Re: st: choosing Vista versus XP for Stata MP/SE on a 64-bit machine

[James Muller <james.s.muller@gmail.com>]

Ah, to be clear, this is a general thread, nothing specific for me :) 
Personally, I'm a Unix person, when the choice is available, though it 
usually isn't except for my home system.

Note this point is specific to 32-bit operating systems. See 
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html. With a 64-bit OS 
this stops being an issue, unless you're working with more than 16777216 
terrabytes of RAM...

I guess the thing I'm hoping this thread gets at is:

   -  Is Vista better than XP for Stata 64-bit MP/SE, and why/why not?

Cheers

James





Tiago V. Pereira wrote:

> James,
>
> I am not an expert in computers, but do know enough to solve my problems
> in terms of research. If you have medium-size data work, as you have
> mentioned, and do not want to use unix-based operating systems, Vista is
> by far the best choice over XP.
>
> Recently I run a number of large-scale data analysis from genetic studies
> with Stata, and only using Vista I could perform the tasks, since 2-3 GBs
> of ram were needed. Under XP I think that the maximum of memory loaded by
> Stata is around 940 MB.
>
> Therefore, if you have to choose between XP and Vista, my advice is to
> consider having Vista in your PCs.
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Tiago
>
>
>
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