New Laptop

[ROBERT J CRITELLI JR]

I AM looking for a new laptop and was wondering if anyone was running windows vista premium? mastercams web site with the dell laptop says to use vista business or ultimate.will premium work. I also wanted to know if anyone was using amd processors and how they worked. i am running the latest version x2mr2 sp?? router

[Colin Gilchrist]

Be very afraid of Vista.

 

I would run XP Pro and nothing else.

[Ployd]

I've seen some threads where a few people are running it. But I'm with Colin. I'd wait on Vista.

 

Here is a link to the benchmark for computers and processing time. I know it is a long thread, but well worth the read, from start to finish, before you buy a new computer.

 

benchmark

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I RUN AS FAS AS I COULD away from Vista. It's the mother of all resource hogs.

 

JM2C

[Todd84]

I have Vista premium on my personal laptop (XPS 1530) I Don't use it that much for Mastercam. It will work but I don't recomend it. My XPS is NOT my Mastercam laptop. I do some Lathe work on it though. I am running an Intel core 2 duo 2.4ghz and 4 gig of ram.

[DavidSV]

Most people who complain about Vista have never used it. I have Vista Home Premium on my laptop and have no problems using MC with it when I need to. Its a little slower only because its a Pentium M 1.86GHZ with 2Gigs of ram.

[crazy^millman]

David not most people here. Got Vista and have all the latest and greatest updates for it. I have 4 gig and still a hog and slow compared to the same box running XP.

 

HTH

[Guest]

I agree Ron, I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit on a P4 3ghz with 2 gigs Ram and it's slow and suc*s. So no not everyone who complains "doesn't try it"

 

As I have said to a few people, if your doing simple 2D flat stuff you might get by with it. I have brought in complex 3D models and it is a dog, there is a video clip around of one of them dancing right off the screen.

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

I have a laptop with Vista with an AMD processor and for Mill-1 type stuff it's OK. It has NVIDIA 6150 graphics.

[Jay Kyle]

I'm running Vista on all my computers now. There's been some growing pain and it definitely requires optimization to get it to run smoothly (re: good video drivers which are now out). Also ensuring the auto level increase is turned on so your not always asked the "accept or deny" questions. Also when you map network drives, ensure you map them in the enhanced (administrator) level as well to avoid some network programs from not running right.

 

My personal laptop is a Dell M90 running 4 GB of RAM. The biggest "hog" part that folks notice is the system loading the cache everytime it's restarted, and the indexing going on. The trick is to never turn off your computer, just put it into sleep mode.

 

Jay

 

..resistance is futile.. you will be assimulated.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I have a guniea pig at home with Vista Business...

 

I'm getting ready to do some tests to give some actual numbers to my rant... so far... NOT the way to go just playing around with it.