I'm going to be upgrading from 32 bit Vista + hard drive to 64 bit Win7 + SSD within the next several months. As soon as my wedding season is over, I'm taking the plunge.
To be perfectly honest, I've had no serious issues with Vista. Yeah, its a little more "heavy" than XP, but with computers as fast as they are today, I don't see it as a big issue. Aside from that, Vista has been stable as a rock for me and I've been happy. My primary reason for upgrading is that if I'm going 64 bit, I might as well get the latest operating system at the same time.
I went from XP Pro 32 -> Windows 7 Pro 64 and so far no major issues. I added more RAM (8gb total) and everything is noticably quicker.
The installer for CS4 will install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Photoshop on your machine as 32-bit plugins don't work with 64-bit PS.
JAMIE: if you're upgrading from XP32 -> Win7 64 here's what you need to do (the Win7 upgrade will not let you upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit directly - it won't run if you stick the upgrade CD into the drive while booted to XP).
1) Boot off the Win7 64 Upgrade DVD
2) Install Win 7 per the DVD
3) Important: When prompted for the CD Key LEAVE IT BLANK and complete the install
4) After Win7 boots...run the upgrade install again. This time your CD Key will work as you are "upgrading" from a qualifying O/S (64-bit -> 64-bit)
LERtastic wrote:
I still don't understand what everyone hated about Vista, I've been using it for 18 months now and have had no problems.
Oh, and Chrome FTW.
Vista 64bit coupled with a LOT of hardware has performed perfectly for me. Going to Win 7 was a no-brainer as it has all of the nice visuals of Vista with the core performance of XP / 2000.
For that matter, with the current hardware that is out now, building a super hot rod machine has never been easier and cheaper.
core-i7 920, 12Gb Corsair Triple channel, ATI 4890 1Gb, 6 Terabytes disk storage. Runs cool, runs stable, just works. And.....
upgrading my EXISTING hardware without replacing the entire machine
