Guest Ed Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 RE: Vista, XP Pro or XP x64 Pro... that is the question! I have vista on my laptop and was very unhappy with it until I downloaded SP1, which has fixed all the problems I was seeing. I am using Vista business and it is mostly fast enough. The problem is any X64 opsys is that there are going to be some drivers, or applications that will simply not work on it, and we found that on a x64 laptop that just would not work with some of our equipment (USB2 based logging thermometers) because the drivers would not operate on the system. That may be an issue for you using high graphical programs, trying to use devices that may only have x32 drivers. We had problems using Alibre and Solidworks on Vista (mostly vista issues), but found that using XP Pro with a good amount of memory (3GB plus) we did not have problems after that. "Maff" wrote: > hi! > > I'm a web and graphic deisgner who's been "getting by" with XP Home now for > a long time but as I already have a 64-bit laptop, I'm thinking I made the > leap to something more powerful... especially as I've just set up a server > with domain control that XP Home can't log-in to! > > Thing is, I'm wondering what to go for... get an OEM XP x64 Pro, wait for > Vista x64 (when is vista due for general release by the way? and why is it > taking so long for XP x64 Pro to go retail?) or just upgrade to XP Pro. > > If someone could let me know the advantages.disadvantages, costs, wait > times, reliability etc. I'd be very grateful. Thanks > > My laptop is: > > Compaq R3479ea > AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.2Ghz Processor > 80GB HDD > 512Mb Ram (soon to be 1GB) > NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M
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