My primary machine is now running Vista 64-bit, my first experience with a non-32-bit Windows environment. Observations so far:
- 4GB of RAM makes Vista downright zippy.
- The 64-bit version of iTunes (I didn’t even know one existed) is a huge improvement over its little sister. Way, way better at handling large music libraries, iTunes64 has made me reconsider my boiling hatred for Apple’s music app.
- Mozilla doesn’t have a 64-bit version of Firefox, and Ye Olde Firefox 32 is a touch buggy when it comes to Jscript. Nothing that amounts to a deal-breaker, but some definite annoyances.
- Matching my results with iTunes, pretty much any data-intensive, memory-gobbling app that has a 64-bit version seems night-and-day faster.
- Had some problems installing the latest version of Logitech’s SetPoint 64, ended up using the preceding iteration for now.
- Quicktime in Firefox seems a little hosed… transport controls refuse to appear, although video plays just fine.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the setup. The inconveniences haven’t proven to be too bad, and I find the speed increases in native apps more than compensate for the occasional Firefox quirk.