swimtech

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Voted moving to Vista in the next three months. XP stays on the Athlon 1.2 system. Vista Ultimate (32 or 64 bit, with Ubuntu 64 bit I think...) on the new machine.

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Markius

i voted that i use XP as its whats on my gaming rig
although i have vista on my laptop im not sure how much longer i will own the thing

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Mourgolikos

I have both Xp 32bit and Vista Ult. 64bit but i mostly prefer Xp because of their better compatibility with applacations and old games

BWX

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Still using XP SP2. Will probably go to Vista when I build a new machine, but that might not happen for a while. In fact I might just wait until whatever comes after Vista, "Windows 7" or whatever the codename is... when is that- 2010(ish)?? Who knows.

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OldBuzzard

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I'm running a multi-boot system with XP Pro SP3, XP Pro x64, and Vista Ultimate 64. I'll soon be adding Server 2008 Beta.

I am having a bit of a problem with both 64 bit OS's, but that has only surfaced when I went to 8GB of RAM. With 4GB, all of them are rock solid.

I prefer Vista to either of the XP versions.

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Pluvious

Nope.. and I will never switch. I'll goto Apple before I do.

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Falstaff

that warms my heart....
"sniff"

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Falstaff

I just bought the A305 Toshiba with Vista Premium, do you think moving to a 64 bit version is necessary?

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caqde

64bit OS's are definitely going to be necessary in the near future. You can only do so much with 2GB of RAM for applications(Yes only 2GB not 4GB[2GB applications/2GB OS]). Although currently this limitation effects Desktops far more than laptops because it is easier to exceed 4GB of Physical memory, but that is not the only issue.

As new applications take up more memory eventually the user is going to exceed 4GB of total memory usage while just using the desktop (2GB Application + 2GB OS (Virtual Memory/ Graphics/ Other System memory)). Having a 64-bit OS will allow you to exceed these limitations and allow programs to have access to more memory than it would usually have access to.

Heck it's the future, I don't see why all these companies have been clinging to a dead computing platform for so long.

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Al_Vampyre

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Same here

temeteus82

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How much you got RAM in that thing?

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khelben1979

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I really like your comment! I personally thinks that Vista stinks all the way! It's a bloated system. It's like a hog just draining resources.

Why would one use a system which requires 2GB of RAM to work correctly and 4GB of RAM if one is really serious about good gaming performance? That really sucks!

I use XP because of the games and Linux when I want to do more serious stuff.

Lowfat

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I do not like how there is no poll option for 'Moved to Vista, but then moved back to XP'

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Personally the only benefit I have seen in Ultimate 32bit is DX10, built in DVD burning ability and it's back-up ability. Other than that I fail to see any reason to upgrade.

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RoyBatty

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What is this "serious stuff" that it can't be done in XP? I'm just curious...