Well...actually... she says politely there is a point...32 bit is backward compatible with most hardware and 99% software so ....

"The Other Side".... I LIKE Vista, however I have found some nifty things to help my eye strain... found if I run it in the Windows Standard I can make the blinding white backgrounds of explorer, my mail program, note pad etc, all a nice muted white/gray color!! Nice on the eyeballs! :))  and of course on my 22 inch LCD...wooo hoooo!!! I was not used to wide screen... PUSH IT BACK FROM YOU....my son said... hee hee! Details I never dreamed of seeing... gosh my TV looks blurry and dull now... oh oh!!! ;)

We did take the extra 2 gigs of super ram OUT because good old Microsoft STILL has an OS that will not USE the 4 gigs of ram if you are using Vista 32 bit....and the 64 bit for the 4 gigs of ram is SO not backward compatible....so here I am with half my OLD programs installed....I mean REALLY old programs....and they are running fine... (got lot's more installing to do)...

AND!! Vue 5 Infinite runs in OPEN HARDWARE GL LIKE A BAT OUT OF ****.... rendering a pic that took 3-40 minutes on old machine took 6 minutes...been pushing and testing all over... and actually decided not to retrain myself or bother with vue 6 infinite as I am very relaxed with vue 5 (even more so now) and I have so much content, why deal with 6 when it will not use ALL the ton of 5 content (plants and objects mainly) I have all set up in 5.... I can't wait to see what the teeny bit glitchy eco system in vue 5 does now that I have this super fast "everything" ....and of course knowing my vue 5.11 LOVES my Poser 6.3 just fine.... my 4 window vue updates truly simultaneously in open gl!! :))

I don't care that I had to go to (display properties) - "windows standard" to get the "gray application background" enabled ....actually it's the bottom "window" choice to do this, - the a funky or rough looking explorer is no big deal...more important to save my eyes than "glitz" and everything else in programs and web sites looks BEYOND GORGEOUS AND 3D-ISH.... !!

I LOVE IE7.... it's pretty, easy to use and it's native pop up blocker is SO EASY to use, (now that google has gotten really nasty invasive - only my own opinion) and then there is the BUBBLES screen saver everyone likes... LOL!! Pretty... and hypnotizing!! :)

I find vista HELP really honestly helpful now, and things very visual and easy to find... even dyslexic.. of course my wizard son who is there to guide me through all the things with the new interface and also with the new anti-virus we use that is commercial, up and coming compitition to the two invasive main ones on the market - (boy does it find those spy cookies fast!!) program that covers every single thing for me.... and on and on...

I am HAPPY with my sleek black hot machine and I love learning to get around in it... Poser 6 now loads it's single 90 gig runtime (from a cold boot) in 3 minutes, that is sooo fast from before... vista LEARNS stuff like xp was supposed to....and when I had a major lock up of both poser (when I was test pushing it - third dressed lady was the killer- LOL) and task manager even locked up, the system recovered really easy with a restart...and funny... the poser ladies - all three of them NEVER "went white" like when poser says it can't handle the memory/texture stuff...just don't try rendering three...but that is poser's limits!

All in all this new ram is soooo advanced, my hard drive so fast, my video so hulking, my duel core cpu... it all helps shave hours off my "drumming fingers waiting on our fav software times!" My "Serial ATA" hard drive (greek to me, my son said just call it an SATA drive (not listed in my original post) of course helps all too....now to get a FIRE WIRE external for my back up - better and bigger than the usb external I have now....

I can not speak to any software above what I am using...I have no need for vue 6 nor poser 7, so am very happy where I am, with the added power and pretty LCD monitor... oh my GOSH, everyone's art looks 1000's times better even! LOL!!!

One happy Vista user! ;)

Lyne

PS: One thing I forgot to put in my "other side story" I will paste below, is that my son said he NEVER makes a machine where the main person is not the ADMINISTRATOR (unless it is a child's machine)....I heard a lot of how you have to be that for some functions in vista...so aside from a couple of oldie but goodie programs installing twice - all things are fine...or I get a little note are you sure you want/can do this, - I go yes...and it will do the task... I am "king...er Queen" of my machine and it knows it! ROFL!! :))

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!