Windows Vista32 bit or 64!!!

[qubit]

Windows 7 is no where near as good as Vista is right now. I tried the 7100 build and Vista was faster, more compatible and played better with almost everything.

I guess you've got an MSDN subscription, then... I'll know in a few days.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

more likely hes got google or isohunt or btjunkie or or or or.......rofl

 

[wiak]

64-bit aka x64 dooh!
32-bit is for lazys that dont have 4GB memory ;P

given the fact that many graphics cards have 2GB memory now and 32bit windows will see you full system ram as 1GB also excluding the graphics card ram instead of 3GB

 

[silkstone]

I think i'll skip windows 7 unless it offers a significant performance boost over vista 64. i tried the beta and didn't like it. admittedly nothing worked, but i just didn't like the feel more than anything.
I'll probabily dl a torrent of it just to try if it is possible to downgrade back to vista and make a firmer decision then.

If you do go vista x64 then some games (namely Crysis) will need 4gb of ram to be playable

 

[Darknova]

I'm really curious about this. Could you please give me a couple of examples?

My Main BIG 2? Homegroups and Libraries. I don't want or need them, so I disable them, but where ever I go, they're still there. IE in Explorer, they are both still in the Folder Pane despite them being disable.

 

[qubit]

My Main BIG 2? Homegroups and Libraries. I don't want or need them, so I disable them, but where ever I go, they're still there. IE in Explorer, they are both still in the Folder Pane despite them being disable.

That sounds very much like a bug to me and I'm sure it'll be patched eventually.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

dont count on it, ms still hasnt fixed alot of little bugs u can relate to that in xp and vista, MS wants you to use it, when you say "no thanks" they want to keep nagging you till u give in(eg windows desktop search....)

 

[qubit]

dont count on it, ms still hasnt fixed alot of little bugs u can relate to that in xp and vista, MS wants you to use it, when you say "no thanks" they want to keep nagging you till u give in(eg windows desktop search....)

You mean like IE shortcuts placed on the desktop or the browser favourites bar having their icons randomly flip between the website one and generics and back again whenever the mood took Windows? The bug that has been present since Windows 95?

Oh yeah, I remember that. I think this one's finally fixed in Vista, but I'm not sure, because I'd switched to Firefox before I switched to Vista.

This one bugged my mother no end. Then I showed her Firefox one day, promised her that it didn't do this and she switched to it right there and then...

 

[HeadlessChicken]

dont get me started on firefox buggs, there are bugs in the latist 3.5 builds that have been there since firefox 1.0 and that arent considered high enought priority to bother fixing..........and when ppl submit fixes they are ignored because they arent cool enought to contribute(the mozilla guys really are pricks if you ever try dealing with them at that level, arrogant assholes....)

I have tryed them all,each browsers got its "good points" minefield(64bit firefox) is getting better but still isnt there yet, sarfari4 isnt quite there yet, chrome same(tho both safari and chrome are better then FF/IE in many ways) the one i alwase land back on is Opera(running their latist dev builts) its not flawless but its got everything i need built in, no need for extentions/addons to get functions i need/want.

takes me 20-50mb worth of extentions to get the same function out of FF that opera comes with out of the box(and the opera installers smaller then FF's to boot....)

 

[vbx]

Windows 7 is no where near as good as Vista is right now. I tried the 7100 build and Vista was faster, more compatible and played better with almost everything.

LOL, you sure?

I was Triple booting xp, vista and win7.

Win7 loads faster, from a boot. Win7 also loads my thumbnails (videos and pictures) faster than Vista. Vista takes forever to load thumbnails.

I would record it using snagit to compare load up time on thumbnails and programs, but I already deleted my Vista partition. Win7 7100 > Vista SP1

 

[A Cheese Danish]

Windows 7 build 7100 also boots faster on my laptop than XP and Vista.

But OP: You are fine with 32-bit. But if you upgrade to 4GB of ram or more, then go 64-bit.

 

[HeadlessChicken]

sp2 makes vista/2008 alot snappier/quicker, also your codecs have alot to do with video thumbnails loading try the vista codec pack(theres a windows7 version as well)

seems silly to me that people are all gung ho about 7, just like they where all gung ho about vista, would bet when it comes out that there are alot of people bitching about problems/things you cant change, like default codecs for h264/avc video and such because MS locked WMC/WMP in to using ms codecs.