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Jdurg:

Thanks Taz.  That was incredibly helpful.  One other question I have about Vista is how much of a PITA is it to have to "re-activate" it every 60 days?  I don't plan on having this system hooked up to the internet, so having to call MS and re-activate it sounds incredibly annoying.  I guess I could go and have the system plugged into a network jack, but that means some re-wiring in my house.  Plus I'd have to install a virus-scanning software and firewall into the system to keep ass-holes out of it.  That's something I'm hoping MS figures out a way to fix because basically if your system is not one that is connected to the internet yer screwed with this OS.

For the system specs, I currently have a 3.0 GHz P4 system as my home computer.  Where I work they give us a laptop which, although it's kind of crappy specwise, still is good for surfing the web and researching things.  Next year I plan on getting my own personal laptop so I don't have to worry about 'what' I'm "researching" or doing.  ;) ;D  These days I rarely turn on my home computer.  I only use it when I need to do some art or video work which it is more than capable of doing.  (Though I need to re-install the OS on it since it's been running for a good 5 years now and has gotten kind of bloated with garbage.  A format followed by a clean install ought to get it back to like-new status again.  It's just that I have to dig around and burn to DVDs all the stuff that I've installed that I still want to keep and all my personal files.  That will take a while).

The system I plan on putting into the cabinet will be a fairly bare bones system.  I'm going to use the ArcadeVGA2 card (which hopefully will have 64 bit Vista drivers by then), a simple sound card, a simple network card, 4 GB of RAM, probably a 160 GB HDD with one partition for the OS and the rest for the emulators, or a 40 GB HDD for the OS and a separate 160 GB drive for the emulators.  It all depends on what's most cost effective at the time.  I also plan on getting a good motherboard, power supply, and CPU to try and get the most I can out of the system.  By the time I go for the purchase, the 45nm CPUs will be out which should hopefully be incredibly powerful.  That's still a long ways away though so I have plenty of time.   

Jack Burton:

If I am not mistaken I believe Microsoft has decided to remove part of the anti-piracy features of Vista in SP1.   This may mean removing the reactivation every 60 days thing.  But I'm not sure.  You should look it up.

Jdurg:


--- Quote from: megaultrasuper on December 24, 2007, 07:22:50 pm ---If I am not mistaken I believe Microsoft has decided to remove part of the anti-piracy features of Vista in SP1.   This may mean removing the reactivation every 60 days thing.  But I'm not sure.  You should look it up.

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Will do.  Again, I don't plan on building the computer until my cabinet is completely built and ready to go, so I have a while to wait before I start that part of the build.  I just figured I'd ask now and get some opinion before it was too late.   ;D

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