ewitles
Gang -
What is your opinion is the best version of 7 and why?
Currently, I use Home Premium 32bit.
Basic music playback and occasional video.
Thanks!
What is your opinion is the best version of 7 and why?
Currently, I use Home Premium 32bit.
Basic music playback and occasional video.
Thanks!
Posted Fri 25 Mar 11 @ 8:04 pm
jbart19
Professional 64 - gives you a little more stability and versatility with out the ridiculous cost of premium.
Also a little more future proof - allows you to install what has become the standard amount of ram anywhere form 6->16GB
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare
Also a little more future proof - allows you to install what has become the standard amount of ram anywhere form 6->16GB
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare
Posted Sat 26 Mar 11 @ 1:02 am
AuralCandy.Net
...assuming you have the hardware that supports 64-bit version, that is.
Posted Sat 26 Mar 11 @ 10:04 am
Andrew87
Professional costs more than Home Premium. If you need to connect to a domain or require remote access to your machine than Professional/Ultimate is the edition for you - however, it's probably not sensible to use your work PC with Virtual DJ! Even Windows 7 Starter could be enough for Virtual DJ (if you don't do Video as it only supports a single monitor). By the time most people optimize their systems they've disabled the additional features of Home Premium anyway. For the average home user home premium is perfect.
Posted Sat 26 Mar 11 @ 12:30 pm
SuperAceMan
I use Windows 7 (64) Home Premium optimized for DJing only. The system has been stable without a hiccup since VDJ7 was released and I use it 3 nights a week minimum. It has been a dream to use this set-up to say the least.
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Posted Sat 26 Mar 11 @ 12:43 pm
ewitles
That brings another point... 32 or 64?
A difference?
Mine is optimized for music/video playback as well. Maybe I will try 64 and see if all my applications behave.
I have two systems... :)
A difference?
Mine is optimized for music/video playback as well. Maybe I will try 64 and see if all my applications behave.
I have two systems... :)
Posted Sat 26 Mar 11 @ 2:12 pm
jbart19
Unless you are running apps that are severely legacy based any relatively modern software should have no trouble running on a 64-bit OS. 32bit programs are run from a separate directory and if you use the professional edition you can even run 16-bit applications in the virtual XP mode as long as you have a processor that supports virtualization.
As far as having hardware that supports 64-bit windows 7 the overwhelming majority of processors and hardware released in the last 5 years will be compatible. I have been running a 64-bit windows OS since 2005. Granted things were a little tougher then but driver development and Windows itself have come a long way since then.
I believe the only Intel chips that currently do not support 64-bit instructions are a handful of the Atom chips.
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/specifications.htm
I am not aware of any of the AMD chips that do not support 64-bit instructions.
As far as using the Home edition because you won't need RDP or some of the domain functions available in professional I think that is a little fanciful or short sighted depending on how you look at it. Fanciful in that a lot of us will only be able to buy 1 laptop - especially when it will need to be responsive to a program like VDJ which can severely tax low-end hardware - that laptop will need to do whatever our lives throw at us so having the ability to interface with a corporate network or us RDP to log in from a remote location could be very handy. I wish I made enough DJ'ing to justify a separate high end laptop just for my gigs but it isn't happening yet.
It could also be seen as shortsighted because it would preclude you from creating a domain based network at home. More and more with all of the devices a home may have my friends are deciding to create server based home domains to control the families network instead of just work-group based clusters. A lot of my friends are taking older desktop hardware and re-purposing it to home server, NAS, roles when everybody transitions to laptops. As an example a friend of mine has a wife and 2 kids. That household has 4 laptops, 2 netbooks, a media server, an NAS, a high- end gaming desktop, 4 linux based DVR-type sff pc's, a few networked printers and scanners, 4 security cameras and a couple WP7 phones all on the home network for 4 people. while it is a little out of the ordinary I see this becoming a trend in the modern society.
As far as having hardware that supports 64-bit windows 7 the overwhelming majority of processors and hardware released in the last 5 years will be compatible. I have been running a 64-bit windows OS since 2005. Granted things were a little tougher then but driver development and Windows itself have come a long way since then.
I believe the only Intel chips that currently do not support 64-bit instructions are a handful of the Atom chips.
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/atom/specifications.htm
I am not aware of any of the AMD chips that do not support 64-bit instructions.
As far as using the Home edition because you won't need RDP or some of the domain functions available in professional I think that is a little fanciful or short sighted depending on how you look at it. Fanciful in that a lot of us will only be able to buy 1 laptop - especially when it will need to be responsive to a program like VDJ which can severely tax low-end hardware - that laptop will need to do whatever our lives throw at us so having the ability to interface with a corporate network or us RDP to log in from a remote location could be very handy. I wish I made enough DJ'ing to justify a separate high end laptop just for my gigs but it isn't happening yet.
It could also be seen as shortsighted because it would preclude you from creating a domain based network at home. More and more with all of the devices a home may have my friends are deciding to create server based home domains to control the families network instead of just work-group based clusters. A lot of my friends are taking older desktop hardware and re-purposing it to home server, NAS, roles when everybody transitions to laptops. As an example a friend of mine has a wife and 2 kids. That household has 4 laptops, 2 netbooks, a media server, an NAS, a high- end gaming desktop, 4 linux based DVR-type sff pc's, a few networked printers and scanners, 4 security cameras and a couple WP7 phones all on the home network for 4 people. while it is a little out of the ordinary I see this becoming a trend in the modern society.
Posted Sun 27 Mar 11 @ 12:21 pm