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Re: semi-OT: Operating Systems
it does? that'd be pretty impressive, since I can get < 2ms latency
with CoreAudio and decent samples. I still don't think vista is fine
though (and I have to fix it every day so I'd say i'm pretty good with
it).
glad to hear you are upgrading to xp :)
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Art Simon <simart@gmail.com> wrote:
> I probably sound like an apologist for Microsoft, but these days Vista
> is fine. I still prefer XP, but it's not worth the trouble of removing
> Vista, it works comparably to XP (provided drivers of course).
>
> The exciting thing in Vista for audio users is WaveRT audio drivers,
> which provide much better latency (around 2ms!) than anything on XP,
> MacOS or Linux. Unfortunately, they don't seem to exist for most
> hardware and software applications yet. If Ableton added WaveRT
> support, it would be very cool.
>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought that there was a way you could "downgrade" Vista to XP,
>built-in. But I don't know about this first-hand, just a rumor. If you
>make an XP partition, you'll have to find drivers for it - maybe the
>downgrade eliminates that issue.
>>>
>
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