Thinking of Vista..

platypus

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I'll definitely be getting a 64bit version, but am after a bit more application advice.

Not decided between ultimate/home premium yet, anyone have experience of both? Is Ultimate overkill?

Just wondering what peoples experience of things like Photoshop, 3dmax, Maya are? I also need to be able to log into my pc remotely from work, anyone here use uvnc on vista?
 
you could use remote desktop (part of ultimate and business)

vnc does work fine on vista though

make sure you get 4gb or 8gb ram, with at least dual-core




home premium doesn't have remote desktop (without a hack anyway), but has media centre
business has remote desktop, but NO media centre

ultimate has both, but has a load of other crap bundled in too..
 
See comparisons here...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx

Home premium suits most people, other then those that need the business features, or there's ultimate which obviously has the features of both Home and Business versions.

NOTE: I'm using Vista Ultimate on 3 PCs here (thanks to friend in the trade), 2 of which use 2gb (1 uses 939 rig standard DDR - the other on DDR2 core2 rig) and they don't struggle at all.

2gb is fine, depending on how much junk you have running, just do the XP routine, check the startup apps (msconfig), services.msc (shut off what you don't need) and you'll not have to worry about having large amounts of ram.

In any case, if you can grab 4gb (cheap still) then do so, it's nicer (4gb in my personal rig) but my no means essential. Would be better for the aforementioned apps though i'd imagine.
 
I looked at the comparisons, but they're so generic, was after just a bit more "personal experience". I think Home Prem is probably the one I want, as I have my own backup software, and doubt I need bitlocker. Cheers :).

I'll be getting 8gb of ram as it's so cheap at the moment (2x4gb matched kits), and I want to do a lot of rendering.

I'd quite like to run Vista without a page file (or as small as possible), is that even possible?

Weird, Vista is £160 from the microsoft website, but £62 from ocuk.
 
platypus said:
I'll definitely be getting a 64bit version, but am after a bit more application advice.

Not decided between ultimate/home premium yet, anyone have experience of both? Is Ultimate overkill?

Just wondering what peoples experience of things like Photoshop, 3dmax, Maya are? I also need to be able to log into my pc remotely from work, anyone here use uvnc on vista?
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Been running x64 Ultimate for the past six months and have been impressed with it. It runs Adobe CS3 fine, although there is an issue with the unpatched version of Acrobat 8. Installed Maya the other night and it seems to work fine - there's even a 64-bit build of it - but no idea how to use Maya (learning at Uni) so not really sure if it's functioning properly!

IMO Ultimate is overkill - you get everything you need with Home Premium.
 
I'm not sure if UltraVNC works on Vista or not, but let me know if you want a license for VNC Enterprise Edition, I can probably sort you out :)
 
I actually used 64-bit Basic on my last builds, the first thing I do with Aero on Business/HP is turn off transparency / glass and active thumbnails so I might as well (and don't use anything else in HP).

I'm probably one of the few that gets Vista and immediately turns off all the shiny bits :D
 
Tetras said:
I actually used 64-bit Basic on my last builds, the first thing I do with Aero on Business/HP is turn off transparency / glass and active thumbnails so I might as well (and don't use anything else in HP).

I'm probably one of the few that gets Vista and immediately turns off all the shiny bits :D
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Well I'm reading some guides about stripping stuff out if Vista, got my copy today so I'm going to play about with it and try to see how slick I can make it.

Dracata said:
I'm not sure if UltraVNC works on Vista or not, but let me know if you want a license for VNC Enterprise Edition, I can probably sort you out :)
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Thats very kind, I'll take you up on that :).
 
also...

not so much an issue now, but will be in the future.

Home Basic is limited to 8gb ram
Home Premium is limited to 16gb ram
and both are limited to one cpu (multi core is fine)


business, ultimate and enterprise support..
128gb
multiple cpu's

platypus

if using vlite..

for the first run, just remove things like languages for the first run, and try vista out
 
I use tightVNC to get to my computer when I'm out works perfectly fine with vista :)

I don't know about the other programs though but I'm sure they'll be fine by now.
 
bledd. said:
also...

not so much an issue now, but will be in the future.

Home Basic is limited to 8gb ram
Home Premium is limited to 16gb ram
and both are limited to one cpu (multi core is fine)


business, ultimate and enterprise support..
128gb
multiple cpu's

platypus

if using vlite..

for the first run, just remove things like languages for the first run, and try vista out
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Cheers bledd, running on a quad core intel atm so that will work fine.

Wasn't sure if vLite works with Vista or not, but great news that it does :).

Can I...use vLite now (at work) to build an install of Vista for when I get home..?
 
bledd. said:
would work fine

it's pretty cpu intensive and needs a few gb free on the temp dir drive
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Sweet, Ive got a box doing nothing. Going to investigate :).

Well, I was going too but the WAIK is 1.4GB!? Not sure work would be too keen if I downloaded that.
 
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