Which Vista should i buy ?

[desgnr]

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I am looking at a new Dell that comes with Vista Home

I am thinking of upgrading it to Vista Home Premium.
Would that be a better choice ?

Should i add a Fax Modem ?
( Will i be able to Fax from Home Premium, i did'nt see any information
about Faxing with Home Premium )

 

[Dominic Payer]

Home Premium may be better if you will use the extras it offers.

Fax is included only with Vista Business and Ultimate. If you want fax with
Home Premium you will need some fax software as well. Some US Robotics
modems include Vista compatible Classic Phone Tools which will do the job.

 

[peter]

Home premium is better than Home Basic
Ultimate is better than Home Premium

If you Fax a lot add a modem...or use an email/fax converter Company/website

peter

 

[Tim Slattery]

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I am looking at a new Dell that comes with Vista Home

I am thinking of upgrading it to Vista Home Premium.
Would that be a better choice ?

Look here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2068721,00.asp
for a comparison of Vista versions. Home Premium offers the Aero
interface, scheduled backup, some games, Media Center, Movie Maker,
DVD Maker in addition to what Home Basic offers.

Should i add a Fax Modem ?
( Will i be able to Fax from Home Premium, i did'nt see any information
about Faxing with Home Premium )

Fax software is not included with Home Basic or Home Premium, but
third party packages are available.

 

[John]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Home Premium has the Aero user experience (glass dynamic windows etc) look.
Vista Home doesn't contain this, so for the 'eye candy' Premium is better.

The Windows Fax and Scan isn't available on Premium, for that you need
Ultimate, Enterprise or Business; however, as other have said you can always
use a third party fax application if you need faxing capability.

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[kenny]

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I am looking at a new Dell that comes with Vista Home

I am thinking of upgrading it to Vista Home Premium.
Would that be a better choice ?

Should i add a Fax Modem ?
( Will i be able to Fax from Home Premium, i did'nt see any information
about Faxing with Home Premium )

Get a total of 4Gb of memory installed - nothing less!

If you don't, whatever Vista version you get either won't work or will run
as slow as a snail.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

My machine runs just fine on 2GB RAM, Kenny and I use some pretty memory
intensive applications. I agree that the more memory the better but even
with 2GB RAM a machine certainly doesn't run at snail pace.

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[DiDi]

Dell Vista Ultimate 32BIT is the best if you ask me. Vista does not
recognize 4 GB Memory, and it uses 2 GB of memory itself. 3 GB memory is
ideal. 4 is a waste of money unless they throw it in for free and something
in the future develops a use for it.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Dell Vista Ultimate 32BIT is the best if you ask me. Vista does not
recognize 4 GB Memory, and it uses 2 GB of memory itself. 3 GB memory is
ideal. 4 is a waste of money unless they throw it in for free and something
in the future develops a use for it.

This is a conglomeration of received wisdom, some right, some not.

32-bit Vista can't actually use 4GB of RAM, that's true. Some of its
4GB address space must be used to access video RAM, BIOS, and a few
other things. What's left over can be used for system RAM, usually 3
and a quarter to 3 and a half GB. 64-bit Vista does not have this
limitation.

As for Vista using 2GB for itself: not exactly. Each process in 32-bit
vista gets a 4GB virtual address space. By default, that space is
divided evenly: 2GB for the program, 2GB for the system. Remember that
this is VIRTUAL memory, not PHYSICAL RAM. Bits and pieces of many
virtual memory spaces will be in RAM at the same time, more bits and
pieces will be on the swap file. It's the virtual memory manager's job
to keep track of what's where and to move less-used bits to the swap
file to make room for needed bits.