David Ross wrote:
Anyone have any comments on 64 bit Vista? I'm thinking I'd like to
run it
on my new T61p,
While we're on the subject of 64 bit OSes, does anyone have any
experience with any of the 64 bit flavors of Linux? I am especially
interested in those that run 32 bit apps and allow them to see more
memory than XP does.
I'm running it on my X61t. At first it was reasonably snappy, but in
the several months I've used it it has really slowed down, despite
regular maintenance/bloat removal/registry cleanups. Unlike earlier
versions of Windows, when the computer is doing something intensive
(like nonstop disk access) I often can't figure out what it thinks it
is doing, even with the help of tools like Sysinternals' Process
Explorer. A lot of software still doesn't support it, including my
favorite firewall, and even MS Endnote (there is no support for
importing a .pdf file into Endnote under Vista64, and according to MS
there never will be). This could just be an MS/Adobe thing (Mike, you
listening?); for example, I have also never been able to get the Adobe
Acrobat "print to pdf" driver working correctly under V64 (it creates
files that are readable by Ghostscript but not by Adobe Reader).
On the other hand, it does use both CPU cores and all the memory, it
runs tablet ops very well, and when I run Linux in a Virtual Box
window it runs very fast.
I can't compare it to Windows 7 because I could never get my copy of
the W7 beta to install.
David
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