Posted 08/05/2008 at 04:01:45pm

I have been using 64-bit XP for about three years now.  Made the switch to 64-Bit Vista six weeks ago.  I have had no issues with it.  It works great for me and it runs all my old applications.

Posted 08/02/2008 at 03:35:37pm

Edit: I must correct myself here.  I saw that a section of Creative's proprietary connector for their front panel I/O drive does indeed work with a standard HD audio connector!  Funny though, how Creative has not one mention of this in their documentation.

On the positive side, it looks like Creative finally got their Vista x64 drivers working right.

Posted 08/02/2008 at 02:36:56pm

I've been runnung Vista x64 SP1 for about six weeks now.  I'm happy with it and *gasp* I don't miss XP one bit.  I ran XP x64 for three years and Vista's latest incarnation is a lot less glitchy than XP.  All my apps and games work just fine, thank you.  Sorry to break the bad news.

Let the FUD machine grind on...

Posted 08/02/2008 at 02:35:21pm

Big whoop-tee-doo.  1 GB of RAM?  Well, I guess I can run Windows 95 real fast for about  4 minutes before the liquid N2 evaporates.  I want to see their system actually do something other than run synthetic benchmarks on an antiquated 32-bit memory model.  Show me something you can run 24/7 and then I'll be impressed.

Posted 07/24/2008 at 10:30:46am

It's rapidly becomming impossible to create any new software without infringing on some obscure software patent somewhere.  The patent system is seriously screwed up because too many things are now allowed to be patentable that were not 15 years ago.  Heck there is a 5 year backlog on software patenets alone! 

Posted 07/23/2008 at 11:17:19pm

Ditto.  I have run 64-bit XP since day one.  I now run 64-bit Vista.  Vista is a few orders of magnitude better than XP.  Today, its 64-bit XP with all the driver problems.

Posted 07/23/2008 at 04:43:42pm

Do you want to play a game?

Posted 07/23/2008 at 04:12:36pm

I just switched over to Vista x64 SP1 and I'm happy with it.  I even like it better than Windows XP now.  The initial release of Vista had lots of problems.

Posted 07/23/2008 at 01:04:00pm

I tried two Asus P5E3 Premium X48 motherboards.  I got the same result on both of 'em: Express gate could not find the network interface devices 9 out of 10 ten times I powered up the system.  Let Asus get it working reliably first, and then we'll see if it's useful.  Heck, even the Vista x64 drivers for this motherboard are just plain buggy junk.

The AI Lifestyle was just not for me...

Posted 07/22/2008 at 09:33:49pm

$$$ Cha-ching! $$$

The chroming does look good.  That case was a good surprise! :-)