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 - greatgood os, for all people that thinks 64-bit is bad, think again and use some proper software with 64-bit support, and check devices if they have 64-bit drivers, before buying 64-bit windows, all of the programs i use works fine in this vesion, openoffice, paint.net, picasa, foxit reader, firefox, hwmonitor, fraps, trillian, winamp, winrar, steam, and the excellent antivirus NOD32 & Smart Security works without any problems, my canon IP5200R works fine with 64-bit, it has 64-bit drivers before you buy this version CHECK for drivers for you printer and scanner if they dont have drivers get 32-bit but if they have drivers get this version you can also use 3Gb or more RAM in this version, with 32-bit windows you only get 3GB max and not including graphics card the "Start Search" in startmenu is addicting! its the most useful serch, as in you can search startmenu or just type in a Command Prompt command and you open up programs, like perfmon, msconfig and Services Aero is nice interface to Networking has realy improved in vista vista will run best on 2GB memory or more but it is possible to tweak it and i do recommend turning off Windows Search, System Protection, Automatic Defrag & move swapfile to second disk Rating:  - great softwareI dont know what the big fuss about switching over to 64-bit software is, I have not had any problems. I would recomend to anyone doing a new build I am not sure the older comuters would have drivers available you can always check microsofts 64-bit software site and run a check on your computer if it is compatible. Rating:  - CrippledMandatory driver signing renders this OS incompatible with just about any audio/video hardware you have, all for the sake of DRMming the entire signal stream. Crippleware at its finest. Rating: - Give it the hardware it needs.............As primarily a Linux user I was building a new PC for the kids. I was moderately impressed with Vista. As far as the user interface is concerned it's little different to XP. It can be a little irritating getting all the little security messages. I can't comment extensively on the comparison with XP because I don't use it. Compared to Linux it's pretty demanding on your hardware but that's always been the case. You really want to give this OS 4Gb of RAM but the cost of 4Gb these days is under $100. The Aero effect is a nice novelty but I'm perplexed as to why it needs so much graphical power, Compiz for Linux is a few years more advanced and requires a lot less power to do a lot more. Rating: - Windows Vista 64 Home Premium Edition OEMIt installed easily on my Athlon 64 computer. It had all the drivers for the Tyan mb and most of my add-ons. My Adaptec 2940UW SCSI card is not recognized even after I found a driver. The driver was installed but Win said it wouldn't run. This is a 32 bit card in a 32 bit PCI slot. No driver is available for my sound card, M-Audio Delta 2496 but Soundblaster cards should be OK. My ATI Radeon graphics card was recognized and works great. It's in a PCI-X slot. Vista boots up much faster than Win 2k and most programs appear to run faster. A 32 bit card game runs fine under 1 user but not under me or administrator. DOS programs apparently don't run. I have a couple of legacy programs that I'll use under an earlier OS. Overall, great price; works great; seems solid!
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