for the music producers, any thing worthwhile with vista. or is it just a resource hog making it more advantageous to stick with xp? I turn off all the fancy smancy stuff in xp as it is, so unless theres anything special, i couldn't see a real point.

Wait for service pack 318. Then buy Vista.

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^ any notable improvement you can see in vista for production?

Okay. I don't get it. This is something I've complained about before, and so have millions of others.

Every Windows upgrade requires MORE resources to run. But Microsoft SAYS it will run faster.

This is illogical. Build the fastest computer you can, and use the most lightweight operating system possible.

This is my OPINION though. I personally think why would you waste the money for something that is going to have bugs from the get-go, something that is going to SLOW DOWN you're computer because you won't have the greater equivelent of power for Vista. It's not worth it.

However, Create Digital Music did interview a Cakewalk guy who worked with Vista for a while:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/...-cakewalks-cto/

The only thing that seems to be worthwhile is that Vista is WaveRT:

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WaveRT is the new Vista architecture for high-performance, real-time, low-latency audio drivers, designed for pro audio. The streaming model for such drivers is somewhat like [Steinberg?s] ASIO and [Windows? previous driver model] DirectKS, but there are important differences. The WaveRT signal flow permits direct access to the internal audio hardware buffers and sample position counters, allowing a DAW application to stream audio to the hardware in the most efficient manner possible.

However this is only worthwhile if say, you have a DAW that takes advantage of WaveRT, or your hardware uses WaveRT drivers (this is my assumtion here).

Just wait. Be patient. When Vist gets more fixes, and comes down in price, then consider buying it.


EDIT:

PS, This was a joke

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Originally posted by wrzonance Wait for service pack 318. Then buy Vista.

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thx for the info...i'm not in a rush to get it now anyways, just wanted to see if there was any advantages to getting it. Like many others, i'll need a computer upgrade to make it worthwhile, but that was on my list anyways, vista aside.

actually i've found that xp runs faster (for most things) and is more stable than 2000 pro. i don't think you should go for the lightest OS possible....like installing windows 98....it would be very quick, but it probably would be crashing like crazy trying to run the increasingly complex programs of today.

programs usually run best on the OS that they were designed for...

Has anybody ever tried Tiny XP?

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Originally posted by thesuperfunk Has anybody ever tried Tiny XP?

No... but it's downloading right now. I'll let you know what I think.

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I'm going to stick with XP and linux...

I'm done with Microsoft's bullshit.

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Originally posted by thesuperfunk Has anybody ever tried Tiny XP?

its awesome i use it on my production pc and my laptop.

If you strip vista down you can get similar performance to XP, if not better, because of the kernel redesign. But by strip down, I mean strip it down to basically being windows xp - no aero, no indexing, no unnecessary services.

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Originally posted by thesuperfunk Has anybody ever tried Tiny XP?

Yes, it's crap.
Get nLite and do it yourself, the results are much better.