xp 64 bit and ram

[The_Laughing_Man]

I`ve been running Win 7 64 bit on my quadcore studio mainframe
Really really happy with it to be honest.
I`ve found it so stable I finally switched my Live PA Laptop over to Win 7 as well, and 32 gigs in I have had no hiccups (bar a problem with a firewire card getting pulled out during a set)
Some developers need to catch up and make more Win 7 functionality and exploit it more, but it is early days.
Ableton works great with it, as does all my mastering and authoring software.
Gonna go solid state for my system drives soon I think, eliminate moving parts!!!!
Disk defragmenting is a thing of the past with modern systems now.

So glad I finally dropped XP now

[Elvio Neto]

windows 7 x64 its the best microsoft OS ever made , stable and fast

many people like XP becouse it gives them a "false" sensation of speed (XP have a very light graphic interface and thats all)

windows 7 x64 manages all cores of the processor and all ram (XP only can use 2 cores of the processor if im not wrong)

working in heavy tasks like compressing, uncompressing, moving big files etc you can notice a boost of almoust 20% with windows 7 x64

win7 dont crash like XP becouse all system Threads run independently (thats why consumes more ram)

winXP have alot of system threads attached to one single file (when something goes wrong half of the system hang or crash) in win7 just the app in error quit the system dont even crash

i only recomend windows xp for old processors with 1 core