I understand peoples complaints about a this article not necessarily being objective and not showing any real data... but how did linux and leopard get brought into this?
I run Vista64 on an x38 chipset mobo with 4GB ram... The system is awesome! I would never go back to XP OR Mac. And for the last time, please stop talking about how windows gets "infections". I NEVER get any viruses because I spent 30 minutes setting up a firewall, anti virus and a couple anti spyware programs to update and run automatically... problem solved! The only BOSD's i get are when I'm playing with my overclock... try doing that on your mac pro.
People say vista 64 is bloated and doesn't run all of your apps. Well, what apps? I'm playing the freakin warcraft 2! So far the only things I have found will not run are my sandbox programs for surfing and rootkit detectors/removers, supposedly none of this is necessary with vista64? As for the bloated thing... this is 2008... spend a few hundo on a decent processor and at least 4GB of memory. the people that have problems on vista are running older machines. once true 64 bit apps are made we will all see how much faster vista is than xp.
Anyways everything runs great and pretty speedy too. My computer doesn't take 40 seconds to get the desktop though, and waking up from hibernate is almost instantaneous! However, I too would like to know if 8GB will help me or not.
to the proud mac pro owner: Get a life. no one cares that you spend $4,000 on your computer and it works real good. I spent a quarter of that and got a machine that is faster than yours... cept yours has twice the cores Oh... or can you make your quads run at 3.6ghz on a mac? It's good to see that when you bought yours you opted not to get the standard HD 2600 pro or whatever (HAHAHAHAHA). Glad to see you still need windows to have fun with your machine... i know you can run multiple instances of photoshop, so, good luck with that. Maybe with the money I saved I'll buy your special lady friend something nice the next time I see her.
I run Vista64 on an x38 chipset mobo with 4GB ram... The system is awesome! I would never go back to XP OR Mac. And for the last time, please stop talking about how windows gets "infections". I NEVER get any viruses because I spent 30 minutes setting up a firewall, anti virus and a couple anti spyware programs to update and run automatically... problem solved! The only BOSD's i get are when I'm playing with my overclock... try doing that on your mac pro.
People say vista 64 is bloated and doesn't run all of your apps. Well, what apps? I'm playing the freakin warcraft 2! So far the only things I have found will not run are my sandbox programs for surfing and rootkit detectors/removers, supposedly none of this is necessary with vista64? As for the bloated thing... this is 2008... spend a few hundo on a decent processor and at least 4GB of memory. the people that have problems on vista are running older machines. once true 64 bit apps are made we will all see how much faster vista is than xp.
Anyways everything runs great and pretty speedy too. My computer doesn't take 40 seconds to get the desktop though, and waking up from hibernate is almost instantaneous! However, I too would like to know if 8GB will help me or not.
to the proud mac pro owner: Get a life. no one cares that you spend $4,000 on your computer and it works real good. I spent a quarter of that and got a machine that is faster than yours... cept yours has twice the cores Oh... or can you make your quads run at 3.6ghz on a mac? It's good to see that when you bought yours you opted not to get the standard HD 2600 pro or whatever (HAHAHAHAHA). Glad to see you still need windows to have fun with your machine... i know you can run multiple instances of photoshop, so, good luck with that. Maybe with the money I saved I'll buy your special lady friend something nice the next time I see her.