Vista Premium or Ultimate?

[Yan816]

I am looking at moving over to 64bit Vista, Can anyone tell me if there is a big difference between Premium and Ultimate? I use my rig mainly for gaming. I also heard that there were problems with X-Fi sound cards. Can anyone tell me if they have been resolved? Especially the problem with using optical out to surround sound speakers? I really would appreciate any help given. Thanks.

 

[Glaucus]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

home premium should be fine unless you want something in that list.

 

[modo77]

I wouldn't bother with ultimate (unless you really need something it has as acidhell says). I made the mistake of getting ultimate and the only thing I ever use which isn't in Home is the poker game.

The X-fi issues that I had have been fixed with the latest drivers (I don't use optical though).

 

[Brian Stuart]

Ultimate is expensive for lot of features you will probably never use. Home premium 64 bit is the way to go.

 

[point decay]

same here, bought ultimate on release day, and have not used anything that is not already in Home premium.

 

[meghatronic]

/hijack

I think I need Ultimate as I use Remote Desktop Connection on my linux laptop to access my Windows box . That or business..... but then I lose all the multimedia stuff.

 

[Yan816]

Thanks for the replies.Looks like I need Home Premium.

 

[Tute]

X-Fi user here, Creative seem to have fixed a lot of the issues with their cards and Vista with the last driver release.

I certainly have no problems at all with mine.

 

[Dappy]

/hijack

I think I need Ultimate as I use Remote Desktop Connection on my linux laptop to access my Windows box . That or business..... but then I lose all the multimedia stuff.

You can get RDP to work with Home Premium but it requires a little software hack.