windows 7 with premier pro cs5.5

Ben Totman

Ben Totman

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so ive searched and cant find the answers im looking for so ill just ask you guys for the short answer. as far as an editing rig goes, is there any reason to buy windows 7 professional or ultimate, or is premium just as capable of running a production rig? i will be going with 64bit no matter what version i end up choosing. im sure this could have gone in the general software section but it seems dead over there. thanks guys.
 
Home Premium limits you to 16 GB memory, and a lot of folks are running 24GB. So Professional is worth it for that. Ultimate would be be overkill.
 
Home Premium should be just fine. The vast majority of the software included in the other versions is feces and is easily replaceable by free, open source software which is better anyways. The only "limitation" of Home Premium is 16GB of RAM, which is plenty for all but the biggest video editing projects...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
 
Ben Totman said:
... ill just ask you guys for the short answer. as far as an editing rig goes, is there any reason to buy windows 7 professional or ultimate, or is premium just as capable of running a production rig? i will be going with 64bit no matter what version i end up choosing.
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the short answer:

- home premium should be good enough to most people
(Note: it is mainly the performance/speed of your hardware such as CPU, RAM, HD, graphics card... that determines the overall performance of your video editing system. Not Windows.)

- home premium is not good if you need to
1) use more than 16GB memory --> Professional/Ultimate needed,
2) run a dual-processor system --> pro/ultimate needed
3) have native support for multiple languages (one example: Russian, Greek, Japanese in addition to British English in a single system) -- > Ultimate needed

Notes:
- Windows XP Mode is not an important package. You can easily get something equivalent for free to run on Windows Home Premium.
- Native multi-language support is a big deal to everyone who uses 2+ languages, and a VERY big deal to those using 3 or 4+ languages.
 
Phil1076 said:
The vast majority of the software included in the other versions is feces and is easily replaceable by free, open source software which is better anyways. The only "limitation" of Home Premium is 16GB of RAM, which is plenty for all but the biggest video editing projects...
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Feces???
What you don't need is not necessarily f----.
 
henryqiu said:
Feces???
What you don't need is not necessarily f----.
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Generally, every utility released with windows is inferior in quality and usability to other, often freely available products out there. Windows backup, Windows CD burning, Windows drive encryption, Windows .ZIP handling, to name a few.......these products are simply there to make the customer believe they are getting a better value for their money but they are never updated or improved and are, for lack of a better term, feces.
 
thanks for all the input guys, i think ill go with professional since its not a huge price jump and it has less hardware limitations. for now ill be running 16gb of ram but if the price of ram keeps going down i wont hesitate to run 24gb or 32gb.
 
yeah my motherboard takes 4 slots of memory, 16gb should be plenty for what im doing, the maximum would be 32gb, now that i think about it i dont think 24gb is possible on this board, im sure its not recommended to use 2x4gb and 2x8gb sticks together.
 
No offense Ben , but my Internet machine has 4 slots too, but it'll only handle 8GB! Just sayin~
 
If you plan to set up any kind of networked storage or network system with more than one computer, or use VPN's Win 7 Pro is a better choice. If it is a solo machine doesn't matter so much.
 
Windows 7 pro can also join domains and has more controls under computer management in addition it has local security policy. which may be needed if this is a business machine. Personally I'd go for the pro version, but of course I get them free from MSDN lol
 
I seriously doubt you work in IT, I work in the information technology field (and also went to college for it, as well has having numerous CompTIA certifications), I don't know anyone in the IT field who would suggest, Home Premium over professional because the Utilities are useless, obviously you don't realize the limitations of home versions. granted the tools in professional may not be as powerful as some third party tools, but they are integrated in to windows making them easier to use as well as manage. and those utilities aren't the only difference in home and pro version, there are many administrative and security differences in the versions. also henryqiu is right when he says that any program run on windows still uses the windows kernel (more commonly called the NT kernel as most current gen versions (2000,xp vista, 7) are based off the NT Kernel). as the same is true with any other OS (weather it be mac, unix, linux...)
 
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