Vista or XP best for phoenix RC?

[ed_vh]

I am now using phoenix which is great and my flying comming on a bit. Unfortunately I only have a PC at work so I am thinking of putting XP or Vista on my mini mac (intel) at home (crys of horror for some PCers I know) but I just wondered if either XP or Vista is heavier on resources? My mac has 1gb ram and only has built in doesn't have 128mb graphics card

Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory

so it is going to be a close call to see if it works. Any thoughts on which may be the bet PC operating system to get?

And before you ask I can't change the mac to a PC at the moment. It is either try it on my mini mac or be stuck with it just at work.

Thanks

Ed

[TinyChopper]

Vista is the heavier on system resources by far, I would go with XP. Though the obvious advice would be "get a PC"!

[richieclarkie]

I agree.

Use Xp if you can. Vista has given me no end of troubles and I'm just reistalling XP on a PC right now.

[TinyChopper]

Upgrading to Vista seems to be the quickest way to effectivly downgrade your hardware, I will be leaving it alone for a year or two and would advise the same.

[ed_vh]

Great, thanks chaps I will give XP a go. My only annoyance is I will shell out £70 for XP, then if my mac isn't up to the job I chuck XP in the bin and I have wasted £60. I am totally happy to pay for software, just wish there was a way to get a time limited demo of XP to try it on without breakin the law!

Oh well..

[robgt]

Try this:

Cheers,
Rob

[Biggles]

Here's the deal......Unless u have a pc with at least a 2.8 dual core cpu, 1.5 gigs ram (not the sd stuff either) and a 256 meg pcie gpu then don't bother with vista to run a sim on.

To get the best out of a quality sim then a dedicated gpu is a requirement.

[Disc]

Hum...

Mac Mini will handle XP it will boill down the fact your GFX card maybe the weak point.

I am looking at a Mac book Pro but no cash spare for one

[ed_vh]

Thanks for that robgt. It looked perfect and I had a big smile on my face, but then found out that it is the 64 bit version that may not work on a mac with bootcamp? I may just give it a go tonight anyway!

Cheers

Ed

[Fixxxer]

Bit of useless info folks, xp service pack 3 is on its way towards the end of the year along with vista service pack 1.

[bluesy]

Vista is great, has its flaws ofcourse, but so do XP, i run Vista with huge succes, actually better than xp, but then again, its not a small machine :-D

In your case, i would choose XP, dont worry about pro edition, it doenst have anything you need

Dennis

[Biggles]

well here's another bit of useless info then.......Vistas replacement will be hitting the shelves in approximately 19 months.

[robgt]

Vistas replacement will be hitting the shelves in approximately 19 months

LOL
This is Microsoft we're talking about

ROFL
Cheers,
Rob

[Biggles]

sorry I meant microsoft months

[Disc]

LOL
This is Microsoft we're talking about

ROFL
Cheers,
Rob

yea shouldnt that read 19 years ?