Hi all,

sorry I couldn't help it :-)

flames on

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-chooseavista_480x376.mov

flames off

Juergen

James Stroud wrote:

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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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




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