What OS Did U Run On your Ferrari 4000 Series?

When it was bought it came with Home. After the format it runs on Pro

i miss the options:
"dual boot windows xp pro x32 / x64"
"dual boot windows / linux"

not really. I've stripped it down a lot though. I even removed Norton Antivirus security center

Also my Pro cd came slipstreamed with SP2 so it doesn't give me much choice on wether I want to install it or not. But I've never had any slowdowns or other issues with SP2 so it doesn't really bother me.

Didn't we have a similar poll about a month ago?

MIne Came with home but reformated the drive as one partition and put Retail Pro on it runs great. I wanted to try X64 but I heard it was really buggy and unstable. I will just wait for Vista. Also you left out Vista and Mac OSX on your poll and yes you can run OSX on a X86 Machine.

You have a version of Windows that is NOT buggy and IS stable????

Windows XP Pro seems ok if you know what your doing. And I was commenting on X64 Which is very unstable right now from what I hear never used it personaly but have friens that have and they so don't bother and wiat for vista.

i've used x64 on my PC and on the ferrari ... it's stable and less buggy than x32, as it was released ...

the only issue is, that some hardware-producers don't offer adapted drivers ...

I also heard that alot of apps don't work well on X64. Is X64 more faster than x32? And is it less pron to viruses like i read€?

Well unless you try it, I wouldn't make a judgement. I use x64 and it works awesome. The only problem I have is not being able to find printer drivers. Other than that I find it more stable and less buggy than x32

I am not really passing judgement I was just stating that I was told not to use it by friends that did they all said hold out tell Vista. I see Acer offers all the Ferrari Drivers for it so that is good. Is it less virus pron as I was also told? And does it run any faster on same hardware? Also what about apps do must things work?

I wouldn't say it runs faster becuase you'd be hard pressed to really demonstrate a performance difference between x64 and a 32bit version of XP.

I like it and it does feel less "buggy"... if that's the term you want to use.

What I have found is that most computer "bugs" are from the users doing or changing things they shouldn't have. Doesn't matter if it's Windows xx or any flavor of unix.

There are plenty of programs that don't like x64, but there are plenty that do. In the short time I've had with x64, I've noticed that when programs do crash, they are far less likely to take the OS down with them.

As far as viruses go, it is still infectible. I think the only way you could change that would be to elliminate the WoW64 sub-system. But that in and of itself would make the OS virtually un-usable due to lack of native 64bit programs.
The advantage x64 does have over viruses and the like is if you use the 64bit version of IE, all of the crap that can damage your system through ActiveX get's snuffed out before it can even try.
At the same time, this will also put a cramp in your web-browsing experiance as a whole. For instance, you still need to use the 32bit version of IE to go and use the Windows Update web site.

There is and always will be trade-offs, even when people start moving to Vista, you will still sacrifice somethings you have gotten used to, but will (at-least eventually) gain them back, if not in a better or different way.

From what you said X64 doe snot sound like a good Idea I need high level compatablity heench the reason I did not move to Apple when looking for a new notebook. I guess waiting for Vista is the best idea.

Everyone has different needs, and the amount of compatibility you need can only be decided by you.

Personally, the only real thing that has been a neusince for me has been the printer driver issue. But emulation tends to open up a few doors for that problem.
Other than that I've been able to work around most everything else.