Let’s face the facts, Vista doesn’t run very well on mobile PCs. There, I’ve said it. If you have a mobile PC, a notebook, Tablet PC, UMPC or ultra-portable PC, chances are you know exactly what I"m talking about. It is commonplace for users to take drastic measures to get acceptable battery life or system performance, or at least to get the equivalent performance they had using XP. Visit any forum where mobile device users discuss Vista and you will quickly find many expounding on tweaking Vista to get acceptable results. You’ll find suggestions to disable Aero Glass, turn off file indexing, turn off SuperFetch, turn off the Vista Sidebar, turn off shadow copies, and even to turn off User Account Control (UAC). All of these "tweaks" are being done to get good battery life or to boost the performance of sluggish Vista devices.
Isn’t this a bit ridiculous? Why should Vista require the user to disable some of the best new features of the operating system just to get acceptable performance? Isn’t that like getting a Ferrari and installing a governor on the engine to get good gas mileage? Doesn’t that strike anyone besides me as ironic? Microsoft put a lot of cool mobility features in Vista, like the Mobile Device Center and the Tablet functionality for devices that support those features yet the user must turn off core OS functionality to be able to use Vista on most mobile PCs. That is the height of silly from any angle you view it. I hope that the rumored soon-to-appear Service Pack 1 addresses all of these issues and lets mobile users experience the full operating system as it was intended. I am getting sick of reading about all the hoops that users of these cool devices must jump through just to get the work done. It’s no wonder that the President of Acer is disappointed with Vista. That should raise a giant honking red flag in Redmond.
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