I've got Vista 64 Bit ultimate and SP1 is sitting in windows update waiting for me to click install updates (the size is between 120.0 MB and 711.6 MB) Its been there for at least 12 hours.
BTW I'm in Australia.
I installed Vista 64 ultimate recently on my 13 month old home machine. The machine is a Core 2 Duo 6600 with 4 gigs of ram. I rum VS 2005, VS 2008 and do some development work from home. I have a Qaud Core 6600 with 4 gigs of ram at work and the difference when using visual studio is like night and day. I am counting the days until I can install Vista 64 at work. XP is just too old to take good advantage of the most recent hardware. Not to mention the fact that 32 bit windows can really only use somewhere around 3 gigs of ram. All my old and new games that I have tried also work. Company Of Heroes still runs at max settings like it did on XP. The only thing that doesn't work is my Canon G3 camera, but I blame Canon for that, though there is supposed to be a workaround with the old twain driver. Maybe my experience with Vista has been so good because I waited a long time to install it. It definitely feels a lot smoother than windows XP and has no swapping everytime you come back to the machine. I have also run Linux on and off for years as a home server, so I am not a MS fanboy, I am just telling it like it is. Vista 64 bit is excellent.
I had laser eye surgery back in 1996. The kind where only the laser touches your eye nothing else. Seven years later I still have close to perfect eyesight and no side effects. I only had one side effect after the procedure, I broke my second small toe on the lounge the day after because I was a bit disorientated. A couple of days after that and I was fine. I did have poor night vision for 2-3 months but that went away. BTW: The procedure was competely painless, it just felt like I had grit in my eyes for a few days. I guess the time I had it done would be considered fairly early days for laser eye surgery.
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I've got Vista 64 Bit ultimate and SP1 is sitting in windows update waiting for me to click install updates (the size is between 120.0 MB and 711.6 MB) Its been there for at least 12 hours. BTW I'm in Australia.
I installed Vista 64 ultimate recently on my 13 month old home machine. The machine is a Core 2 Duo 6600 with 4 gigs of ram. I rum VS 2005, VS 2008 and do some development work from home. I have a Qaud Core 6600 with 4 gigs of ram at work and the difference when using visual studio is like night and day. I am counting the days until I can install Vista 64 at work. XP is just too old to take good advantage of the most recent hardware. Not to mention the fact that 32 bit windows can really only use somewhere around 3 gigs of ram. All my old and new games that I have tried also work. Company Of Heroes still runs at max settings like it did on XP. The only thing that doesn't work is my Canon G3 camera, but I blame Canon for that, though there is supposed to be a workaround with the old twain driver. Maybe my experience with Vista has been so good because I waited a long time to install it. It definitely feels a lot smoother than windows XP and has no swapping everytime you come back to the machine. I have also run Linux on and off for years as a home server, so I am not a MS fanboy, I am just telling it like it is. Vista 64 bit is excellent.
I had laser eye surgery back in 1996. The kind where only the laser touches your eye nothing else. Seven years later I still have close to perfect eyesight and no side effects. I only had one side effect after the procedure, I broke my second small toe on the lounge the day after because I was a bit disorientated. A couple of days after that and I was fine. I did have poor night vision for 2-3 months but that went away. BTW: The procedure was competely painless, it just felt like I had grit in my eyes for a few days. I guess the time I had it done would be considered fairly early days for laser eye surgery.