Which OS will I get?

NorthstaNder · 2 Dec 2007 at 19:51

Getting a new Laptop on Wednesday and I know it's shipping with Vista Home Premium. Can I safely assume that it'll be the 32 bit version?

If it makes any diff the Laptop will have an AMD Athlon TM64 CPU which I think is dual core?

allllec · 2 Dec 2007 at 19:52

99.999999999% definite it will be 32bit version yes.

Glaucus · 2 Dec 2007 at 20:00

Yeh I expect it will be 32bit.

Wonder if you can send of for 64 like on the retail version (I doubt it).

Retailers are stupid for still supplying 32bit.

Tony Williams · 2 Dec 2007 at 20:05

Probably 32bit.

NorthstaNder · 2 Dec 2007 at 20:13

cool thanks guys. need to look for a new firewall you see as my currect one (ashampoo) doesn't support vista as far as i know, and i don't like comodo (can't get it to let my 360 through so i can stream music).

the firewall is very much a backup though as i connect to the net using a nat router.

swinnie · 2 Dec 2007 at 20:21

ignore me...

TheVoice · 2 Dec 2007 at 20:51

NorthstaNder said:
cool thanks guys. need to look for a new firewall you see as my currect one (ashampoo) doesn't support vista as far as i know, and i don't like comodo (can't get it to let my 360 through so i can stream music).

the firewall is very much a backup though as i connect to the net using a nat router.

Just use the default Vista one, if you're using a hardware firewall etc already. It does the job.

NorthstaNder · 2 Dec 2007 at 21:50

TheVoice said:
Just use the default Vista one, if you're using a hardware firewall etc already. It does the job.

will look at that. is it better than the xp firewall? ie, does it actually monitor outbound connections?