I’m moving soon and anticipate that I will have ethernet strung into my room again. My desktop hasn’t been plugged into anything really for the better part of a year. It’s also not exactly new. I was borrowing it from
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I’m moving soon and anticipate that I will have ethernet strung into my room again. My desktop hasn’t been plugged into anything really for the better part of a year. It’s also not exactly new. I was borrowing it from
Vista = No, no no no, no no no, no. Wait 6 months to a year for DX10 graphics support (chips AND drivers) to settle out, as the new UI is a hog. Other performance is also supposedly not really up to snuff. I also read horror stories like, 4 gigs RAM if you want it to run well.
I’m not sure that you really need XP pro to use multicore processors. Maybe check a benchmark run on Tom’s Hardware or something, and see what they’ve got installed to run the tests?
Been running vista for a couple of months now (see if you can bum a msdn copy like I did) and while it is more of a pig, it hasn’t been horrible or anything. I need to see if I’m running more than I should, but I’m at something like 400 MB used after all my resident stuff is loaded, while XP was around 200 MB, and running 64-bit can’t be helping with that. I can’t say I really have noticed any improvements except that the ~10 second delay for windows genuine advantage has gone away. It’s making me want to upgrade to 2 gigs of RAM though.
I have heard that tablet and media center support is much improved, if you were planning on exploring either of those options.