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Vista

Anonymous
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Hi All,

I'm looking at buying a new laptop. I seem to recall in the past that certain individuals had problems with vista. I was wondering, now that Vista's been out for a while, if anyone has any input as to any compatibility issues. I'm using XP Pro now and AC 11.

Thanks,
Doug
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vistasp
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Most people complain about driver issues, Doug. You might want to check if all your peripherals have working drivers for Vista.
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henrypootel
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the only problems are unavailable drivers for old/weird peripherals, and underpowered hardware.

Don't bother with vista unless you have at least 2 cores at over 2.5Ghz, at least 4Gb of RAM, and a decent Graphics Card.

This thing here would easily outperform most Workstation desktop machines. Just throw in some more RAM:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/nz/en/sm/WF06b/321957-321957-64295-3329741-3329741-3784202-3817622.html

I've been using Vista for a couple of months now and I'm very happy with it.
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Anonymous
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4thorns (and others)
It's not just the economy that's driving the heavy discounts I'm seeing.
If you haven't bought yet and can wait a bit, a whole new slue of HP lap tops with quad cores is about the hit the market.
Right after they get rid of all the duo's at xmas and Jan "white" sales.

The heavy discounts tipped me off to ask the right questions at Frys and others.

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KeesW
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Henry
What is the go with 4GB RAM for Vista? I thought that 32 bit processors could only handle 3GB - am I mistaken?
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Your processor is 64-bit.
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit), the following processors are all 64-bit:

# AMD's AMD64 extensions (used in Athlon 64, Opteron, Sempron, Turion 64 and Phenom processors)
# Intel's Intel 64 extensions (used in newer Celeron, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Xeon, and Core 2 processors

If you are also using 64-bit Vista then that should be fine.
I am currently using Vista 32-bit and the system sees only 3.2 GB of RAM.
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KeesW
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I know what I've got and that it uses the full 4GB RAM. HenryPootel remarked that one should get 4GB RAM, without referring to the OS and I was puzzled. My wife is looking buying a Dell or Mac laptop (she does heavy duty editing and desktop publishing) and Dell are offering 4GB installed, or making it a cheap option, for normal non-64 bit Vista. I just wondered why one would want 4GB if the OS only uses 3.
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henrypootel
Graphisoft Partner
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Basically, I would only consider running Vista on at least 4Gb or RAM, and seeing as you need Vista-64 to do that, then I would only ever consider Vista-64.
I don't know why people persist in selling machines with 32-bit operating systems on them. 64-bit should be standard with the option of 32-bit if you know that for some reason you can't use 64.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I've been using 64bit OSes for the last several years and have never looked back.
Josh Osborne - Central Innovation

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Anonymous
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I'm currently running AC11 and am about to get a new computer, if I get Vista 64Bit will it work ok with AC11? Likely computer specs are below, what do you think?

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henrypootel
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Yes, It'll work fine, but you'll need ArchiCAD 12 to be able to use all 4 cores.
It's worth the upgrade just for the speed boost.
Josh Osborne - Central Innovation

HP Zbook Studio G4 - Windows 10 Pro, Intel i7 7820HQ, 32Gb RAM, Quadro M1200