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Originally Posted by jaebaby
ok, i just today decided to keep the 2gb ram and 32bit os. but now i'm reading this.... you guys suk! 
seriously, to the ppl with the experience.. if i install 64bit vista will i have issues with software? (mostly adobe/macromedia. i'm trying to avoid getting cs3) will i have daily issues with small programs/shareware downloaded from the internet? (video converting, dual screen software, etc) will i have other issues as well? or is it just the land of milk and honey and there's no reason not to get 64bit os and another 2gb of ram?
i was told by an IT guy that between the driver/software compatiblity issues and the fact that it's a laptop (laptop mobo's not being so good to begin with(?) that there's no real good reason to switch. i'm already taking a leap of faith by leaving xp.
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I use pretty much all of Adobe's software, it works great
The traditional problems are with the drivers, and 100% of them are working with the M1330. The only software problems you can run into is driver-based software which most works on 64-bit now, and 16-bit software. 16-bit software support has been discontinued on Vista 64 but that's the really, really old software. Check to see if you own it.
There's a huge fight among IT guys out there, half say that there's only a performance loss in 64 bit, the security benefits are n/a, the driver support is non-existent, and the memory increase is the only reason, but the world will never use that much. Finally Vista is windows ME over again.
1) Check my benchmark. The old benchmarks are running off of drivers (mostly nvidia) that gave a huge performance decrease on Vista. ATI started making vista drivers years before nVidia. When Vista was released, ATI cards gained, yes gained, about 5-10% performance over vista. nVidia lost 5-10%. Even to today, the hardware manufacturers are using these older drivers. I have yet to see a 9x.00 nVidia driver that does not slow my system. The recent ones give me about 2-5% performance increase overs Windows XP. Keep in mind that nVidia released the 8800 with NO drivers...the silliest thing they've done.
2) Virus writers have written programs to infect certain blocks of memory, not files. This is how every 32 bit or older windows is so vulnerable. Macintosh uses random memory assigning for the OS. This forces files to have to be the target. It's quite a bit harder to do the job in this case. Vista 64 follows in Macintosh's footsteps...need I say more?
3) Driver support IS a pain in the... I will agree here, but once a piece of hardware has all the drivers...all is good. Graphics drivers are where most of us have issues and nVidia is doing a better job there now.
4) Well, Vista is a memory hog. In XP, I used about .5 gigs not running anything, and my max of 2 gigs through games and encoding. I still run 2 gigs on vista 64 and it's no slower...it actually performs better over WinXP. If you think we're not going to need greater than 4 gigs, join the my old club of guys saying we'll never go over 128 Kb of ram in the good old Win 3.1 days.
5) Microsoft was forced to release the source code of Windows 2000, which was immediately stolen by virus writers and hackers, kudos on them
, and shame on the Gov't. WinXP is built off 2000, just given a better graphics engine, so basically, you have open source instructions available world wide on XP. That's why Microsoft is discontinuing the support and pushed out Vista.
Also, Vista has been in development at least since 2001 under longhorn. Software writers have been given Vista for FREE since then. Many would not start writing or think seriously until Vista was in it's final stages. nVidia was taking this stand in October of 2006...after the final build of Vista was released to them. They did not start full development until Feb of 2007. ATI has been on-board since 2001. Many software vendors have been way behind the curve just like this.
Microsoft made a huge code change in Vista. The legacy programs out there might have problems, though they'd rather sue Microsoft over recompiling their software.
Anyhow, I'm stepping off my soapbox.
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Re: Vista 64-bit on XPS M1330
