Re: i'm looking for more infor on 64bit

Jarod wrote:

On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:23:15 -0600, "Dark Science" <Jeff at Applied
Visual dot Com> wrote:



"Mark Dunakin" <md@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ucqcg.3977$AB3.1386@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Well, that was nice to know about, though the rest of the problems still make this system useless for the most part.
Or to put it another way, it's overkill that can never be used in this century or any other century for that matter.
Since obviously, like you say bellow, by the time anyone gets around to things, my system will be obsolete.


I suppose there's a couple ways to look at it.... First off, you could sort through your hardware/software and see just what your incompatibilities with XP64 are. If it comes down to replacing the onboard audio with a supported card or swapping out some other fairly inexpensive device to make it all work, it may not be a bad move. Then you could use that extra 2GB of RAM for something more constructive than a paperweight.




I'm not all that sure I understand why Mark thinks he wasted his
money.

Well, things like this is what made me feel like I won't be getting the 64bit usage out of the system:

/Yep. Just as we saw with the migration to Win32... It will take some more time and I think most hardware vendors are waiting for Vista to be closer to reality before they invest a ton of time into 64bit driver development. Anything right now is almost a waste of time because of the very small user base and by the time Vista releases (late this year, maybe next year) much of the current hardware will be written off as legacy/obsolete.

/

And this:

/I dunno, there's a lot of bugs with XP64... Just look at Microsoft's own list of known issues - it's HUGE! But yeah, it does run well if you have all the right drivers installed and if your work/usage is confined within its limitations. And yes, a lot of 32bit drivers will install and run the hardware, but a lot also won't.

Overall, XP64 is a stable and usable platform. But I don't really see what anyone is gaining from running it unless they actually have true 64bit software to run. LW is only halfway there as most plugins and whatnot still have to run in 32bit mode. I've got Win64 installed on two workstations and it has its good points and bad points. Yes, there are lots of drivers out there for it, but I also have a handfull of devices that are still unsupported. To each there own, I guess. If you have more than 2 CPU cores in your system, then you should be running Win64 just so you can feed each /
CPU core enough RAM.


These sort of things pretty much state my points to be a bit on the dissapointed side of things LOL

But, I may give the trial thingy a go again just to see how it deals with things now,
since that was about 4 months ago when I last tried it and maybe hell froze over
and there are actually some drivers and what nots for everything I have here?

I really was looking forward to the Vista and didn't want to go and spend all sorts of cash
for XP64 and then in just a few months have to spend more money on the OS I "really" want, Vista.

I hope to be as happy as you seem to be with your 64bit setup, some day, but only time and rivers will tell :)

Right now, everything is running perfectly, perfect and I am completely swamped with projects,
but I hope to test things out in the near future again with the trial, if it'll let me that is?
I have a seperate hard drive that just sits here for these very things when ever I want to
experiment so that way I don't have to worry about messing anything up on my good drive.

It'd be nice to some day be able to hot-connect up a drive when ever I want and let it be the new C drive,
but I am not caught up enough on info like that yet, but I am fairly certain taht it could be done?
Then I could experiment a lot easier when ever I wanted to without the worry of bad things happening.

Anyway, I may check into this Vista Beta thing, Jeff mentioned about and see how it works out?

......................md :)


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