Brad
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I’m still pretty jazzed to upgrade but I was talking to Peter Kirn from Create Digital Music the other day and he described how poorly Ableton Live works under it right now so I think I’ll be waiting until I hear some other people give the OK.
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My dads company upgraded. so we got Ultimate for free! YAYZ!
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Brad
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How are you finding it? Several of my friends have now switched back to XP for various reasons (mostly software compatibility) but they all said XP is light years faster.
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Mackenzie
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Eh, I use Vista on my laptop and it actually is faster than XP or even Ubuntu. I think this is because Vista specifically has improvements for laptop speed. All of my software works, and if I had a USB box for input for audio recording, I’d buy Magix MusicMaker and be in heaven. XP might be faster for some things, but .NET applications run faster on Vista since it’s integrated tightly into the OS, so the Office apps open up instantly for me.
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Brad
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Faster .NET would be nice. Most .NET things on XP are insanely slow. Like Windows Live Writer, which is a great little blogging program, but even on my dual core system here it loads like a beast.
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Mackenzie
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Yes, Writer is still slow even on Vista… I think they must have debugging enabled or something because it takes my laptop like 6 seconds to load the thing up.
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Brad
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It’s about six seconds here as well. I think it’s the one thing that didn’t get any faster when I doubled my processor speed recently.
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fieryprophet
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Well, I’m currently running Windows 2000 Pro, Windows XP, and Windows Vista all at the same time on the same box :)
How, you ask? Ubuntu Linux + VMWare + Dual Core w/ plenty of RAM = insane multitasking and program testing.
When I finish my usual gauntlet of environments test I happily live in Ubuntu only.
Whee.
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Brad
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I’ve been meaning to try out VMWare. How well does it perform compared to a dedicated system? I assume there’s gotta be a pretty significant performance hit.
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fieryprophet
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Nowhere near as much as you’d think. Once you’ve installed the VMWare Tools drivers in your Windows environment, it’s near 100% speed. The only downer is the limited hardware available in a virtualized environment (hence, no good 3D gaming support. . .yet).
However, if you’re using it to run the average Windows application under Linux, this is par excellence.
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Brad
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I almost had to bust out the VMWare today to try and salvage something off an ext3 hard drive. But then it turned out the drive was fine and it was just the power supply of that machine screwing with me. Fun morning.
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niku
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If you don’t mind walking on the questionable side of copyright law, I can give you a link to a file that will make WinXP look pretty much exactly like Vista.
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Brad
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Are there copyright issues with modifying XP?
I’m not too unhappy with how Windows XP looks now. I’ve been using an older version of XPize and it’s nice. (Not a huge fan of the newer versions though.)
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