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Originally Posted by entwisi
I'm intruiged by the if M$ would make more comment on RAM? care to expand?
Also , I'm afraid your experience of Vista doesn't tally with teh majority of people I know. Even an Microsoft devout bloke I know agrees that Vista has some serious flaws in core functionality. (e.g. try getting Vista to connect to a WPA1 network), file deletion and general network file handling has some MAJOR flaws in it. For a flagship OS to have such problems is to br frank, scary.
I'd also like to understand how you feel the system is flawless when you say you do music production andteh soundcard drivers are buggy? Surely your whole purpose of music production relies on the sound subsystem working to perfection?
Impressive spec list though  |
Hi,
What I meant about the RAM is allowing more RAM to be used by the OS. At the moment I've got 8GB RAM, but only 4GB can be used by vista, 2GB of this can be used by my music production software. If I had a 32-bit OS then only 2GB could be used by windows. This is why I'd like microsoft to basically have no limit on RAM, I can't see why not in a 64-bit system, especially when the board has a capacity of around 24GB of RAM. You'd think Vista would be future-proof, but a lot of people I know already have more than 4GB. Seems a little odd to me. If they had a max of say 8 or 16GB. I'd be able to reserve 2GB for each core. Plus my music software would use more RAM (and it uses RAM to load virtual instruments & audio recordings; so more is better).
The system is flawless in that it's stable. The problem with the soundcard drivers is that everytime you make the sytem use the audio card drivers (media player or any program that requires the sound drivers to process sound), the drivers tend to make the sound go to one side i.e sound just comes out of either the left speaker or the right speaker (or none for that matter). If you get the sound to come out of both speakers and never "restart" the process (you leave the media player/program open) then it comes out of both speakers indefinitely. The quality and latency of the audio is perfect and with all the power, it allows me to use higher sample rates, meaning higher quality audio (although the human ear can't notice the quality difference anyway). I find my experiences with
Vista pretty strange, as it works pretty much flawless for every single process I use it for, people have been having real issues with it, yet I haven't, only soundcard drivers. They have nothing to do with M$ or Vista.
XP is pretty much solid as a rock too, it's just it doesn't seem to work as well as Vista on this particular system (all my other PCs have XP as it works better for them). I hope they do resolve the other issues with vista though. I think i'm one of the only people that are satisfied with it
John