It's half hardware issues and half hobby/curiosity I suppose.

With the new machine I just thought I'd start off with a new OS since it's a blank slate. I want to see some DX10 stuff too...

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I have Vista (Business Edition) here on one of my PCs. It's totally not the resource hog people say it is.

It's grand, but I see no need to upgrade. I use a PC for e-mail, browsing, office and coding. XP handles all of that fine for me...

Over the summer when I format my desktop I'll finally put Vista on it (Have my copy from the Croke Park thing sitting there waiting to be used)

An update on my Vista progress...

I've been running it alongside my XP machine for the last couple of months. I finally switched over completely last week. Transferring all my mail and files was easy enough although Dreamweaver had some trouble importing my site definitions and I had to quickly upgrade to CS3 to sort that out.

Vista (so far) on a brand new machine is much slower than my old XP machine which was less than half as powerful. I find that running Dreamweaver CS3 alongside Outlook 2007 makes the machine crawl and often Firefox takes forever to bootup. I'm hoping that SP1 will sort most of these issues out.

I've got an Intel Core 2 Duo (6600), a 750 GB SATA Hard drive and an nVidia 8800 PCE-E card. Now I've only 1GB of Crucial Ballistix Ram and VISTA is a memory monster even with a lot of visuals turned down.

The only weakspot there is the RAM so I have another 4GB on the way. Hopefully this will get the speed back to acceptable levels.

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1GB is the min requirements for Vista, so you should notice the improvement. Have you used the Flash boot facility ? That might speed things up a little in the meantime.

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I will update to vista in a while. Need to buy a new pc first.. no point in getting new stuff for an old machine.... Vista is cool looking though. I never had any proplems with XP so change isnt a major deal for me


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I won't upgrade until I have to.
My PC could handle it, but why should I?
I don't yet see an advantage in using Vista.

I could have gotten Vista free from Dell, I only needed to pay postage, which was too much for me to be honest. I'll stick with XP until I have to change, then I might switch to an alternative.

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Hi There,

I have been using Vista (Ultimate) 32bit edition for the last 4 or so months .
I prefer it over XP and generally I find it a lot faster than XP for most daily applications.

I did notice a decrease in gaming speeds (BF2 fan!! ) but other than that I think its great . Once the graphic card manufacturers get tweaking their drivers it 'should' be up to the same speeds as XP for gaming .

You definately need at least 2GB of RAM with that spec. I would even go for 3GB if you can afford it . Even for XP , 1GB of RAM is not quite enough if you intend on running multiple applications.

BTW it will be replaced in another few years by Windows Vienna.
Windows "Vienna" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kind Regards
Martin

Maybe we could organise a hosters tournament some night ?

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