Buy Windows 7 Professional
An important part of recording music (or doing anything else that takes considerable computing power such as graphic design or video editing) is having an OS that works smoothly without giving you any technical headaches. An OS that works with all of your various sound programs without any hiccups.
That's why the 10/22/09 release of Windows 7 Professional is so exciting (particularly for those who currently have the pain in the ass that is known as Vista.) It works. It really does. I know this from personal experience because I've been a beta tester for it. But I'm not the only one - if you look around the web you'll find that many people have had great success with it.
I became a beta tester for Win 7 Pro precisely because of all of the problems I was running into with Vista. I couldn't figure out a way to deal with them (I won't list all the problems I was having as that would take me all day.) So I decided to try out Win7 to see if it was really all it was cracked up to be (I had heard a lot of great things about it on recording forums.)
Sure enough, all of my problems went away. And just as importantly, no new problems were introduced. So yes, I can give my own 100% recommendation to buy Windows 7 Professional.
Buy Windows 7 Pro
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(upgrade from XP & Vista)
March 10th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
You preach the truth on this one! I’m loving Win 7. Vista was awful.