I am no IT expert but know enough to keep all my gear running without outside help (thus far). I use ultimate 64bit on my PC because I choose to run a lot of ram and 32 bit vista on my laptop because it is more old program friendly (ie starry night Ver 5.0). Both platforms have proven to be stable and reliable for the past 18 months and I am not sure what all of the fuss is about, I certainly think it is better then XP in any flavour and all of my astrogear works... I used a flavour of linux (red hat???) years ago and the experience ended any future association with this product (try manually installing a network card for example, better off slamming your head in a door I reckon, bit like trying to add ram to an old NEC 286 using their bios disk

). I am a science person, the RHS of my brain is dominant so I guess thats why I don't like Macs . They are just all wrong.
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