Vista Home 64 VS Ultimate 64

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Compequip

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For those brave souls using Vista, I have a question. What would you recommend between the two, Home 64 SP1 or Ultimate 64 SP1 for $70.00 more. I looked it up and it just showed protect your data against loss, scan and fax doc., and protect against hardware failure and what does this mean? Thanks again for all your help. I'm almost ready to purchase everything for my new build.
 
Compequip said:
For those brave souls using Vista, I have a question. What would you recommend between the two, Home 64 SP1 or Ultimate 64 SP1 for $70.00 more. I looked it up and it just showed protect your data against loss, scan and fax doc., and protect against hardware failure and what does this mean? Thanks again for all your help. I'm almost ready to purchase everything for my new build.
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You know its funny how bad of a name vista has now, just because the bugs it had during its beta/launch. It really is as stable as XP now and to me easier to use. Anyway I used to have home premium (which I assume you are talking about) on my old rig, now I have Ultimate and the only thing different I've noticed is Vista asking me if I want to install optional Ultimate updates. So yea there's really not that big of a difference, but it's up to you.
 
personally iv have gone for home premium and works well. i dont c the point in ultimate, as far as i know if has like 4 programs added to it and you can join a domain. but like tknick90 said, it is up to you.
something you may want to do is go for OEM not retail, its far cheaper.
 
Compequip said:
For those brave souls using Vista, I have a question. What would you recommend between the two, Home 64 SP1 or Ultimate 64 SP1 for $70.00 more. I looked it up and it just showed protect your data against loss, scan and fax doc., and protect against hardware failure and what does this mean? Thanks again for all your help. I'm almost ready to purchase everything for my new build.
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I had a lot of program issues and problems with Vista Home so I decided to try Ultimate x64 someone on board suggested it.

I gotta say I love it I went from hating vista to loving it. Once I get my quad I will really love it. 95% of all the programs I have tried over 1 month of using it have worked.
Also main reason people hate vista is it became "cool" to hate it. Most that hated it never used it. I hated it by using it ^-^ then SP1 brought me back and I love it now.

Local PC store gives me free installs so Ultimate might not be so good for some because of its price.
 
we are being drawn in by there advertising-

they say ultimate-you think the best!!!

its not, its a few extra things compared to home premium

check what you want and have a look at what there offering-dont think cos its ultimate its gonna be amazing compared to the other versions
 
if you need fax or to join a corporate network, you must get ultimate

otherwise home is fine (under no circumstance get basic!!!!! premium only!)
 
cohen said:
And it is, at least that is what i think, you can remote desktop in it, and can remote desktop a XP machine, unlike vista home premium :P
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yeh but thats what im getting at-not everyone wants to do that but premium is the best and everyone must get it cos there is no better!!!!

dont listen to the advertising, listen to yourself and what you need then decide!!!
 
funkysnair said:
yeh but thats what im getting at-not everyone wants to do that but premium is the best and everyone must get it cos there is no better!!!!

dont listen to the advertising, listen to yourself and what you need then decide!!!
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Exactly!
 
Im thinking of moving to a 64bit os system.

Right now im on windows XP SP3. I have it visually setup like windows 98 with how the start menu looks, the folder windows look and everything else, mainly cause I feel like I have more control over the folders, icons, applications and options, and its not so automated.

Anyways, will it be worth switching to Vista or the 64bit version of XP?

Vista doesnt seem too bad as long as I can keep the looks to a pretty basic win98/xp look.

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xp x64 doesnt use normal service packs because its not in fact xp

under the hood its server 2003 sp1, and you can apply server 2003 sp2 to it

driver support in it is terrible.
 
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