Vista or XP?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Maverick74, Nov 18, 2007.

  1. Main difference as far as trading is in the networking features of XP Pro. I don't know the details, but the tech guys in my clearing firm will not allow an XP Home based OS on their network for trading.
     
    #21     Nov 18, 2007
  2. sammybea

    sammybea

    #22     Nov 29, 2007
  3. gnome

    gnome

    For trading it really should not matter whether the "bugs have been worked out of Vista". XP Pro will be around until about 2015, or so (at least on "extended support"), so one would never be REQUIRED to upgrade to Vista (or, would that actually be a downgrade?).

    Vista is all about eye candy and DX10 for gaming. Neither of those apply to a trading machine.
     
    #23     Nov 29, 2007
  4. Retired

    Retired

  5. hcour

    hcour Guest

    Been running Vista for a while now. No problems, nada. Never had a blue screen. No compatibility problems. Very stable. Faster than XP on my system. Fast, seamless install.

    H
     
    #25     Nov 30, 2007
  6. nove

    nove

    Is it really faster or did you have an old xp install that had slowed down because you hadn't reinstalled recently?
     
    #26     Nov 30, 2007
  7. hcour

    hcour Guest

    Oh, I keep my system lean and clean on a regular basis. Besides, my last clean install of XP had been on the system less than a year when I did the new Vista install. It's definitely faster.

    Just relating my experience. As always, YMMV.

    H
     
    #27     Nov 30, 2007
  8. nove

    nove

    Thanks H,

    I am planning to try the SP3 beta thats been reviewed well. It seems reasonably far along the beta track so hopefully I wont need a quick Acronis restore to recover from it.
     
    #28     Nov 30, 2007
  9. I have two DELL laptops, one bought three years ago running XP.

    And one bought three months ago running Vista, which i bought for my wife.

    The Vista one has blue screened twice since we got it, and my wife doesnt use it that much. Ive never seen a blue screen on my XP laptop even after three years of very heavy use.
     
    #29     Nov 30, 2007
  10. AK100

    AK100

    Vista is awful, get XP.
     
    #30     Nov 30, 2007