Does anyone here have Windows Vista Ultimate?

William769

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Mon Nov-05-07 02:33 PM
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Does anyone here have Windows Vista Ultimate?

I upgraded from premium this morning. It's AWESOME!

Dream Scene just knocks my socks off.

I have several high def videos from my vacation this year and by the end of the week, I will have some dream scene files on my website for downoad.

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DS1

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Mon Nov-05-07 03:18 PM
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1. it's cool, but I'm picky about where my cpu cycles are being used

and there's not enough coolness for my system to have a 20% overhead just for video wallpapers

and has anyone used the aero-window switch? alt-tab is still just fine to me :shrug:

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William769

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Mon Nov-05-07 03:54 PM
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2. My desk top to has 4 gigs of memory and about a gig on the graphics accelerator card.

My lap top has to gigs of memory. I have everything full throttle on my laptop with no problems.

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Deja Q

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:49 PM
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5. Same here. DirectX 10 helps shuttle processing on the GPU rather than the CPU too.

So even on my antiquated system (Athlon 4200+ w/4GB RAM, maybe I can get away with a dual 8800 SLI configuration without suffering CPU bottlenecking...)

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Rude Horner

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:47 PM
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3. I have it on a couple boxes

Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 05:48 PM by Rude Horner

that I built myself for home. Then again, I'm a known early adopter. :) Figured I'd get an early jump on it, since I'll be supporting it someday (I'm in the IT field).

I do not use the aero window switchy thing. For eye candy, it's kinda neat, but I never think to use it.

One of my boxes is a Home Theater PC. Hooked it up to my 50" high def TV, and I use the Windows Media Center that comes with Vista as a shell for all my pictures, music, and DVD's. Works great.

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Deja Q

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:48 PM
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4. Desktop AND laptop

:thumbsup:

Especially when they released the final, non-beta - it's a bit more stable. :)

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CatholicEdHead

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Mon Nov-05-07 07:14 PM
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6. Yep, have Ultimate here

Still discovering all the added features from Home Premium. Still wish I had XP Pro on this box though.

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