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New HP notebook with Vista Ultimate
I bought a new notebook with the intent of editing while traveling. The notebook is an HP Pavilion dv9260us with the following components:
* Core 2 Duo Processor T7200 (2.0 GHz)
* 667 MHx front side bus
* 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM memory
* Two 120 GB SATA-150 hard drives (240 GB total)
* NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 video with 256 MB memoryThe notebook comes with the Windows Vista Ultimate OS.
Will Vegas 7 work with this operating system and if so, will the components be sufficient to edit SD video? Is there a patch available for use with Vista if not?
I have 14 days to return the unopened computer box but am leaving for Germany in 2 days, so any quick responses or suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
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I can answer question #2
Those components are very good for Vegas !!!Vista?
I know that while V7 was being designed that they were well aware that every new PC would be coming with Vista in just a few months !!
So if it is not compliant..I’d be surprised
I would download V7 as a trial , see how it handles.
Heck… Do it right now.
Put a restore point in before hand !But also read the sony web site for clues on “vista readiness”
Still a great laptop even if you have to wipe it and put in xp pro sp2 fresh.
you can always do a “system recovery” when it does become Vista compliant laterZipedit
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Looks like great hardware…
There’s lots of rabid complaining about Vista but several people over at the Vegas forum have tried it with Vista and are happy. Some have claimed that they actually get faster renders. (crazytalk, all of it! 😉 )
Here are the gotchas:
The media manager doesn’t work, but there are some workarounds, I think. The components just aren’t available in vista.
I have an HP destop system with a Vista build on it. I attached a USB drive to it and formated it, and found that there were no usable permissions set on the new drive. So you have to set permissions on some folders before Vegas can save media and project files. Not hard at all.
Rob Mack
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Aside from the media manager not working…Any other noticable differences.
Any thoughts on where we can get more info on this.
I thought there would be a lot more buzz in the forum about this.Zipedit
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Most of the “buzz” has been noise. People saying “no way will I ever use Vista and you’re a fool if you do you so-and-so”
What I’ve read on the Sony forum is that the few people who tried it found their render times were comaprable. Most of the drm issues have been hypothetical or on principle. Commercial HD titles generally don’t have the worrisome tags set on them-not yet anyway and presumably not for a couiple of years. Generally, users who can find their backsides without help have been okay with Vista.
Vista is not 64-bit unless you buy a 64-bit version (or, I gather if you buy it in a box you can install the 64bit version) this means you’re still limited to 2GB per program unless you install 64bit.
Graphics drivers are still in their infancy for Vista.
Personally, I’d wait. Last I checked you could still buy business laptops with WinXP, which is the safer course for now. One thing I think we’ll see is hardware manufacturers missapplying some of the hardware restrictions of HDCP – making hardware refuse to play full rez when they didn’t have to. So I’d wait quite a while.
Rob Mack
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Oh, and Dcus’s notebook is probably just fine for Vegas. He just wont be able to use the media manager.
Rob
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