Hi, I'm new here. I haven't even really used Corel DRAW yet.
We just ordered a laser engraver. Now the next step for me is to order a dedicated PC and Corel DRAW, which seems to be quite a standard software to design and format engravings. I'm actually training on the trial version these days.
My question is : should we get the 32-bits or 64-bits version of Windows 7 ? Is there any reason we should choose one over the other to optimize the use of Corel X5?
I believe most laser engraver drivers still run on 32-bits, so I'm leaning in that direction. I'd appreciate if someone more up to date could tell me the status of X5 in this respect.
Thanks!
And there is good reason to believe that the 64bit OS is more stable than the 32bit OS because every driver must be certified.
Mickey McFly said:My question is : should we get the 32-bits or 64-bits version of Windows 7
You need to be very specific about asking this question to the suport team of the Laser Device you will be using as laser engraving is driver specific. The 32 or 64 bit answer will be driven by the availablilty of the device driver.
David Milisock said:You need to be very specific about asking this question to the suport team of the Laser Device you will be using as laser engraving is driver specific. The 32 or 64 bit answer will be driven by the availablilty of the device driver.
in some cases, the O/S may be an issue also...
For example, if someone buys a commercial output device that only works under Win XP. Esp. one that is used.
Sometimes people focus on the 850.00 computer when the more important issue is the 10... 20... 30... thousand dollar output device that has no output driver for 64 bit anything... or Win 7 32.... or even Vista 32.
Hugh Johnson said: CorelDRAW X5 suite is still a 32 bit application.
Yes, and most of the application software for other devices works better on 32-bits than 64, and sometimes there's not a 64 bits of some drivers. There's no any advantadge to the use of 64 bits for CorelDRAW. and you will be sure that X5 will works fine under Windows 7 32-bits.
Ariel said:Yes, and most of the application software for other devices works better on 32-bits than 64, and sometimes there's not a 64 bits of some drivers. There's no any advantadge to the use of 64 bits for CorelDRAW. and you will be sure that X5 will works fine under Windows 7 32-bits.
I completely disagree! As will the others here using Win 7 64. You may as well say that a 25 metre pool should be used for the Olympics because the turns don't matter. I've NEVER had a better Windows or Corel experience than since I moved to Win 7 64. I'm using 64bit Ghostscript, Photoshop, Firefox, Fast Picture Viewer... it doesn't matter if the relationship between Corel and these other products is tight like with Ghostscript or non-material as with Photoshop. It just all works as if there is no seams between them. What you get is the ability to add more RAM > run more concurrent applications, fully use the features of the processor, have better cache of files etc.
I would say if your computer doesn't support Win 7 64 and can't take at least 8Gb of RAM throw it in the bin and get a new one.