While he makes some good points (about content "protection" and encryption), he needs a tinfoil hat and to place the blame where it belongs - the US congress and the xxAA groups who mandate this nonsense or else companies cannot carry their "content". Most of what he complains of is regarding signed drivers (which, unlike his contention, I feel is GOOD for the industry as vendors are less able to let crappy drivers out into the wild, and are forced to fix them quickly when they do) and the behaviors of WGA/SPP. Again, some good points, but mostly just tinfoil hat.

If your 64bit ready, then get 64bit.

I would get Ultimate if I was you.

The 32bit version is great too so I dunno.

If your gonna buy a mustang, always get the V8.

I havent seen any DRM crap as of 2 years running Vista........

Edited September 21, 200718 yr by kartel

Ultimate lets you run Virtual Machines while Home premium does not.

Go with the retail version of Ultimate if you can't decide which platform to choose.

It's expensive, but if you think about it.

2 OEM 32 and 64 is $400

1 retail with both 32 and 64bit DVD is still $400

And as for this 4GB limitation on a 32bit system.

Some system cannnot detect up to 4Gb is because of chipset limitations.

e.g. Intel 945 supports up to 4GB, but if you install 4 1GB rams then the

bios will allocated the ram thus leaving you with only 3.2GB no matter which OS

you use 32bit or 64bit.

Edited September 21, 200718 yr by 123321