Re: Hard disk crash, rebuild with Vista Premium ?

dkh wrote:


Just had my main hd crash on my main desktop pc.
Its unrecoverable so i'm faced with a RMA replacement and a rebuild

Given that im gonna have to rebuild Im wondering is now
the time to jump ship to vista ?


Ive got a athlon 64 3500+ and 1gb memory
graphics card is a geforce 6600gt (agp)


Should i stick with xp or would vista be a sensible move at this stage
and if so which version (32bit or 64 bit ?) of the premium edition

Opinions anyone

Thanks in advance....

Unless you have some compelling need to go to Vista, I would say no.

If you were able to do everything you wanted in XP, why change? Bear in mind
that you may have peripherals for which no Vista drivers will be available.

I have run Vista Betas and the RC. It looks pretty, but places big demands
on hardware. Ideally, you would want to at least double the amount of
memory you have for example.

If you fancy tinkering with a different OS just for a change, why not create
a small partition on your replacement HD and have a look at some of the
different Linux flavours available? You might be pleasantly surprised!

Chris

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