[MarioJP]

All i have to say is my experience with vista 64 is like xp32 except with extreme ram upgrade no more the 2-3gb barrier. And what a perfect timing too because this also effects the video ram on your cards as well. And SP1 has finally got 64 bit going. Never again do i have to settle for a 32bit os. And additional to the 64 it also supports 32bit so all your 32bit apps will run just fine on 64. The only compatible issue i ran into was my scanner but thats only because there is no vista drivers for it and that scanner is very old. But a quick fix for that is install xp on a virtual machine and problem solved.

But for the most part everything just went smoothly that i no longer need xp anymore. I have no use for xp other than for troubleshooting purposes for customers.

Don't get me wrong XP did a good job for the 32bit era. But thats it i mean we are in 2008 and ram is so dirt cheap nowadays that holding on to 32bit is becoming less and less. For a start i can see all my 8gb of ram which is 100 bucks for 2x2gb sticks. Since today motherboards can handle up to 8gb of ram i just decided to max it out because of the price. And now i have 8gb with vista ultimate oem 64. Since then i haven't looked back at xp.

The only compatible issue i ran and stated earlier was my visioneer scanner but thats only because its a "discontinued product". But for everything else not a dam problem.

Even my old legacy games and apps works fine under vista 64.

Speaking of virtualizations i think its a good way to hang on to legacy software while still going forward. Now if you have programs that requires 3D acceleration than dualboot is your last option. Until there is a fix or a update or when your ready to upgrade your apps. But for the most part virtualization can fill in the gaps. I only use it for my scanner and troubleshooting.

[rtfire1]

wow I love xp 64 I have had no issues other then the no audio problem I have due to there being no audio drivers for xp at all. thats what you get for 720p and 1080p and 7.1 audio out of a laptop thats cutting edge as of 11/30/07 (bought in late december for under 700.00 bucks). i use xp64 for video editing and thats the only time its faster then vista 32 I am hoping to get a 300gb drive to put in my other hard drive bay on my laptop so I can install vista 64 on it and triple boot my system. I do have to say 4 gb upgrade i did from 2gb really did speed up my laptop in vista 32 (and I thought it was fast before).

[MarioJP]

from what i heard is that xp 32 and xp 64 are totally separate products which xp64 was mainly designed for commercial and i never really seen it made it to most consumer base And i also heard that xp64 is not a true 64bit os I dunno. What stopped me from going to xp 64 was because most users had issues from sound mainly and certain type of graphics cards not working properly. The big hurdle for xp64 were the drivers.

[piyushsingh]

i agree with you on this. I, till date havent even seen an xp 64 running in front of me , while i have so many of my friends running vista 64. The time frame does effect this a lot .

[rgreen4]

You may convince me to try the change. I don't run a lot of weird programs, mostly Office2007 which I would expect to run, Adobe Reader, Quicken2008, Acronis True Image for cloning, Ulead for when I get around to editing commercials out of recorded TV shows, Firefox and Opera. Since my friend Piyush is running Vista64 I'm sure Opera runs ok.

I may have to contact MS and see what it would take to upgrade to Vista64, this is currently an OEM Home Premium 32 bit version. Not a factory build, my build so it had a good clean installation.

[rwexelblat]

There are two types of people in the world: those who like to divide the world into two types of people and those who don't. --Robert Benchley

[GMan]

Hi MarioJP,

A guy I work with built a killer gaming rig with Vista 64. He loves it. I'll try to get the specs from him.

G-Man

[piyushsingh]

Its really bad that you compared it to something like this.

[GMan]

[~71480] : Your post was neither offensive nor divisive! The guy is brain-dead!!

Do not be dissuaded from posting your intelligent comments!

G-Man

[rgreen4]

I think he was trying to point out something about Piyush's siggy. It is not in context on any of his posts or his siggy either which of course is an inside joke in the computer field. It left me scratching my head.

[piyushsingh]

@ Gman & rgreen : :p