You have this wrong, vista has pertection ONLY against piracy.

Really - it doesn't. It has the capability to stop you watching or listening to *anything* that Microsoft or one of their partners doesn't want you to see/hear. Again, copying a CD that you OWN to your hard drive is also illegal. You'll see with the final release and with the issues that come soon after that what they tell you is there, and what's actually there are totally different.

There is no point of using the 64bit version unless you have a 64bit processor. Also there are far less compatable drivers available for the 64bit version.

Oh yes, because the 5 licensed, shrink-wrapped copies of Office 2k7 and Vista Ultimate we got direct from Microsoft for testing at my job are totally pirated.

Vista is very hit or miss. Some hardware it plays nice with, most it doesn't. Our brand new machine that we bought just for Vista testing likes to shit all over the ethernet and keyboard drivers.

me and im at day 28 from 31

its cool but i prefer XP !!
belive it or not




-never change a running system- keep that in mind

with my laptop i couldnt even run vista beta 2 at all basically

Celeron m1.6ghz (its like core duo dont need high speed n shit)
and 512 pc3200 ram
laggiest thing ive ever used.
and wasnt worth it.
mabye when it becomes less of a memmory whore

Sounds alot like the discussions that were going on when XP was released and people were still trying to run it on PII 266 Machines with 32 megs of ram. "Omg, I'm not upgrading for that hunk of crap!"

Does anybody have any useful information for this discussion?

You want the more practical diffrence between 32 and 64 bit architechture? Memory addressing capability. Thats really the only tangeble benefit as of right now. There really isn't much available that makes x64 a sure fire win over anything else.

By the way, your Celeron is NOTHING like a core duo. A core duo has 2-4 MB of cache, where as your celeron is lucky if it has 64k. Go install Windows XP on a P 133. Go install Windows 2000 on a 486DX2/66. Windows 95 on a 80386. Make yourself miserable running cutting edge operating system technology on 3 year old hardware, but please, don't try and make a public outcry because you can't tell the diffrence between a Celeron M 1.6 and a Core Duo with 2x 2.6 ghz cores and 4 MB of cache.

EDIT: By the way, for the record, I am running Vista at home. It's the retail copy. I have a decent system, and it works just fine. I've got a topic in here as well, for people who can't get D2 to run on it, but that shouldn't be a problem for you, as you probably can't get desktop compositing to work in the first place (you need a real 3d accelerator).

This post was edited by DrDyna on Nov 17 2006 01:29pm

Please explain to me how you have a retail copy of an operating system that hasn't gone retail yet.

MS Partner / MSDN ftw.

Working for a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical company has it's advantages as well.

This post was edited by DrDyna on Nov 17 2006 02:58pm

Well, since Vista for MSDN subscribers just was released today, you must have some sort of magic software time machine.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.aspx