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MarkCC777 wrote on 7/24/2007, 6:44 PM
I'm currently running Vegas 6 with Vista - Home Premium and have had no problems.

Mark
fldave wrote on 7/24/2007, 7:55 PM
Yeah, but how do you get Vista to run?

Seriously, I got a cheaper Gateway laptop Sunday and can barely get it to run Firefox. Dual Core Intel, 1GB ram, Vista Home Premium. I'm shutting down unnecessary things as I go along. It went to sleep, and when it woke up, I can't get on the internet again. It says "local" only.

Something that took me 15 minutes before now takes me an hour to figure out, if it gets done at all.

Steep learning curve. Do not upgrade your only machine to Vista if you have any work coming up within a month.
jetdv wrote on 7/25/2007, 6:36 AM
The bottom line answer is that Vegas 6 does NOT support Vista. Will it run? Maybe. But if you have problems you have no support avenues.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/25/2007, 7:59 AM
Seriously, I got a cheaper Gateway laptop Sunday and can barely get it to run Firefox. Dual Core Intel, 1GB ram, Vista Home Premium

I've noticed Vista with Aero being sold on Celeron PC's. Is that one? Everyone I've read about Vista running horrible was using a Celeron. Heck, I've seen Celeron's with single core 2.5ghz selling with Vista! Sure, it meets the min's but that doesn't mean it's consumer ready!
Coursedesign wrote on 7/25/2007, 10:43 AM
There have been notebooks sold recently with Vista on Celeron CPUs. These turned into great bargains after installing Windows XP, ideally a ~$130 OEM version bought together with a flash memory key fob.

And weren't there supposed to be downgrade rights in Vista?

Anyone know if this applies to retail, or is it only for corporate contracts?
riredale wrote on 7/25/2007, 12:51 PM
Check the Internet about downgrade rights. I remember seeing a lot of buzz about this a few months ago.

I'm one of those people who bought Toshiba laptops a few months ago powered by a Celeron 1.8 CPU. Just a dog with Vista, but after ripping Vista out and putting in a full-featured XPpro with Office and a host of other programs, the laptops run beautifully and quickly. Check the local specials. Single-processor laptops are going for a bargain simply because most people don't know how well those systems would run XP.

Call me a Luddite if you wish, but after using both operating systems I consider XPpro to be a significant "upgrade" from Vista. It looks more likely as time goes by that my eventual next stop will be Linux. You gotta love an OS that goes by the name of "Feisty Fawn" (Ubuntu).