The first thing I noticed in Windows Vista Build 5219 was the sheer lack of performance. In Beta 1, the AERO interface effects worked nicely. Here, it's sluggish - often skipping frames or being stuck. And this isn't a low-end system either, I'd think 2 gigs of RAM, 15GB of Pagefile, and a Limited Edition of 128MB GeForce FX5700 AGP would be good enough.

Outside of the performance issue, I think there are some really nice improvements. The best of them all (for me) is being able to close the window by simply clicking in the top-right corner (even tho close button is a couple dozen pixels away).

After a bit of work, the sidebar was enabled and seems promising - although there isn't much there to see except a pretty clock, instant search, and an RSS reader. It's a lot user-unfriendly at the moment, but I can see where it's headed - and it's gonna be a real cool thing!

There are some nice improvements in the Explorer too. The progress of your current search or navigation is shown in the address bar. The text becomes virtually unreadable, but the idea is good.

I'm gonna try and install the TV Tuner drivers for my old card, and see if I can get the Media Center functionality to work. Initially, I was planning on installing this Ulimate Edition on my TC-1100 Tablet PC, but with this kind of performance issues, I'm gonna have to rethink it.

More to be posted as I dig in deeper.

Windows Vista

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