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Vakas, right now I don't think I can contribute more to your decision making other than to say, if you have a restricted budget, then 32bit home premium would be sensible... but if you don't want to spend money down the road, then 64bit Ultimate would be the way to go.
How much of a gamer are you? Will you want to upgrade to Windows 7? Either way you spend money now or later!
Money is not the issue I just wanted some insight on ther vatious versions and what they will offer.
I am going to go for 64bit vista ultimate I will have to buy a new scanner but i guess you always have to upgrade somrthing when you install a new OS.
Good choice. I should think you will be pleased. It has some nice features built in. Some in other versions and some just in Ultimate.
Good Luck
Thanks will get a copy next week will let you know how i get on. Will need to get a new dcanner too.
Does Vista only use the NTFS file system or does it use something else too?
Nope ntfs only i believe
Thanks for the link.Quote:
Originally Posted by NooNoo
So as well as stability goes will I see any perfomance increase over XP Pro?
Lot of people says it's performance is not as good as XP also it does depend on the hardware you are using too. what do you guys think?
Also how much does a typical install of Vista take up? what would say to be a sensible sized partion to install just the OS on?
Alot depends on how many programs you are going to install. If you want to install plenty of games then at least 50GB... but if it's just standard apps then 30-40gb will do fine.
Performance issues depend alot on the drivers and post SP1 some of the well known ones have been fixed. If you want to get technical read here
Performance is also affected by the video card. Make sure the video card you have is DX10 native and at least 256mb RAM to ensure best peformance.
What other performance areas do you have in mind?
My card is dx10 supported and has 512mb so that should be all good.
Other than gaming I'm just looking at overall operating perfomance, I have noticed wehen having a lot of programs open at the same time or having a lot of web pages open is slow on XP even with a good pc.
Also how are boot up and **** down times right now xp takes quite a while boothing up and does not shut down as quick as it used to.
I'm going the the 64bit version so having a 64bit processor and 4gb of ram should give me a perfomance increase in itself.
I wouldnt install Vista Ultimate on less then 100 gigs.
Vista is like XP the more you add the more it takes to startup and shutdown.
Clean installs start and shutdown fast.
If XP is taking over a minute to shutdown, I bet your profile is not unloading properly - check the event viewer and see what warnings etc you have.
So you think i should give it at least a 100gb? it does not really take that much space over time does I would have thought 50gb would be more than enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferrit
It depends, if you move your folders to another drive (as I assumed you would) then 50GB is more than enough... if you don't and you dump everything in the documents folders, then no, it won't be enough!
What I'll do is install Vista on a 50gb partition and change the locations of the documents folders to my other partition where i will keep my other files.
Also is there anything like partition magic out there that is compatible with vista?