My computer not only runs faster (understatement) but it is also more stable than I have ever seen it. It blazes through every task. Nothing slows it down. Memory management is the best I've ever seen, and although I haven't been using it very long, I really don't want to go back.
I'll eventually have to rollback, however, for a few reasons:
- The trial only last 120 days.
- I don't have the money to throw around on a new OS.
- I really don't like throwing money I do spend on an OS at Microsoft.
- For now, I'm stuck with the one and only crappy version of MS MCE 2005.
Although driver support isn't quite there, and of course programs and games haven't been optimized for the 64-bit platform, the next question in your mind is "How is the backwards compatibility?"... or maybe not. Maybe you haven't even thought of that. But thanks to M$' WoW32 Emulator, they can all run on the new OS. For you HL players, Valve has released a 64-bit version of its engine via steam. Our friend (not literal) Illrigger further down the post believes that the emulator eats up system resources like Aunt Bertha on Thanksgiving, but I would have to question his cunningness as a computer person if he is experiencing problems. I found Vx64 to half my resources in most cases. I just thought that you, the reader, should hear both sides of the opinionated story.
As for the 64-bit HL, I'll soon be jumping on that bandwagon and I will post an update on how that goes.
Microsoft Windows XP x64 | 78% Approval
Pros: FAST, stable | Cons: Lacking Support for now.
No comments:
Post a Comment