My new machine arrived yesterday. I ordered a Dual XEON Duo with 4Gig or ram and a 10KRPM SATA drive. It also has two NVIDIA 7600GTs in it to drive my monitors (3 20” LCDs).
I went ahead and move to VISTA Ultimate which went in without any effort. Everything worked nicely and took less time than I expected. The biggest change is that I’m going to attempt (again) to keep all my servers running in VPCs. I looked around the net and saw that VPC 2004 had some issues on Vista so I installed 2007. I think it doesn’t like glass being turned on. I’m cleaning up my other drives (2 SATA drives from my old machine) so I’ll play around with it later.
My impression of Vista is way better than I had been lead to expect from reading the pundits. That just reinforces my tendency to think that Pundits are washed up has beens who are too lazy to actually research what they are talking about. Sorta like I can either be an excellent consultant and software developer or I can be a excellent blogger. Pretty obvious what my choice is.
Oh, and iTunes works fine. I also read a lot of comments about iTunes not working right on Vista. As usual the dorks blamed Microsoft. It isn’t like Apple should take any responsibility for maintaining their software.