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Avid MC and Windows Vista
Has anyone heard if and when Avid is coming out with an update for Windows Vista?
Tim T
Fence Post Creative
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May it never happen. Vista is a mess. I am hearing many problems. Higher end workstations sell with XP as an option insteaod of Vista because Vista deemed undesireable by many. XP solid today.
Avid relies not much on APIs that they have to patch deep in program core every time. This is why updates are slow after service packs, and very slow after OS version changes. Rely on Avid’s recommended set up for XP. You benefit, or the Vista big footprint will take memory away you could use. Avid will comply eventually, but I will stay with XP as long as possible. Vista offers little benefit for anything except mild security.
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[Geoff Haas] “Vista is a mess. I am hearing many problems.”
I would qualify that – it’s a mess if you try to slap it into a low-end machine. I just got an new HP machine (3gb of RAM, 3ghz dual core AMD processors) for home stuff. Vista is not as bad as I thought it would be. It does have quirks (the first thing I did was turn off the user account controls). I’ve got some older software that runs fine – once it tells me it won’t. I just click through and everything works. After Effects and Photoshop seem to run fine, although I haven’t run anything at all intensive.
I’m no tech head, but I suspect once they get the kinks worked out, Vista will be one of the most stable platforms we’ve had in a while. I do agree, though – stick with XP until Avid works out the bugs.
Jon
“So you want to throw out the old you – but the old you is old enough to know it won’t make it better”
Del Amitri – “Make it Better”
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