Since its release, the steady stream of updates have made Windows Vista noticeably less annoying to use. The biggest stride forward was the release of the operating system's first service pack, back in March of this year. Neowin.net now claims that the second service pack is on its way, with the first beta being dropped on testers in the coming four weeks.
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Member since:2006-03-12
lol That is the funniest thing I have ever watched.
The best bit is where you think search is broken and then it finally pops up. On a machine that by your own admission is fast.
I've give you that that start menu is awful fast, but precious little else is, and that's the point, and comparatively slower than XP/BSD/Linux for anything else, and Vista has all these fancy caches everywhere.
Please show the startup time 
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Why is gnome menu have the annoying little pause on it, no matter how fast the machine, I'm sure there are other things, but that annoys me the most.
Member since:2005-06-29
What are you on about? I don't think it's broken, I just typed into the wrong box because I'm an idiot. I started typing in the location field, which opened my default browser. The actual search was instant.
What exactly is slow in the videos?
Member since:2006-12-22
I've looked to your video. Yes, for a cached IE, etc. it works just fine for most user activities. Anyway, the feeling of instant I haven't feel it till I had more than 1G RAM on desktop/server + dual-core on Vista. Anything less was too slow for most users that expect XP instant feeling of todayy. Yes an OS from 2002. Secondly as an user I see that you use only one application (give full amount of caching). For now I have at least one browser, one flash app (youtube 
), one .NET application I work on, two Visual Studios, messenger on Vista Home Basic with disabled all effects. Ram usage: 1.87G. Putting that on your laptop (my laptop is somehow worse but have the same amount of RAM) will make your laptop to access more often the disk, and that on a laptop it hurts. Vista in my machine gets from scratch 500 M, and with most usage have take around 1.2 G and jumping to 1.5 limit is just a bit. Having XP, will mean the same thing minus 250 M, and the feeling will be a much more responsive system. That happen on games, any power user that open a multifile document (even a big book), Photoshop, etc.
So, I am agree, for your usage, probably you may say once that IPhone is a desktop replacement...
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2005-06-29
Let's make it real, then. Here are two videos I just shot and uploaded to YouTube. Quality is crappy because I'm using a digital photo camera here. Just to give you an idea.
Part I:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YR9GDNdgh5M
Part II:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fPAnuQzAnMo
Have fun.