wouldn't recommend buying Vista by itself, but rather to wait for when you need a new computer.
There is seriously nothing Windows XP does, that Vista doesn't do better. I mean it.
The *only* machine I run XP on, is a Pentium III server and that's because it's too slow to run Vista. All my machines run Vista as a preference, and those that are servers run Server 2008; which might as well be Vista :D
64-bit Vista can be very usefull, if you're not a n00b. See, Windows XP and 32-bit Vista can only accept 3Gb of RAM, but 64-bit Vista accepts infinitive RAM, so if you think well and have a double-core processor, then 64-bit Vista can be very usefull (especialy if you're a passionate gamer).
Correct, you are wrong XDI thought 64 bit was crap for playing games on?
I might be wrong
Correct, you are wrong XD
64bit plays all games just fine ~<3
Yup, XP x64 was crappy for pretty much everything, but Vista x64 is just lovely (Provided all the drivers you need are available)
How is it pointless? I've got 8GB of RAM. Guess that makes x64 pretty useful :3WRONG. You'll find XP x64 to be just as good as Vista x64. XP x64 was just way ahead of it's time, even now some hardware doesn't have 64 bit drivers.
I've used XP x64 before and it just felt like XP to me, gaming way perhaps even a little faster.
Hint: x64 is pretty pointless at the moment.
How is it pointless? I've got 8GB of RAM. Guess that makes x64 pretty useful :3
WRONG. You'll find XP x64 to be just as good as Vista x64. XP x64 was just way ahead of it's time, even now some hardware doesn't have 64 bit drivers.
I've used XP x64 before and it just felt like XP to me, gaming way perhaps even a little faster.
Hint: x64 is pretty pointless at the moment.
I had no end of troubles with Xp x64. None such exist for Vista x64, so no XP x64 is not just as good as Vista x64.
And x64 is not pointless at all. Its more stable, and I get to actually use my 4gigs of ram instead of 3.3~gb
It's silly to assume that just because you don't do anything that utilizes more RAM than what you have, that there must be nothing out there that does.What, so you can brag that you have 8GB of RAM? Typically unless you're doing 3d rendering, video/audio editing etc (or playing CRYsis) you'll never need more than 2GB. Other than that there's not a lot else to offer.
Remove your graphics card and you'll see more.
And how do you use this 4gigs of RAM? 1000 tabs in Firefox perhaps.
It's silly to assume that just because you don't do anything that utilizes more RAM than what you have, that there must be nothing out there that does.
Wrong.
Supreme Commander and Oblivion on the game side; Hardware-based Virtualization on the app side. I run four monitors. I can run three slave OS's each with 2GB of RAM allocated to each, and a CPU core, and it's silky.
Software development eh, nice.
Oblivion doesn't use that much surely, unless you've got some high-res texture mods?
And I only said remove your GFX if you wanna see more RAM, obviously you wouldn't do that...