Upgrade to Win XP? Yes?No?

[tonester]

Hi:
I run SONAR XL with WinME . I'm curious as to which OS would be better (if any): XP home or XP Pro.
Is XP more of a ME upgrade, or a 2000 upgrade?, or is it a new OS?
I'm curious whether SONAR will perform better with XP (i.e.: less dropouts, crashes, etc.)
Finally, will XP utilize WDM drivers, or MME.

Thanks,

Tony

[AlChuck]

I'm curious as to which OS would be better (if any): XP home or XP Pro.

I don't know... good question.

Is XP more of a ME upgrade, or a 2000 upgrade?, or is it a new OS?

More of a 2000 upgrade.

I'm curious whether SONAR will perform better with XP (i.e.: less dropouts, crashes, etc.)

Probably better than with 98SE or ME; probably about the same than 2000, maybe a bit better?

Finally, will XP utilize WDM drivers, or MME.

WDM all the way. MME is history. There's probably backward compatibililty but no one will be developing new MME drivers anymore, I daresay.

[brzilian]

The answer to whether you should upgrade is whether drivers are available for every single device on your PC and your software works with it.

In my case, there are drivers for my ATI video card, but the application which lets me use all the features of the card (DVD,video capture, TV decoder) aren't available yet, so my card would be pretty much useless in XP.

If you want something better than ME, go with Win2k. Its been out for a couple of years - there is good support and major bugs have been ironed out (already on Service Pack 2).

I GUARANTEE there are pleanty of undiscovered bugs in XP right now that will cause many people headaches until MS decides to fix them. I also TOTALLY DISAGREE with their new online activation scheme - soon we will be paying monthly fees for use of an OS if we don't do something about Microsoft.

Also, XP Home edition, while being based on NT/2000, lacks multiprocessor support. You have to dish out another $100 for XP Professional just to have that feature.

Also, XP is way more vunerable to hacking because of a little thing called the Raw Socket API:

http://grc.com/dos/xpsummary.htm

[A1MixMan]

Good by Win 98SE...

Hello WinXP Pro!

I will be getting WinXP Pro on Oct. 25th
Can't wait!

WDM drivers "should" be alot better.
I have upgraded every time to a new MS OS as soon as it's come out because it WILL be better. Yes there is ALWAYS bugs, but that will not stop me from having the latest and greatest.
Latency is an issue with MME drivers, WDM is made to solve alot of those problems. Leave the legacy hardware and software behind and step into the future. Why wait?
I do agree with brzilian about the online activation scheme but what can I do about it? Keep using Win98SE? Switch to Linux? BEos? MacOS?
NO! WinXP Pro is where I will be. And Sonar XL.

Can't wait!
As far as hacking... again what can I do, I will not worry about it, cause if i'm gonna get hacked, I'm gonna get hacked. I am here to make MUSIC!

What's the point of upgrading to the next generation of Cakewalk (Sonar) and still using an old OS?

Again, I agree with Brzilian, WinXP Pro for multi-processor support is where its at. Yes this can be costly, but, it is worth it to me.

1st step) Sonar XL (done)
2nd step) WinXP Pro (Oct. 25th)
3rd step) Matrox Dual Head video card (on order)
4th step) Second monitor (19 inch, very shortly)
5th step) Dual Pentuim 4 Motherboard and P4's (way off in the distant future )
6th step) ???

Well that's my 2 cents...

Either way, Keep on making music!

Good Luck, A1MixMan

[tonester]

yeah, I think the dual processor thing will be next. Got the SONAR XL, and the Matrox Millenium. (dual monitors rule, by the way)
Oh, and I guess I'll need the XP Pro also......

Thanks for all your replies.

Now if I could only find the time to make some music..................

:-)