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Subject: Re: Vista
From: James Stroud jstroud {- at -} MBI {- dot -} UCLA {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2008-02-20

For those who risk becoming blinded and/or deafened by the vista bells
and whistles:

http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/1FE803ADF0486D06CC2573990069A75D

"The bottom line: It's Vista's architecture and feature set -- Barth
cited Volume Shadow Copy, Vista's snapshot service, as an example --
not a lack of fine-tuning or bug fixes that makes it perform poorly on
PCs that run Windows XP blazingly fast."

Frankly, I don't run windows (and wouldn't think of it, except on a
VM), so I don't have any special allegiances to either XP or Vista.
But if you *must* have windows, you should seriously consider XP for
crystallography, especially if you think performance might be an
issue. Also bear in mind that the time between the release of vista
and SP1 was over a year, so performance improvements might be a ways
off if you decide to go with Vista.

James

On Feb 20, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Avinash Gill wrote:

> I have been using CCP4MG, Chimera, O for Windows, Wincoot, and the
> entire CCP4 suite (including running Refmac and Phaser through the
> CCP4i interface) on my Windows Vista laptop for the past 9-10 months
> without any issues. It has worked very well for me, and I have found
> Vista to be much more stable than XP.
>
> Regards.
>
> Avi.
>
> On Feb 20, 2008 3:11 PM, deena wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am about to buy a laptop and find that the XP is twice the price
> of Vista. Does anyone have positive experience using Vista for
> crystallographic packages: CCP4, Coot, O, X-plor? or must I still
> avoid it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deena
>
> Deena Abells Oren, PhD
> Manager, Structural Biology Resource Center
> Rockefeller University
> 1230 York Avenue
> New York, NY 10065-6399
> phone: 212- 327-7429
> fax: 212-327-7389
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,
> Avinash Gill
> Dartmouth Medical School
> Biochemistry Dept
> HB 7200 Vail Bldg
> Hanover NH 03755
> Phone: (O) 603-650-1174
> *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,

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