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  • Sticking with XP for now

    30 45.45%
  • Vista Home

    1 1.52%
  • Vista Home Premium

    4 6.06%
  • Vista Business

    2 3.03%
  • Vista Ultimate

    17 25.76%
  • Some kind of Linux

    1 1.52%
  • Dual Booting as I love being a total geek

    6 9.09%
  • I would use Vista but machine is under spec

    0 0%
  • Vista is not for me

    5 7.58%
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    Quote Originally Posted by shagga66 View Post

    btw, I do use dual boot with xp as my CAD software wont run on vista, but I use vista %80 of my PC time.

    Shagga
    what cad software do you use? i will consider vista at work when they
    release 64 bit version of the Acad software i run.



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    Quote Originally Posted by gavpk View Post
    what cad software do you use? i will consider vista at work when they
    release 64 bit version of the Acad software i run.
    I use the following 3D CAD on a daily basis at work, running XP

    Unigraphics
    Catia V5
    Ideas Master Series

    ohh and AutoCAD, but dont do too much 2D anymore.

    Shagga

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    Quote Originally Posted by z80 View Post
    Yep, although in one of the weeks it was 100 in ONE DAY....


    This 50 will have Vista replaced by XP in the morning....and plenty of time before lunch Oceanboy.

    yep, believe it or not, your efficiency and obvious intelligence was never in doubt with me.
    It was the other bit (at the time)

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    Was using vista when first released, until I tried to transfer on my local network. Then I trashed it
    Just bought an aldi laptop(very impressed I must say) and it had vista installed with SP1. After removing indexing I have found that the local transfers are just as fast as Winxp now.. Maybe with SP2 it might just better Xp

    Verdict - getting there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shagga66 View Post
    I use the following 3D CAD on a daily basis at work, running XP

    Unigraphics
    Catia V5
    Ideas Master Series

    ohh and AutoCAD, but dont do too much 2D anymore.

    Shagga
    yeah, its all 3D for me, Autocad (allthough very capable itself ) is a pig for
    3d, (Autodesk revit structure suite looks good though) but add a very powerful plugin called Prosteel and it all happens, i believe
    Prosteel will overtake Telkla stuctures (XSteel) soon, the only 2D i see is the
    shop drawings i produce.

    ps. not 100% but if your using Unigraphics, have a look at Navisworks

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    May i also jolt everyone’s memory, back to the days of the transition
    from win98 to W2K/XP (same deal not many drivers and the rest, before the service packs rolled out)

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    I have been baulking at Vista since it's release and the little exposure I've had hasn't been too bad. I've managed to get apps running that's required. I have just got a new lenovo tablet up and running and it has Vista Business and seems ok. I will give it a run and if I don't like it I can roll back to XP but Vista has been around long enough that drivers etc should of caught up. Bit like when XP first came out and there were no drivers etc out there. But don't get me wrong.....I wouldn't install in a corporate environment just yet.

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    I'm still trying to get a handle on XP, Vista is pushing it too far
    It's hard to make a come back when I havn't been anywhere
    I finally got my head together, now my bodies falling apart.
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    Vista can work quite well on a desktop if you turn off some of the eye candy
    but its too much of a hog on a lappie thats not charged up more often
    yhan with ubuntu installed. my desktop with 8 gig ddr2 mem and a 16 gig usbkey used as extra memory resource still had me tapping my foot in
    frustration till i turned of more than half the goodies that make the
    difference tween Vista and xp pro. now I just use xp (less driver issues
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    I have Vista Ultimate now running perfectly on a Celeron laptop. It didnt when it first came out.

    Gavpk , spot on , I have seen the same thing with every operating system change on here since Windows 98. Ironically for a tech forum , by the time a lot of people make the change another OS has come out

    Its something you need to either keep going back to to check how its progressing , or keep it as dual boot. Its pretty much as good as XP now in my opinion and I ran out of reasons to keep XP on anything. Vista has stabilised a lot quicker than what XP did , it took a few service packs before it became as stable as it is now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by z80 View Post
    Yep, although in one of the weeks it was 100 in ONE DAY....


    This 50 will have Vista replaced by XP in the morning....and plenty of time before lunch Oceanboy.


    Jesus z80, let me come and do some security work on your shed for Gods sake.... looks like 5min with cordless drill and a roof screw bit to me

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    Joezep, Hi, I am interested to know what canon scanner u have as I have a 1220u canon which will not work with vista. No drivers are available that I am aware of. Thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by faulty_b View Post
    Joezep, Hi, I am interested to know what canon scanner u have as I have a 1220u canon which will not work with vista. No drivers are available that I am aware of. Thanks

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    Quote Originally Posted by faulty_b View Post
    Joezep, Hi, I am interested to know what canon scanner u have as I have a 1220u canon which will not work with vista. No drivers are available that I am aware of. Thanks
    My scanner is Fb 620s and SCSI card is Adaptec AVA-2904e.

    The big difference is mine is a SCSI scanner and yours is a usb. So Adaptec released vista drivers for my card and when i attach the scanner, vista recognize it straight away.

    Just a note pre sp1 i had to install the Adaptec drivers but with sp1 it's built in happy days.

    Scangear i just use the normal xp drivers no mods needed.
    Last edited by joezep; 18-09-08 at 02:28 PM. Reason: spelling

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    staying with XP, installed Win7 RC2 didn't like it as I couldn't install FF. Back to my ghost of XP and I won't touch it again til RTM, in a few weeks (current 'leak' is not the real RTM)

    even then, XP just works and works well.

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    I use linux and run Win7 and Vista in a VM when required and it is not that often.
    It is a hobby so mileage varies
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    I took the option when Z80 was handing out numbers and then upgraded to Ultimate, must say a lot more stable than XP, no probs with any drivers \Turned out a cheap way of obtaining Ultimate. So thanks Z80
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