What is the difference between Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate?

I saw this choice on a configurator. The sub text in the selection said, for the Ultimate, that it offered both "home entertainment as well as buiness benefits".

Can I assume that home premium is the same as ultimate, but w/o the biz benes?

related question: what is the diff between vista home prem 32 bit and vista home prem 64bit?

 

Microsoft has a page dedicated for this

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/compare-editions/default.aspx

Basically Home premium + Buisness = Ultimate

 

Well, Windows Vista Home Premium x86 is 32 and Windows Vista Ultimate x64 is 64, so obviously Ultimate wins by 32. This 32 can then be spread out to do other work, so that helps as well.

 

I think you misunderstood beanbag337's question, all the Vista versions have both 32-bit and 64-bit. And no, 64-bit doesn't win by 32, not at this moment, because most apps are still native 32-bit. There are a lot of benchmark tests out there that showed little to no performance gain, even loss in some cases, with the apps we have today, including 64-bit apps. For an average user that doesn't need 4 GB or more RAM, there is really no point to go with 64-bit for now.

Benchmarks dated February 2008:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1354

Benchmarks dated April 2008:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2280808,00.asp

beanbag337, here is a good article to help you understand a bit more:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5709

 

I know.

Yes, it does. 64-32=32, so 64 bit has 32 more than 32 bit.


I hate it when someone ruins my sarcastic posts.

 

lol oops I thought you were being serious for a moment... :laugh:

 

Wait... 86 - 64 = 22, so x86 wins by 22!

 

I recommend Premium over Ultimate. I have Ultimate and I don't use any of the "special" features. I wish I would have saved some money and gotten Premium instead.
Tim