is vista better with 64 bit?

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im looking at a new hp laptop, i dont know the specs really, but it has 4 gb ram, 320 gb HD, some other cool stuff.

i dont even know what 64 bit is, but is vista better with it? i have no choice but to get vista, so i want to make it a wise one.



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NOT on a conventional laptop its not.

On a dual quad Xeon at 3Ghz with 16GB+ of RAM Vista64 hums along pretty nicely and shows some decent audio performance numbers with the right applications. But you need alot of power, and alot of memory to get Vista64 to perform well. Not to mention there aren't alot of programs that are supported to run on it. Best to call your manufacturers to verify compatability first.
 
If you go with anything 64-bit, make sure there are drivers for it. (I know some M-audio stuff doesn't have 64-bit drivers).
 
I don't know about HP but you can still order a Dell with any version of XP you want on it. I wasted a lot of time of vista 32 and don't care about wasting more on vista 64. I'll use XP 64 till they get Windows 7 SP2 which will be a couple years.

You might want to start checking and seeing if you can find XP drivers for what ever you decide to buy.

I've been told by my sales guy at DELL that after June they will no longer offer XP.
 
so is that a yay or a nay....i dont use that much software. just amplitube and reaper.
 
Itll work, but at this point, unless you are using a HUGE sample library and have more than 4 gigs of ram, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose
 
The main thing with vista x64 is that it'll use alot more of your memory. so your 4 gbs will act more like 2. :rolleyes:
 
I've got vista 64 on my comp and I've never had a problem with it (read: it hasn't crashed once, and I haven't found anything I can't do) in most day to day activities but I can't use it for recording because m-audio haven't made drivers for the delta cards yet :rolleyes:

I actually find it quite a bit speedier than XP was and I've only got 2gigs of RAM! It uses RAM better than 32bit, and I don't just mean the fact that it can use more than 4gigs. When you open programmes in Vista64 they stay in memory so if you close and open them again it launches pretty much instantly.

I wouldn't go back to XP for day to day stuff now (my which I mean interweb browsing, gaming, uni work etc) but as much as I like it, I'd stick to XP for recording, at the moment with some of the driver issues it's not worth it.
 
it's true it's true.

Vista wasnt made just to royally piss everyone off, it is supposed to run alot faster and look good while doing it! as long as you allow or deny the change hah
 
Vista or not to Vista that is th ultimate question (pun not intended). I have been using Vista x64 for a while now and have had no deal breaking issues with it. The issues I have had are poor drivers from E-mu, and the in-abillity to rewire reason into a 64bit host. Those are 3rd party problems how ever and not the fault of MS. Out side of that Vista x64 has been great.

Just check and make sure every thing you need to run is going to be compatible and you'll probly be fine.
 
I use a mac for music stuff, but my daughter has 64 bit vista on her homebuilt computer. Everything was fine for a while, and then one day she noticed her (fairly standard) DVD burner stopped working -- the driver was no longer valid, although it had worked just fine before -- automatic update? "new and improved" DRM? I tried replacing it with a plain vanilla DVD drive (reader, not writer) and vista doesn't like that either, so she's stuck without one until we figure it out.

Grrr....
 
I'd stick with XP for a year or so until all the kinks are ironed out of vista. Even if it means buying a separate copy. I wouldn't touch vista with a barge pole right now, but I'm still open to the possibility that it will be pretty good in the future.

The problem with a lot of advancements in computers is the interim period where people are between upgrades before any kind of standardisation occurs. A few years time, and machines with the sort of spec that will make vista fly will be minimum spec for the time, RAM will be even cheaper, hardware manufacturers will make vista drivers as standard, and none of us will be worried about stuff not working or running too slowly.
 
yeah, im still primarily using XP too... you don't want to be always on the bleeding edge of technology because the blood on the floor could be yours... (that was stolen, hahahaha)

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If you're doing anything with video, esp. any kind of HD stuff, stay away from vista.. They went so overboard on trying to prevent piracy, they're forcing hardware and software to conform to anti-piracy policies, which winds up wasting cpu and irritating the user a lot more than it prevents illegal copying.

So I hear anyway.... I'd never actually run vista myself, I can barely stand xp.. If it wasn't for my DAW I wouldn't have any M$ OS'es at all..
 
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