TravisO Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I grabbed SP1 when the original RTM leak happened, so I've had it installed for almost 14 days now. It's a dual core Athlon laptop /w 1gb of ram and iirc a 6xxx Nvidia. I have Aero and the Widget Sidebay disabled, which are the two biggest reasons for Vista "bloat".My wife uses the laptop and I noticed when she plays 2nd Life in a Window, after SP1, it nearly doubled her frame rate (but it worked fine in fullscreen). File copying across the network seemed faster (as it's suppose to). She uses the laptop easily 8hrs a day total, so I'd say SP1 is both stable and good.I didn't make it a point to do before/after benchmarks, I'm talking purely as a "how it feels" experience. I haven't been the biggest fan of Vista, but I'd say between disabling those two features and SP1, Vista is not that bad actually. I plan on running it on the new desktop I'm building. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 Made the plunge and moved to vista 64 bit, C2D w/ 4 gig of ram. everything flies, they only item i could not get working was my old creative webcam (driver issues and wasn't supported or going to be) got a cheap live cam and it works good. games are fast, response times in all applications are amazing. i have yet to run into an app that i cannot run which suprised me the most. Anyone on the edge, take the plunge it is worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 (edited) Downloaded mine from MSDN ("Top Downloads").The full SP1 integrated DVDs are being posted to MSDN now. I'm currently downloading the x86 Business/Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate ISO (it's the only one currently available). Edited February 25, 2008 by nmX.Memnoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 The full SP1 integrated DVDs are being posted to MSDN now. I'm currently downloading the x86 Business/Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate ISO (it's the only one currently available). Eew... 32-bit. The only reason I've got that on my laptop is because my CPU doesn't support 64-bit... all my other systems are getting moved to 64-bit Vista SP1 when I get some free time this term... likely in May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 ive been running ultimate 64bit sp1 on both my laptop and desktop for about 2 weeks now and i like it alot. especially the increased network transfer speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Access Denied Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I just installed it about 3 days ago and WOW! My pc got an adrenaline injection from SP1. Its an older P4 3ghz HT with 2GB of old DDR 400 but its now really better running Vista Business than before SP1. I haven't a single bad word regarding SP1 (RTM). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war59312 Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Well, if I install SP1 on my asus laptop it will boot up only once and then if you shut it down and then boot back up, you cant. It blue screens with an error about the registry being corrupted.I've confirmed it 4 times in a row, Microsoft is working on a fix. Then again I notified them about it during the beta too (over 6 months ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kutster Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 (edited) Got a download finally Did a total clean install installed drivers then SP1. Haven't had much time to play with it but just under 45 minutes to install! They better slow for the buying of the updated disk similar to what they did with the 64bit editions. They should make the disks free do to the fact they removed slipstreaming capability from it. Edited February 26, 2008 by kutster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmokingman Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 I have had SP1 since they released it on connect. I enjoy that Vista is now a little more faster. The only thing I didnt like was how long it took to install SP1 on Vista RTM. I was glad when MSplaced a ISO of Vista with SP1 intergrated, on connect so now I do not have to install SP1 on tomy RTM Vista. I do not like the way you have to intergrate SP1 to Vista seems like to much work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Devil Posted February 27, 2008 Share Posted February 27, 2008 still hasn't tested on my s/mtried to do in VirtualBox but the guestadditions not supported (probably drivers not signed)running on vgasave driverand goin to vlite it and test on my s/m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grake Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Notice a definite change on speed I used Vista before, then went back to XP cause it was so sluggish. Installed Vista with SP1 now, things just pop up! The only thing I hate about it is that I can't change the user document location like I was able to in XP. Too many registry settings to play with and I don't feel like doing that. Rather just point a folder to another drive. Oh well, can't have everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaddawkins Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 my antivirus , McAfee enterprise runs a lot smoother, of course I'm not sure if this is due to an update with McAfee or SP1I don't have superfetch crashes like i was having with RTMdoes seem to be betterHow much hard drive space does SP1 eat up anyway? Just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaithg Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Notice a definite change on speed I used Vista before, then went back to XP cause it was so sluggish. Installed Vista with SP1 now, things just pop up! The only thing I hate about it is that I can't change the user document location like I was able to in XP. Too many registry settings to play with and I don't feel like doing that. Rather just point a folder to another drive. Oh well, can't have everything.Unless I am misunderstanding what you are trying to achieve, you can still relocate your documents folder quite simply:-From Explorer:Select your "Documents" folderRight ClickSelect PropertiesSelect LocationChange to another location as required.Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 I'm currently downloading the x86 Business/Home Basic/Home Premium/Ultimate ISO (it's the only one currently available).Eew... 32-bit.The x64 DVD is now available on MSDN (at least for VL subscribers...not sure about everyone else). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexusbas Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 good day! anyone got the link for the sp1?THNAKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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