eager to use vista

I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between the
different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work well
for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter which
should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
differences between them.

The half amount of RAM?
I use Vista Home Premium on two computers. The first on has 1 GB RAM,
the second 2 GB. Word-2007 runs a lot faster on the second computer,
and I will buy more RAM for the first one as soon as I can.
If you will be working with Home Premium I would certainly recommend
having at least 2 GB RAM.
With 'only' 1 GB it can be excruciatingly slow.
For the rest I much prefer Vista over XP, which was a disaster to me.

Kind regards,

Rob.






On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:49:00 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?c2hhZG93?=
<> wrote:

>I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
>purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
>was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
>use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between the
>different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work well
>for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
>ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter which
>should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
>efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
>differences between them.
>

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:49:00 -0700, shadow
<> wrote:

>I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
>purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
>was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
>use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between the
>different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work well
>for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
>ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter which
>should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
>efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
>differences between them.

One gig of RAM is fine with Vista Home Basic (my own setup). I would
not try to run the others with less than twice that, and would get
four gigs if I were going to buy anything that has the "Aero"
interface.

To be honest, you need 2G of RAM to get a good experience from Vista, and
that includes Home Basic. The Aero interface doesn't use up a whole Gig of
memory ;-)

In terms of running your 3D editing software, any version of Vista will be
fine.

SteveT

Shadow,
1 G ram is sufficient. 2 G ram is better. MS requirements are quite often
less than ideal for enjoyable usage.

Plunge ahead. If you find performance unsatisfactory, then go for 2G ram.
If you miss some features, consider upgrading to Ultimate.

Enjoy,
karl

"shadow" <> wrote in message
news:6D6259FD-F113-4360-8755-...
> I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
> purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
> was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
> use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between
> the
> different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work
> well
> for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
> ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter
> which
> should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
> efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
> differences between them.
>

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:44:10 +0100, "Steve Thackery"
<> wrote:

>To be honest, you need 2G of RAM to get a good experience from Vista, and
>that includes Home Basic.

Not in my experience. This same machine had XP on it two months ago
and now it has Home Basic... just as fast if not faster than the XP
(very streamlined) system was.

Of course, I've streamlined my Vista installation as well.

>The Aero interface doesn't use up a whole Gig of memory ;-)

>In terms of running your 3D editing software, any version of Vista will be
>fine.
>
>SteveT

VHB does not provide the Aero interface and things that go with it like
Flip3D but the video card and driver should be what handles 3ds Max and so
it should work or not regardless of the edition.

"shadow" <> wrote in message
news:6D6259FD-F113-4360-8755-...
> I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
> purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
> was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
> use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between
> the
> different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work
> well
> for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
> ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter
> which
> should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
> efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
> differences between them.
>

IMO.... vista munches through ram...... heres where mine sits idle

2gb min

3gb for a great experience with OS operation

4gb for photo editing... film recoding.... gaming

8gb if your wallet is just weighing you down & you need to lighten the
load..

people dont seem to understand that to properly appreciate vistas speed
it needs alot of ram i don't think anything else in the machine affects
its performance as much as this ..



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Folks, all this discussion of ram, while valid, is irrelevant to the OP's
question which concerned a program called 3ds Max except as it might pertain
to 3ds Max's system requirements, which he did not state.

"shadow" <> wrote in message
news:6D6259FD-F113-4360-8755-...
> I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
> purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
> was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
> use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between
> the
> different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work
> well
> for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
> ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter
> which
> should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
> efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
> differences between them.
>

when you look at each edition's requirements you will find that the home
basic edition only requires a 512 mb of system ram and all the rest require a
1gb ram,which means that it's a lighter edition to me,thank you anyways for
your reply

"Rob van Albada" wrote:

> The half amount of RAM?
> I use Vista Home Premium on two computers. The first on has 1 GB RAM,
> the second 2 GB. Word-2007 runs a lot faster on the second computer,
> and I will buy more RAM for the first one as soon as I can.
> If you will be working with Home Premium I would certainly recommend
> having at least 2 GB RAM.
> With 'only' 1 GB it can be excruciatingly slow.
> For the rest I much prefer Vista over XP, which was a disaster to me.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rob.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:49:00 -0700, =?Utf-8?B?c2hhZG93?=
> <> wrote:
>
> >I'm absolutely eager to use vista,was in the states the past 3 weeks,and I
> >purchesed a vista home basic sp1 from circuit city in Santa Monica,I realy
> >was looking for the ultimate edition but couldn't find it,my question is I
> >use 3ds max and other 3d editing software,is there a difference between the
> >different vista editions concerning my use,or any one of them will work well
> >for me?cause I realized that the basic edition requires half the amount of
> >ram compared to the others which I think should mean that it's lighter which
> >should be best for me provided that it allows me to use my software as
> >efficient as the others and I would also need to know what are the basic
> >differences between them.
> >
>
>