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DNK said:
My son is a big gamer. He says because of this he needs the Ultimate version.
What is the thoughts on that?
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i think he is yanking your chain..

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Nearly forgot about this - I bought a laptop from Best Buy during their sale which included a free upgrade to Win 7!
 
DNK said:
My son is a big gamer. He says because of this he needs the Ultimate version.
What is the thoughts on that?
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It's nonsense.

The biggest differences between Ultimate and "Professional" is the bitlocker encryption, language packs, VDI enhancements, and ability to boot from a virtual disk. If what you've got runs on XP or Vista it'll probably run on Windows 7 - in fact I'd be surprised if it doesn't.

I think "professional" offers the most useful options but home-premium is probably good enough for most home users. Unless he needs "XP Mode" I don't really know why he'd even need the pro-version to play games.
 
He has two options: One is to do a dual-boot with XP and Win-7, then boot into the one is wants (google it), or get Win-7-Professional. Ultimate isn't needed for XP Mode.

I've been really surprised about XP Mode though. I thought for sure I'd need to use it for a couple of things, but Win-7 has run <span style="font-style: italic">everything</span> I've thrown at it without any issues at all. So far so good.
 
aerog said:
He has two options: One is to do a dual-boot with XP and Win-7, then boot into the one is wants (google it), or get Win-7-Professional. Ultimate isn't needed for XP Mode.

I've been really surprised about XP Mode though. I thought for sure I'd need to use it for a couple of things, but Win-7 has run <span style="font-style: italic">everything</span> I've thrown at it without any issues at all. So far so good.
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Same here, and I've been running it for about 3 months or so (the RC). Never had to use XP Mode, so considering I get 3 licenses for less than the cost of a single Pro or Ultimate license, I went that way. Of course, I don't use the laptop for gaming....
 
it will play any game availible in the last five years, some friends who had access to the RC are heavy duty gamers
 
:iagree: Same here. The gamer boyz are the friends who've run it for months now. I was impressed.
 
My boy has been using a 30 day version he got from a son of a Micro. employee.
He had told my wife that he had heard that hard core gamers want the Ult.
 
You can suggest that if he puts on his tagline that he uses Ultimate and he's only using Professional nobody will really ever know the difference - including him :wink:
 
aerog said:
DrEntropy said:
:iagree: Same here. The gamer boyz are the friends who've run it for months now. I was impressed.
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With what? Their scores? :wink:
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Their opinion of th' O/S, silly! :laugh:
 
Ohhhh.

I have everything just about the way I want on mine. I didn't go to the trouble of really getting things "just right" before - seeing as that I had to reinstall the stupid OS anyway.

I had one of those "oh crud" moments tonight when I loaded up my 6-year old camera system project and one of the .ocx files wouldn't load. It's a bridge to the parallel port bus and I don't really need it but still... then I found out I have to run stuff in "administrator mode".

Nothing on the fancy box mentioned that.
 
aerog said:
I thought for sure I'd need to use it for a couple of things, but Win-7 has run <span style="font-style: italic">everything</span> I've thrown at it without any issues at all. So far so good.
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Illustrator v9 won't run on the 64 bit version of Win7. So I either need to upgrade Illustrator, get the Win7 pro 64 bit, a 32 bit flavor of Win7. Or a piece of paper and a pencil. :crazyeyes:
 
FWIW I have Win-7 Ultimate 64-bit on my new Dell laptop. The only problem I've had so far is getting USB->Serial adapters to work on it. Half the popular USB->serial port adapters use an MCT chipset that has absolutely no 64-bit support, the rest of them pretty much use the "Prolific" chipset which has pretty decent support. They're usually a little cheaper too.

So - if you're going 64-bit and need one of these adapters look carefully at the specs to see who actually made the hardware in the cable. Prolific cables usually are blue or purple with a streamlined molded shape, some have LEDs some don't. MCT-based adapters usually have a black box-shaped end with LEDs, many have a silver metal tag in the middle of the serial-end. Garmin sells that particular adapter under their name.

I've used both in the airplane and have used both - they both work great.

A third alternative that's fairly hard to find is an FTDI-based adapter. Their support is also really good and will work under 64-bit Win7.

The problem is isolated to Windows-7 really, it's a 64-bit problem and the first one I've run up against so far.
 
Not necessarily. If your software (gaming or otherwise) doesn't take advantage of it then that software, itself, isn't going to be able to utilize the full potential of the system.

But... if you've got a 64bit system and lots of memory then the operating system itself is doing it's thing with 64bits and using all that memory the way it needs to. The 32 bit application can't use all that memory because it's limited, but the operating system can use all that 64bits needs.

That's my take on it anyway.

If your game (or anything else you're running) is designed for 64-bits then it conceivably can do tons more than 32 bits.
 
It's sort of like, a Yugo limited at 65mph is going to still go 65mph whether you have 4 or 8 lanes in the highway. As long as there's an open lane :smile:
 
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