After a good few weeks with an enjoy­able exper­i­ence, I wasn’t really expect­ing a BSOD to hit me in the face. Inter­est­ingly, when Vista rebooted, it kindly offered to try and solve the problem.

After a year over it’s offi­cial launch, though, I think it’s finally ready for con­sumer use. Before was a mine­field of shattered expect­a­tions and defunct drivers; now it’s so much more able and auto­mated. There are a few minor things that still annoy me but there are many things that amaze me with it which make XP look pathetic and humor­ously basic.

With Vista’s new price drop and SP1 around the corner, any­one buy­ing a new com­puter should def­in­itely con­sider Vista.