Vista: Positive - Negative - huh?

[lightt]

ok this is just for the sake of curiosity, for those who want to check whether their computer is vista compatible or not

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor 1.0

it will also tell u, what u need to upgrade, and what will not work with Vista

GTA:SAN ANDREAS does not work with Vista

[Cabe]

Originally Posted by bamhm182

BTW, WTF is 64 and 32 bit editions? I'm lost there, all I know is I have Windows XP Pro, and there's 4 different versions of Vista...

Simply things like the word size (how much data the processor can handle at one) is doubled. Meaning, in the simplest of terms, a 2Ghz 64 bit processor has twice the throughput of a 2Ghz 32 bit processor.

It also affects the amount of RAM you can have. In ram each location is give a unique address. In a 32 bit processor these addresses are 32 character strings in binary (ie a 2 bit processor could have 4 locations 00,01,10 and 11)
To find out the maximum addressable memory you do 2^32 which is 4,294,967,296 Bytes.
Divide by 1024 to get Kb then Mb then Gb:
4,194,304 Kb
4,096 Mb
4Gb

So to have more than 4Gb of RAM in a 32 bit machine is pointless because it can't access it.
A 64 bit machine can access up to 16 Petabytes which is 17,179,869,184Gb... which is alot.

A 64 bit operating system simply takes full advantage of the hardware. There are many other differences, the RAM one was just an example.

[bamhm182]

Oh, okay, I think I get it now, thanks Cabe!

[dirtbikr6288]

My uncle does some kind of testing with VISTA. He hand to spend a whole week working with it when it first came out because I think his company was thinking about swithing. He said that even after a week of working with it 8 hours a day he still had trouble navigating and what not. It sounds like Microsoft put looks over function with this OS... :?

(My uncle works for Okidata in case anyone was wondering)

BTW: who are the two people who have already updated?

[bamhm182]

Not me, this computer can BARELY run XP, I wouldn't be surprised if it only passed one part of the test(Ram)

[lightt]

mine is approved, but some of the stuffs i use are not compatible, my tv card, iburst internet cardbuss, and even GTA:SAN ANDREAS