what vista flavour?

ushere wrote on 6/18/2008, 2:58 AM

more curiosity than anything at the moment - want to see where vegas goes, but in the meantime, if i was going to look at vista, which version should i look at to;

a. run my normal editing tools (vegas, ps cs3, sf, dreamweaver?

b. 32 or 64?

c. small home network, nothing too complex - perhaps rendering...

thanks

leslie

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blink3times wrote on 6/18/2008, 3:48 AM

I have Vista 32 and 64. IMO , there is just not enough of an excuse to jump from xp32 to vista 32.
Vista 32 works but there really is no serious gain over XP so it's probably more of a waste of money.

With Vista 64 you have the gain of addition memory (More memory is almost always an advantage). Not withstanding, you will be able to run Vegas 64 (when ever it decides to come out).

Personally, I think the question is a no-brainer.... either go with V64, or stick with xp.

ushere wrote on 6/18/2008, 5:06 AM

thanks b3t,

but which (64) version, home, premium, ultimate?

leslie

Xander wrote on 6/18/2008, 5:25 AM

I run Vista 64 Home Premium. All my Adobe, Sony and other software runs without issue. All hardware works perfectly too.

Kennymusicman wrote on 6/18/2008, 10:38 AM

Benefits of Biz and Ultimate - built in, and decent backup/restore
Benefits of home premium and ultimate - media centre

There's more to it than that - but that covers about 95% of the people I deal with...lol

fldave wrote on 6/18/2008, 11:03 AM

Run vista on a laptop, 32bit. Hate it, hate it. That machine cannot communicate with my network of other XP machines, which all work fine. It is invisible to my XP machines also. However, my neighbor can get into my laptop, but I can;t.

It runs Vegas 8 fine, used it to capture a concert, 8 tracks through a Presonus FP10 via firewire, at 24bit/96Khz. No glitches. I have to hook up portable hard drives to move files from laptop to my main network. PITA.

I'd wait 12-18 months until the next Microsoft OS comes out in stores.

jwcarney wrote on 6/18/2008, 12:17 PM

I agree, vista 32 not worth the upgrade. Go 64 or stay with xp.

warriorking wrote on 6/18/2008, 12:56 PM

Go with 64Bit, been running Ultimate for over a year without a single problem or crash, Love it...and with Vegas 64Bit just around the corner, life is good....

Vista Ultimate 64Bit
8Gig RAM
Q6600 Quad
Vegas 8 Pro

blink3times wrote on 6/18/2008, 3:16 PM

"but which (64) version, home, premium, ultimate?"

I'm running ultimate which certainly has it's pros/cons just like anything else. The security is much tougher for one thing. It is however trainable and you can pretty much get it to work entirely in the background and not bother you.... until you figure out how to work it all though.... it can be a bit frustrating.

Ultimate also comes with a DYNAMIC disk routine which I use quite often. It's like an undo-able software RAID system you can use to span multiple drives to form one partition.... great for capturing uncompressed avi. And then it can be undone back to single drives just as easily as you spanned them. The other little extras I can take or leave, but this feature in itself (I think anyway) is worth the extra money

farss wrote on 6/18/2008, 5:11 PM

As I'm building a new system I've been doing a bit of research. This whole "64bit" thing is a bit of a crock and the problem starts with the hardware design and the costs. It'd be nice to have a true 64bit hardware platform but I can't see us paying for it, moreso when 98% of us will be happy enough with the current dog's dinner of hardware and software.

Bob.