Soliciting hardware recommendations

[Dov Isaacs]

FrameMaker certainly does run on Vista 64-bit and runs exceptionally well!
I ran FrameMaker 8 and now FrameMaker 9 in that environment without any problem
whatsoever.

What is true is that FrameMaker is a 32-bit application. Vista 64-bit runs
32-bit applications without a problem in 32-bit mode. What you do gain running
a program like FrameMaker under Vista 64-bit is the ability of support much
larger amounts of real memory (I run with 8 gigabytes) and thus run the risk
of less paging activity to kill performance when running multiple applications
concurrently! Also, I have found Vista 64-bit to be rock solid, running for
weeks on end without reboots; my only reboots being necessary for the monthly
"Patch Tuesday" Microsoft OS updates.

	- Dov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
> Reng, Dr. Winfried
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:28 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Soliciting hardware recommendations
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > If you get an Intel Core 2 Duo (or Core 2 Quad) system, running at
> > 2.6GHz or higher, with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and 7200rpm drives
> > (RAID 0 might
> > be a bit of overkill but easy enough to do), Windows Vista Business
> > 64-bit, and something like an nVidia 9600GT card or better, you will
> > have *more* than enough power to run FrameMaker with excellent
> > performance. This should cost under $1000 or so ... depending on the
> > other options you want on it.
> 
> Of course you can continue to use a Mac system.
> Only a correction regarding Vista 64 bit. As far
> as I know FrameMaker does not run on 64 bit Vista.
> That was posted here several times.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Winfried