For those who risk becoming blinded and/or deafened by the vista bells
and whistles:
http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/1FE803ADF0486D06CC2573990069A75D
"The bottom line: It's Vista's architecture and feature set -- Barth
cited Volume Shadow Copy, Vista's snapshot service, as an example --
not a lack of fine-tuning or bug fixes that makes it perform poorly on
PCs that run Windows XP blazingly fast."
Frankly, I don't run windows (and wouldn't think of it, except on a
VM), so I don't have any special allegiances to either XP or Vista.
But if you *must* have windows, you should seriously consider XP for
crystallography, especially if you think performance might be an
issue. Also bear in mind that the time between the release of vista
and SP1 was over a year, so performance improvements might be a ways
off if you decide to go with Vista.
James
On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Avinash Gill wrote:
I have been using CCP4MG, Chimera, O for Windows, Wincoot, and the
entire CCP4 suite (including running Refmac and Phaser through the
CCP4i interface) on my Windows Vista laptop for the past 9-10 months
without any issues. It has worked very well for me, and I have found
Vista to be much more stable than XP.
Regards.
Avi.
On Feb 20, 2008 3:11 PM, deena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
I am about to buy a laptop and find that the XP is twice the price
of Vista. Does anyone have positive experience using Vista for
crystallographic packages: CCP4, Coot, O, X-plor? or must I still
avoid it?
Thanks,
Deena
Deena Abells Oren, PhD
Manager, Structural Biology Resource Center
Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY 10065-6399
phone: 212- 327-7429
fax: 212-327-7389
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