Re: Will RDi finally support 64 bit OS? -- WDSCI-L

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-----Original Message-----

From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

[mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Colorado

Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:28 PM
To: wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Will RDi finally support 64 bit OS?

By the way, how happy are you with Vista 64? I've heard of a good bunch

of compatibility problems

and lack of drivers. How about performance?

Performance is much better than anticipated, and compatibility is not a
huge deal for me other that WDSCi.

That said, I am running 8 GB RAM on a fairly new PC. If I could get 8
GB to work in XP I am sure the performance would be better. I am
running the Vista SP1 RC, which made a night & day difference in regards
to performance. I noticed that Vista 64 eats up 1.1 GB of RAM at idle,
so 2 GB should be considered a bare minumum. If you need to run WDSC in
a VM, then 64 bit OS and 4 GB should be the minimum, so you can dedicate
1.5 or 2 GB to the WDSCi virtual machine.

The only two driver issues I have had are Palm Desktop and the driver
for my Philips Pronto. Both of these work fine in an XP virtual
machine, so not a deal breaker for me.

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