IT Queries: Computer problems answered

I’ve been waiting for the Windows Vista service pack to be released before buying a computer. Now that it’s out, should I start looking?

At this stage, no.

The release is only to the manufacturers like Dell and Hewlett Packard so it will take a few weeks, or days in Dell’s case, for these to appear on the market. For the next few months, a lot of computers will still be sold with the original Vista.

The other point to keep in mind is that we don’t know if the service pack will change things much for users. What we do know is some software and drivers that do work in the original Vista are broken by the changes in the service pack.

Our advice at the time of writing on February 5, 2008 is to wait a few weeks so we can get up to speed on what changes and improvements Vista SP1 delivers.

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