What is the difference between different versions of Vista - Ultimate, Home Basic etc.. is there anything significant or is it mostly just for show ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_editions

 

Ultimate is the whole package

Business is Ultimate minus DVD authoring, media center and disk encryption

Enterprise is Business with disk encryption

Home Premium is Ultimate with out the disk encryption

Home basic is the bare minimum that is still called Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/default.mspx

 

I have both Business and Vista compliments of Microsoft...they love to give away software at their conferences.

 

I like Ultimate because of Hold-Em and Mahjong

I can't stand Vista, it's like the new Mac OS X, just meant to look good, and be 'easy' to use, and unfortunately for MS, it's neither.

I really think that Vista is only good for very good computers, otherwise it just sucks.

I can't stand Vista, it's like the new Mac OS X, just meant to look good, and be 'easy' to use, and unfortunately for MS, it's neither.

I really think that Vista is only good for very good computers, otherwise it just sucks.

 

Yea I have no problem with Vista...it runs faster than my XP setup. Vista is not just ment to look good -- there are a lot of underlying difference, but unfortunatly thats what consumers just see(eye candy).

The only good feature I can think of is Super-fetch, or whatever it's called, and even that isn't all the great...

something similar can be done on linux as well. put your swap partition on a USB drive and you can get a bit more speed. technically, linux has the more versatile implementation as you can do it with any arbitrary storage device from USB flash drives to floppy drives(although floppy drives will detract from performance.

something similar can be done on linux as well. put your swap partition on a USB drive and you can get a bit more speed. technically, linux has the more versatile implementation as you can do it with any arbitrary storage device from USB flash drives to floppy drives(although floppy drives will detract from performance.

 

 

I think you are confusing system-fetch with ready boost.

oh the pre loading system, yeah, linux has two of those, preload and prefetch. they perform slightly different tasks but it amounts to the same, caching your favourite programs on startup.

So it just basically accomplishes the same thing?

yep. pretty much.

 

a linux system will actually get faster the longer you leave it running because it optimizes the cache and filesystem as you go along.

I have Home Premium and it works just fine (for the most part) but it does have a problem with being a little to over protective.