Poll: Poll for operating systems in use.

[modo77]

Desktop Vista x64
Laptop Win7 x64

 

[FaceplantSi]

Main desktop Win7 x64
Laptop Win7 x64
Second desktop Vista x64

 

[apatia77]

I have Windows 7 x64/Vista x64 installed, Vista only in case Id have some problems with Win7, which I havent, so I have been using Win7 for the last few months, playing games, watching movies etc, and used Vista 0 times.

 

[V4NT0M]

I use Win 7 x64 and Vista x64 equally.

 

[Mr-White]

XP x64 as a base o/s, with server 2003, server 2008, vista x64 and win 7 as VMs

MW

 

[Burnsy2023]

Surprised by the result so far TBH

Really? This is pretty much what I expected.

 

[Mattus]

Less XP that I'd've thought. Shows that people really have moved on.

 

[Tute]

Surprised by the result so far TBH

Same. I thought with the way so many were hesitant about x64 versions that we'd see the majority with just x86.

 

[snowdog]

My own pc: Win vista x64, but soon upgrading to win7 64bit as build 7600 (final) is out there.

Mums laptop: Vista x86

Dads pc: Xp 32bit.

 

[AMG]

vista 64bit(one in sig) and 32bit( on my old gaming rig)

noticed the win 7 64bit count is only 2 less than vista 64bit

 

[Cosimo]

Main PC - Vista x86 Ultimate
Laptop - XP x86
Second PC - XP x86

 

[CurlyWhirly]

Main PC: Vista Home Premium (64 bit)
Backup PC: Vista Home Basic (32 bit)

 

[wesley]

i am very surprised with high % people here use 64bit.

any reason why i should switch over to 64bit?

is there any decent performance chart difference between 32bit and 64bit for popular applications like winrar, encoding etc

cheers

 

[mrk]

The fact that there are high end apps that are 64bit (Photoshop etc) and some 32bit apps run slightly faster too as well as teh OS using over 3.25GB ram instead of teh 3.25 limit on 32bit.

There's no point installing 32bit on a system that's capable of 64bit.

 

[Aod]

Win7 RC x64 on the Desktop and my work laptop, which will be upped to retail the day it comes out.

still got 32-bit XP on my thinkpad

 

[Destination]

Very intersting results thus far, I know this forum board doesn't remotely sample the average population, but its interesting to see switch uptake of RCs by people. Almost would demonstrate that MS did somethign right for once (ie W7 looks good even before launch)

 

[Voxination]

Vista x64, have been contemplating going to the Win7 RC but I'll be putting that on a new build shortly and I'll see what I think of it then.

 

[TheVoice]

i am very surprised with high % people here use 64bit.

any reason why i should switch over to 64bit?

is there any decent performance chart difference between 32bit and 64bit for popular applications like winrar, encoding etc

cheers

If the apps are 64-bit you may see benefits, but for the most part changing to 64-bit brings nothing except the ability to use more RAM. People keep going on about it like it's going to bring massive improvements to PC performance, but it's not really true unless you're using specific things. I switched to 64-bit earlier this year and there's no noticeable difference between it and 32-bit at all.

 

[.walls]

Desktop - Sabayon Linux x64, 1x Gentoo Linux x64 (virtual), 1x XP Pro x86 (virtual)
Laptop - kubuntu Linux x86 (Jaunty)
Servers (home) - 2x Arch Linux (1x x86, 1x x64), 1x Server 2003 Standard, 1x ESX4i.

No plans whatsoever to go to either Vista or Win 7, although - I did try one of the early beta releases of 7 and was very impressed with it.

I noticed there are a few people quoting their work kit, which doesn't really make sense to me, I mean I know there are people here (myself included) who could say things like XXX Server 2003 EE, XX ESX hosts, XXXX WinXP Pro, etc - which is obviously daft, as you've not bought those. 0.o

 

[EdAllonby]

I've just tried xp x64, it's a shame its not much supported.