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After I upgraded my machine at home at the end of last summer, I went ahead and gave MS a bit of my money and bought a copy of Vista Ultimate. Yeah, I know, but it's my money. I got the retail version because it comes with both 32 and 64 bit media, and I wanted to play around with it.
After having Vista on my laptop for six months, I knew the ins and outs, what services to kill, and what interface tweaks to make for my own personal comfort. The one thing the laptop doesn't have is 64bit. OEM versions only come with one or the other, and Dell ships 32bit by default (and makes it difficult to get 64bit at that).
Having run the 64bit version on my desktop? I'm ready to dump the 32bit completely. The only hardware problem is that I have one piece of hardware for which there is no 64bit driver (which is really weird, since the 32bit driver for it is supplied by MS). It's an older video capture board that I don't really use anymore since my camcorder does FireWire, so it's not a loss I'm terribly concerned with. The 64bit version is faster, stable, uses all 4GB of the installed memory, and runs most of my software. The bits stopping me from dumping the 32bit partition are Studio and Nero. I'm running older versions of both, which support Vista 32bit. In order to get 64bit support, I need to upgrade, which I don't really want to do right now.
I also want to move my office out of the basement to the empty bedroom upstairs, but don't really want to run cat5 and coax all over the house to do it. If the Cabling Fairy wants to do it for me, that'd be awesome.
After having Vista on my laptop for six months, I knew the ins and outs, what services to kill, and what interface tweaks to make for my own personal comfort. The one thing the laptop doesn't have is 64bit. OEM versions only come with one or the other, and Dell ships 32bit by default (and makes it difficult to get 64bit at that).
Having run the 64bit version on my desktop? I'm ready to dump the 32bit completely. The only hardware problem is that I have one piece of hardware for which there is no 64bit driver (which is really weird, since the 32bit driver for it is supplied by MS). It's an older video capture board that I don't really use anymore since my camcorder does FireWire, so it's not a loss I'm terribly concerned with. The 64bit version is faster, stable, uses all 4GB of the installed memory, and runs most of my software. The bits stopping me from dumping the 32bit partition are Studio and Nero. I'm running older versions of both, which support Vista 32bit. In order to get 64bit support, I need to upgrade, which I don't really want to do right now.
I also want to move my office out of the basement to the empty bedroom upstairs, but don't really want to run cat5 and coax all over the house to do it. If the Cabling Fairy wants to do it for me, that'd be awesome.
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Oh, wait... you said CABLING fairy. Never mind.
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