To Stay with XP pro or not

4hDad · Post by **4hDad** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:23 pm

Folks,

I am in the process of buying a fairly robust system (see below). My problem is that DELL can¡¦t customize Windows XP Pro with a Blu-ray Burner. They can only combine the Blue-Ray burner with Windows Vista. I hear Windows Vista is rather unstable and not recommended for video editing. At the same time, Windows XP Pro and non-blue-ray burners are on their way out of what you would consider current technology.

Question

Would you go with a Windows Vista/Blue-ray burner or stick with XP Pro and a Blue-ray reader only.

XPS 720 Black Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E6850 (4MB L2 Cache,3.0GHz,1333 FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Media Center 2005 Edition with re-installation CD
Memory 3GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
Hard Drive 500GB - Seagate 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 16MB Cache
Optical Drive Blu-ray Disc Combo (DVD+/-RW + BD-ROM)
Monitors 22 inch UltraSharp™ 2208WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
Video Cards nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

I would appreciate your advice.

Many Thanks!!

4HDad

skier-hughes · Post by **skier-hughes** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:34 pm

Didn't know blu ray wouldn't work with XP so a little looking at Panasonic and other sites I found this on the first hit,

Panasonic said the drive will be compatible with all forms of Windows XP and Vista - drivers are included in the box - and will come bundled with Blu-ray ready versions of CyberLink's disc tools, including PowerDVD, PowerBackup and PowerProducer.

I wonder why Dell can't make it work??

Windows Vista is very stable on vista prepared pc's, and even most other vista compatible "XP" pc's.

I've used it since Beta 1 and had very few problems at all.

As this is in the VS forum, I suppose you'll use VS, so as long as it is VS11 then I can't see a problem with having Vista.

As for Blu ray burner and vista and XP and reader, well if you need/want to make Blu Ray discs then there are two options, vista and burner or use another reseller who'll combine XP and burner.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:00 am

Or dual-boot with XP AND Vista

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:07 am

I now have Vista on 3 of my computers -- two which were recently built with Vista in mind, and the third an older P4 3.0 MHz which previously ran XP Pro. Vista runs extremely well and is quite stable on all 3 and I can use all of them for video editing and authoring using Vista and VS or MF and other editing programs. There are one or two issues between VS and Vista, but Vista itself is fine...

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:41 pm

I haven't had major problems with VS11.5+ and Vista 64 Bit.

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:59 pm

My vista install also runs quite well.
I think the thing with Vista is only install Vista programs. Be careful installing some programs that work on XP and not certified for Vista.

Installing mpeg4 codecs K-Lite codec packs designed for XP that share the codecs with the system don't seem to work well in Vista.

I have VLC & Super installed on Vista but they don't share anything with the OS and run using their own codecs.

It only takes one application or codec to disrupt everything.
Vista is not XP.

My latest computer came with Vista, I installed some more Hard disks and it's now Dual-Boot into Vista or XP. The OS installs are on separate drives.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:51 am

Whilst Vista has nice eye candy and also IS stable, the problem that most users have is that they have lots and lots and lots of software they acquired before Vista was released.
The cost of all this software far exceeds the cost of a new computer with Vista pre-installed and so for an existing user who is forced to upgrade to Vista - perhaps due to a failing old computer

Then there are two choices relating to your old existing software.

1. Upgrade all of your existing software so that it is Vista compatible
or
2. Create a Dual Boot Vista/XP System

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:49 am

I have an old copy of Pagemaker that runs fine under Vista as does Photoshop CS2

They were the three programs I was more concerned about (incl VS11.5+)

4hDad · Post by **4hDad** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:19 pm

Thank you all for your insightful comments!!

4HDAD

sjj1805 wrote:Whilst Vista has nice eye candy and also IS stable, the problem that most users have is that they have lots and lots and lots of software they acquired before Vista was released.
The cost of all this software far exceeds the cost of a new computer with Vista pre-installed and so for an existing user who is forced to upgrade to Vista - perhaps due to a failing old computer

Then there are two choices relating to your old existing software.

1. Upgrade all of your existing software so that it is Vista compatible
or
2. Create a Dual Boot Vista/XP System