Vista x64 – My thoughts on being bent over the barrel.
by galen on Jul.31, 2007, under Vista x64
I got a couple of vista with my MSDN subscription. I have a $6,000 AUD DELL laptop. The XPS M1710, with absolutely all the fruit. This surely would be enough to power vista?
The Setup:
- Vista Ultimate x64
- System/Development Utilities
- Visual Studio 2005 (32Bit)
- Avast for anti virus (32Bit)
- Acronis for backups (32Bit)
- Microsoft Office Ultimate (32Bit)
- General Utilities
- Nokia PC Suite (32Bit)
- MediaMonkey (32Bit)
- Foxit Reader (32Bit)
- Development VMWare Server with a guest OS of: Windows 2003
- SQL Server 2005 developer edition
- mySQL 5.0
- IIS 6.0
My experiences so far:
- things are slow, real slow im only using 2GB of ram and suspect 4GB will be mandatory
- as you can see from the list of “general” apps, there is still not enough native 64bit native apps out there
- adobe should hang themselves for nothing having flash for x64 browsers making using IE x64 pointless
Bugs / Annoyances
- typing commands in command prompt hangs sometimes
- trying to get the run command up hangs sometimes (2-5mins)
- wireless WPA1 seems to be borked, i have to attempt to connect several times and when i’m lucky it will work
- boot up, shut down is very very slow
Good Points
- it is pretty
- once everything is loaded it doesnt feel that slow (not counting the occasional hangs with run and command prompt)
