Newlin
[SeeD]
June 18 2009 1:11 AM EDT
Newlin
[SeeD]
June 18 2009 1:47 PM EDT
Anyone? Should I go with XP or 7?
QBRanger
June 18 2009 2:26 PM EDT
Likely anything but Vista.
Seeing as the Windows 7 release candidate is free, why not give it a shot?
Thak
June 18 2009 2:38 PM EDT
Bah 7 is Vista under another name with a service pack same OS's
Thak your absolutely wrong.
Windows 7 is build up around a complete different code then Vista.
Its uses less resources and is faster then Vista.
Ow and people saying Vista sucks don't know what they are talking about. Vista only runs horribly on an older machine. Vista is great for dual and quad cores and runs better then XP on it. And of course DX10 support is always handy.
The only big drawback I found is the UAC of Vista, but that can be easily disabled.
Cube
June 18 2009 2:44 PM EDT
7 is what Vista should have been. It's actually very nice, and I only have beta.
Newlin
[SeeD]
June 18 2009 2:44 PM EDT
I think I will go with windows 7 for now then and see how it works out.
ow and WindowsXP x64 <-- horrible driver support
Windows 7 x64 <-- also horrible driver support since most of the drivers are in alpha or beta stages.
I would go winxp 32bit until Win7 comes around
Or take Vista64
Demigod
June 18 2009 2:44 PM EDT
DOS Shell. It's coming back in style.
Otherwise 7 RC.
Thak
June 18 2009 2:48 PM EDT
I have never had a problem with Vista. Turned off a few useless services i didnt need and runs smooth, on my laptop even.
AdminShade
June 18 2009 2:49 PM EDT
I've never had any problems with Vista either, the big advantage of my PC is that it's pretty much brand new...
ow and question why a 10.000 rpm hdd?
Rather take two Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3500418AS, 500GB drop them in raid 0 and they are faster then a single hdd.
And its less $ per GB
bartjan
June 18 2009 2:58 PM EDT
Why would you need a 64 bit OS to take full advantage of the RAM?
4GB RAM, 32 bit OS:
bartjan@fenchurch:~$ uname -a ; free -m
Linux fenchurch 2.6.29-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Apr 17 15:31:25 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3986 2397 1588 0 231 1310
-/+ buffers/cache: 855 3131
Swap: 1023 0 1023
bartjan@fenchurch:~$
QBsutekh137
June 18 2009 2:58 PM EDT
I am running 64-bit Vista, SP2 on my iMac, and it is working pretty well. Didn't even need to use Boot Camp other than to make the initial partition (and wouldn't have needed it for that, even). Using rEFIt to control booting and found all the drivers I needed for networking (including wireless), sound, and high-quality video. My lowest Vista user experience index score is 4.8 (video) with everything else being above 5.2.
Shared an external drive as NTFS, and can read it on both the OSX side and the Vista side, meaning all my music is shared without need of a networked drive solution.
Not saying it was easy, took a whole weekend, with Vista needing something close to 150 updates (no joke) after being installed. But now I have everything on there and Vista seems to be running pretty well.
FYI, I only used Vista because Win7 RC did not run very well at all due to not being able to find good drivers. I would say in 6-9 month, I could probably install Win7 over the top no problem and be able to find drivers for the Mac hardware.
In any case, Vista seems to be doing pretty well.
@bartjan, well because a 32bit windows OS can address more then 3.2GB of RAM.
There is a hack for windows 32bit that does that, which probably the same piece of code for that 32bit linux your running.
And to be fair, linux is not for the mainstream user. More for techies.
uh 32 OS can't address more
QBsutekh137
June 18 2009 5:32 PM EDT
I can also verify that 32-bit Win7 (on the Mac) with 4 GB of RAM showed 3.98 GB in use.
Strangely, when I installed 64-bit Vista, it showed 4.09 GB or so.
The number went up, and...ahhhh, found this article on it, though not sure how that applies to bartjan's "bigmem" build:
http://www.vistaclues.com/reader-question-maximum-memory-in-32-bit-windows-vista/
Long story short -- the only way to fully have the 4 GB totally usale in Windows is to have a 64-bit version of Windows. Otherwise it will only see about 3 GB...
In use or displayed in system info? IIRC, Vista32 SP1 and later display the correct installed amount of memory in system information, but remain unable to address it all.
QBsutekh137
June 18 2009 6:03 PM EDT
I think that is correct deif...and I think it displays X minus other addressing in use, such as for vid cards, etc. (depending on hardware...)
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