Amazon was the first place that had the product available. There are many differences between XP and Vista. Learning the newer version takes a little time but it is well worth it. My boot time is 20 seconds compared to my XP's boot time of 45 seconds. There are many new features in Vista. One of my favorites is the sleep mode with a keyboard wake.
- 2008-05-02, 5 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- SP1 is FREE
- The reviewer below mentions it costs money to upgrade to SP1 that is not true, SP1 is totally free, and downloadable from Microsofts website, this version of Vista has SP1 for those installing Vista for the first time or after a reinstall.
To others that say Vista is a waste of time, that depends on what outdated or slow computers you have, I built a new computer just a few months ago, Feb. of 2008, and Vista smokes on it, I got the 64 bit version, with a 3.0Ghz dual core 2 CPU, 4 gigs of memory for about a month, and everything flew, all games and programs I use, then I got another 4 gigs of RAM for a total of 8 gigs, I can run Crysis, Test Drive Unlimited, Doom 3, Bioshock and many online games at FULL graphics resolutions. I know that the other hardware I have help with making my graphics run smooth, but Vista Certainly doesn't hinder any of them at all and everything runs in Vista, I have had ZERO problems with Vista running any game or other productivity software I have.
So, some of you really should stop trying to run Vista on an XP machine, with 2 gigs of RAM and a 256 meg video cards, if you do build your own computers and buy the right gear, you'll never go back to XP again. - 2008-04-27, 9 of 14 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Upgrade not! (this is a review of the upgrade product-not the OS)
- From the box "You must perform a clean install....unless you are upgrading from...or any edition of Windows Vista." I specifically bought the upgrade w/SP1 to avoid having to download and install the SP separately -- a no brainer for less than $8 difference in price. Currently installed OS is Vista Home Premium base. Guess what? This item can't be installed as an upgrade until and unless you first install SP1! Oh well. Again, the stars are not for the OS but for the "Upgrade" package.
- 2008-04-25, 10 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Will Not Properly Uprgrade from the Non- SP1 Version of Home Premium
- I recently bought this product in an attempt to upgrade my new sony Laptop to 64-bit from 32-bit to take advantage of the 4MB installed memory. According the the statement on the package you can upgrade from Vista home Premium to Vista Ultimate without doing a re-format. First off my new system would not accept the 64-bit disc. I then tried to install the 32-bit disc and it would only accept the installation if I was willing to completley re-format the hard drive because I was not upgrading from Windows Home Premium SP1. This is even though I had dowloaded all the latest Microsoft updates to bring it up to SP1 status. Since it was a new computer and I did not want to lose all the bundled software I opted to return it and remain with what I had. It would not be economically feasible to purchase the Home Premium SP1 Upgrade just to install the Ultimate SP1 upgrade behnd it. Bottom line, if you want to save your programs and files (not do a complete re-format) Ulitmate SP1 it seems will only upgrade from another SP1 product.
- 2008-04-14, 7 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- It's Time to bid Farewell to XP
- You have to admit that Vista didn't get off to a banging good start. Many people thought it was bloated, slow, crashed all the time and the endless stories about those popups that kept questioning you would keep all but the reckless thinking twice before they upgraded from XP. In fact a year after its release it seems only a little over ten percent of the XP users out there have decided to upgrade.
I've been using Vista since it came out and have been very happy with it. Yes you need more RAM than you did a couple years ago, I've got 2 megs on my laptop, which is plenty for Vista Home Premium. And I've got a whopping 4 megs on my desktop, which is running Vista Ultimate and that's way, way more than needed. My computers both seem happy enough and I know they're not fooling me, because when they get unhappy they crash and that's something they haven't done in a long time (three months for my laptop and I think six or more for my desktop).
Is Vista bloated? Yes, sure, that's what happens when an operating systems (despite it's many flavors) tries to be all things to all people. Still, if you don't need the features, don't use them. It's not like todays computers are hurting for hard drive space. With 200 gigs in my laptop and 750 in my desktop, those features I don't use sitting in the background don't bother me at all.
And those annoying UAC (User Account Control) popups and they are annoying, you don't have to live with those. If you've been using computers for anytime at all and have more than a clue about what you're doing, why don't you just turn them off. I did. Just type "system configuration" into Vista's Start Menu's instant search feature. When the System Configuration Utility window opens, click the tools tab, scroll down, click on "disable user control," click "launch", click "okay", then reboot and voila, those annoying popups are history.
Now about the speed, yes, Vista "was" and that's the operative word here as far as I'm concerned, it was a bit slower than XP on my machines, but now thats I've installed the SP1 upgrades on my machines, they both seem zippier. So if you're still using XP and have been thinking about upgrading, now's the time. - 2008-04-13, 16 of 19 people found this review helpful, Rated:
