Vista home premium and the JDK and asp.net runtimes

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Hi,


Hope you can help me with this query. I'm think of buying a new
laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium as the operating system (I was
using Windows XP).

Q1: Can I install the Java Development kit on top of this? Is it
stable?

Q2: Can I install the ASP.NET runtime environment on top of this also?
Is it stable?


I ask as I program in both C#.Net and Java. Hence I need the 2
runtimes on the box. In other words, is Vista Home Premium a suitable
OS for both these runtimes? Is there anythign I should be aware of?
Any user experiences?
I would appreciate any comments/suggestions/advice you would like to
make.

Thanks,
Al.
 
Hi,


Hope you can help me with this query. I'm think of buying a new
laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium as the operating system (I was
using Windows XP).

Q1: Can I install the Java Development kit on top of this? Is it
stable?
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YES. I use it on Vista 64 Home Premium.
I've been using JRE both 32/64 bit installed, JDK, alongside NetBeans.
No problems....
Q2: Can I install the ASP.NET runtime environment on top of this also?
Is it stable?
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The .NET framework comes standard with Vista.
 
YES.  I use it on Vista 64 Home Premium.
I've been using JRE both 32/64 bit installed, JDK, alongside NetBeans.
No problems....




The .NET framework comes standard with Vista.







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You sure, everyone is telling me that vista is unable and I should get
them to install XP. Any problems?

Colm
 
You sure, everyone is telling me that vista is unable and I should get
them to install XP. Any problems?

Colm
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They are living in the past.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
lists Vista and also the JRE is starting to list Windows 7.

I haven't heard of any issues other than with much earlier releases.

OS wise, I've found VISTA more stable than XP or 2000; though you need a
good machine to run VISTA.

James
 
They are living in the past.http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
lists Vista and also the JRE is starting to list Windows 7.

I haven't heard of any issues other than with much earlier releases.

OS wise, I've found VISTA more stable than XP or 2000; though you need a
good machine to run VISTA.

James
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James, tell me more. How much RAM/disk space/CPU chip, speed etc...
A mate of mine said that Vista takes up IG or RAM alon.e So he said
you need at least 3GB. Would you agree?
Anything you would like to offer?

Cheers,
a.
 
James, tell me more. How much RAM/disk space/CPU chip, speed etc...
A mate of mine said that Vista takes up IG or RAM alon.e So he said
you need at least 3GB. Would you agree?
Anything you would like to offer?

Cheers,
a.
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Yes.
My laptop I use VISTA 64 Home Premium and it has 4GB of memory; though
the laptop is suppose to support up to 8GB. Haven't been able to find
4GB memory though for the laptop... I guess they haven't developed the
technology quite yet.
Another system I use is a 32-bit machine. Quite OLD. It is running
VISTA with 1GB of memory. Stable, but SLOW mostly because it is only
using 1 of the two CPUs... and it is OLD.

Both have been very stable.

Laptop specs are here
HP Pavilion dv4-1147cl Notebook PC
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...6854&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

My other system is an OLD:
Pentium 3 system with DUAL processors running at 666MHz each and
currently has 1GB of memory.
Most off the shelf units at Walmart would probably smoke the system today.


James
 
You sure, everyone is telling me that vista is unable and I should get
them to install XP. Any problems?

Colm
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XP is faster on any given hardware, has better hardware support, has
more features, and is more stable.

If you are doing development and have a choice (i.e. drivers are
available for your system) go with XP.
 
XP is a joke, most modern systems dont even have drivers for XP. I know
my new ASUS W90 doesnt even have XP drivers for most of its hardware, so
please dont spread the lie that XP is faster on any given hardware, it
is obviousely not.
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Note that I mentioned "(if) drivers are available". FYI - it's a fact
that XP is faster than Vista, particularly in and I/O operations. If
you chose not to believe facts, that's your business.
 
James, tell me more. How much RAM/disk space/CPU chip, speed etc...
A mate of mine said that Vista takes up IG or RAM alon.e So he said
you need at least 3GB. Would you agree?
Anything you would like to offer?

Cheers,
a.
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That is true, Vista will thrash about with only 1GB. 2GB-3GB is best,
unless you want to spend more money.
 
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