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"Liam" <news@celticbear.com> wrote in message 
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> Next month I'll be putting together a workstation for my wife for her
> graphic design and animation work.
> (Found a highly rated workstation video card in our price range even.)
> Now I'm wondering what OS is best: WinXP or Vista? Is Vista ready for
> use with applications like Lightwave, After Effects, etc?
> (We'd rather get her a Mac Pro, unfortunately the minimum cost for one
> with 8GB RAM and a workstation card is $6,000!)
> Thanks for any advice.
> (Oh, BTW, having 8GB of RAM and a 512MB Quadro workstation, what kind
> of CPU is recommended? Think we can get away with a single, moderate
> speed, quad-core CPU?)
> Thanks!
> Liam
>
The conventional wisdom around here is to stay with XP.

However, I am using a Vista machine with the latest updates and
it seems to be working fairly reliably with Lightwave and After Effects.
I use one or the other nearly every day.

It will drive you nuts every time you try to download or install anything.
It ask your permission at every turn just like in the apple ads, but
it is behaveing reasonably whilr running thos 2 applications.
It seems to run Streets and Trips OK too :-)

That is about as far as I have gotten though.

David