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Should I Get Microsoft Vista 64 Bit?

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vbx said:
I'm triple booting Win XP, Vista Ultimate and Win7 beta.

So far its XP > WIN7 > VISTA

XP is still running faster, uses less system resource and just runs smoother overall. Vista takes FOREVER to load my picture thumbnails and videos thumbnails. I mean FOREVER. XP does it in less than 30 seconds.
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From my experience with dual booting xp and vista I found xp to take ages to load stuff like apps etc.

Also, my 5:1 surround sound does not work in Vista. All the channels are messed up. The 2 front work ok, but the center and rears are way OFF.
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Probs a bug with the drivers

On Idle:
XP uses 800mb of Rams.
Win7 uses 950mb of Rams
Vista uses 1.5-2gb of Rams

Vista and Win7 do look better overall. But XP is faster, and uses less resource to do the same thing. It does all this faster and with less ram.
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Vista uses more ram because it uses superfetch. Superfetch caches RAM so that commonly used applications load faster = higher ram usage. When that ram is required by the OS then superfetch gives it to that program.
 
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vbx said:
When Win7 comes out, I'll get it for sure. but I will delete my Vista Partition.
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I concur with that. I love Win 7 so much I'm actually considering going out and getting the full $250 version, none of that OEM or Student stuff. That would be my first time ever doing this for MS, which I really think has come through with Win 7, and I only used it a couple of times and am already in love with it.
 
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Due to the fact you're saying its a negative its using the ram, that means you have no idea how vista actually does use it. Vista automatically releases that ram if a program asks for it, its merely using it in the meantime to make the OS more responsive and prevent loading from the HDD.

Your 5.1 sound issues are user error - vista and 7 use the same drivers so you cant blame those, and i'm rather sure if vista couldnt do 5.1 there would have been a lot of complaints. It definately works fine for me.
 
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Yeah, I also had bad experience with Vista, so I went a different route about two years ago (see signature). Seven is little more responsive on my computer but not as fast as XP. From time to time I install Vista and Seven on my second HD to see how they (MS) are doing in a hope if they optimized it and it's actually usable.
 
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