Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: (OT) - Do I need Windows 7 Professional? (And My New Computer)

Photopium opened this issue on Feb 18, 2010 ยท 19 posts

3DNeo posted Thu, 18 February 2010 at 11:49 PM

There are several differences between Windows 7 "Home", "Professional" and "Ultimate". The biggest factors between Home and the others are two VERY important facts:

  1. Pro and Ultimate can support more than one CPU. Home can NOT, it only supports one.

  2. Home only supports up to 16GB RAM. Pro and Ultimate up to 192GB.

For me that matters a LOT because I use a lot of very high-end 3D software that takes advantage of multi-CPUs and as much RAM as you have available. If you plan to do very complex scenes or get into a lot of 3D art with programs like Vue, Modo, C4D, etc. I would highly recommend Pro or Ultimate and as much RAM as you can afford.

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.