Vista SP1 is great!

I bought a Toshiba M400 last year and got the Windows Vista Express upgrade disk, but put off install it until now. Did a clean Vista Business (x32) install onto a new 320GB drive then immediately installed SP1 (downloaded direct from MS Download Center). Installation was issue free.

The big benefit is the real dog poor software Outlook 2007 runs a good deal better with Vista. Not quite as good as Outlook 2003, but it runs much better on Vista than it does on XP.

Just a shame the graphic system on the M400 is a little lack lusture when everything else is fairly good! Yes, Vista does need a load more resources than most, but that's the price we have to pay to get MS latest desktop baby.

Overall, I'm now fairly impressed with Vista and how much it has improved since its launch. I agree wholeheartedly that it was a disaster for the first 9 - 12 months, but many of the big issues have been fixed and this service pack now makes it a fairly decent and stable OS. I'm glad I put it off until now as I've seen tons of issues with Vista over the last year with many of my end customers and waiting has meant that the OS is now usable without fear of every mouse click being a potential disaster!

Toshiba M400, Intel Core2 Duo T7200 2GHz, Western Digital 320GB, 4GB DDR2, Crucial 4GB USB memory stick configured to use SpeedBoost, etc. Yip, it is a decent configuration to ensure Vista's needs are well serviced. Ensure you've got a decent system, that is free of malware and Vista SP1 installation shouldn't be a problem ;-).