On Monday, December 25, 2006, 23:49:41, Tony wrote: > My problems where mainly with commercial software. Maybe the software > itself worked but things crashed due to anti-piracy measures. > (hardware keys/dongles etc)
Hardware dongles are something else, and I can easily imagine that they don't work - but that's because 32bit Windows OSes don't let any software access hardware directly anymore (because it's too easy to crash the system otherwise). > Most people buy complete systems (like Dell). Try to find something without > XP installed. > Shortly that will be Vista. (just like half already has a Core CPU) > Vista hardware requirements are high but *not* on the box. There you find the > usual conservative MS specs. > But there is big diffrence between home edition and Premium with that glass > windows. Some time ago (very soon after Vista RTM was released to MSDN subscribers), a few people I know compared Vista with XP on a 1GHz Via C3 system. With all effects disabled, Vista still needed 30% CPU when *idle*, compared to XP, which needed 2-5%.. > About the 5%... Vista isn't really launched for the main public right now. > Like always MS will start heavy advertising and they start to sell. It > worked that way with all Windows versions. It might sell with new systems (because XP won't be available anymore to OEMs), but I doubt many existing customers will switch from XP to Vista. JS>> Intel? Intel was hiding that it's CPUs supported long mode for a long long JS>> time. > The 64-bit CPUs where way to expensive for home use. Until now.... > ATM Intels 64-bit CPUs are about the same price as their 32-bit ones. > So I see no reason to buy 32-bit. My guess is that the 32-bit CPUs get fased > out soon. You're confusing IA64 and x64 CPUs. IA64 was Intel and HP's joint CPU design, incompatible with existing x86 CPUs, primarily meant for server market (where it never really took off). x84 (or, to be precise, AMD64) is AMD's 64bit upgrade to the existing x86 (IA32) CPU architecture. Intel at first didn't want to support it at all, since it didn't see any reason for desktop computing to move to 64 bits, while it wanted it's own IA64 technology for the server market. However, it turned out that AMD's vision was right, and Intel very quietly licensed their technology and added it to the Pentium4 CPUs - but kept it disabled for a long time (and when they finally enabled the long mode on P4's, it was still hard to know in advance if you'll get a 64bit capable CPU, unless you looked really hard on Intel's website for CPU model numbers). > For now I stick with Win XP Pro with classical view because I hate that > gamecomputer interface. You can easily disable useless eye-candy in Vista, too - it's just that there's still so much happening in background, that your CPU is never really idle. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://deepthought.ena.si/ > Government expands to absorb revenue, and then some. -- Wicker's Law ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.95.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
