Who needs Vista??

[allies]

Vista works fine for me 🙂

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212


Vista was a huge memory hog and used 80% of my resources IDLE.

You know that's by design, right? Whereas XP tried to keep as much resources free as possible, Vista tries to utilize as much as possible.

QFT. Vista is much more responsive for me than XP ever was.

 

[TheStu]

I was running vista for a little while (MSDN FTW) but downgraded back to XP for a variety of reasons. I also was not pleased with the sluggishness of it. No, I do not have top of the line graphics, and I could still run aero glass well, and Flip3D (The silliest "feature" in an OS in quite some time, I can't believe Microsoft facelifted Alt-Tab and then passed it off as this great reason to upgrade "Look, it flips! in 3D!") but neither of those really Wowed me. I liked the live preview of my programs in teh taskbar, and IE7 is definitely a step in the right direction (Firefox was particularly slow on Vista).

The main reasons that I switched back to XP to though were;
-Software Incompatibility
-No Boot Camp support from Apple(meaning no two finger scrolling or right clicking, no brightness controls etc)
-Limited Parallels support (it is nice being able to run my Boot Camp partition as a Virtual Machine)
-The flash was not worth the hassle
-Not enough had improved

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: allies

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
Vista was a huge memory hog and used 80% of my resources IDLE.

You know that's by design, right? Whereas XP tried to keep as much resources free as possible, Vista tries to utilize as much as possible.

QFT. Vista is much more responsive for me than XP ever was.

Yeah, I don't understand why I'd want my ram to be free. I bought 2GB of ram, make good use of it. The key question is does Vista actually manage it WELL? That's a serious question, I'm not poking fun at Vista as I haven't had a chance to play with it myself.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: jpeyton
Aero has little overhead. If it was sluggish, that's because your GPU wasn't up to snuff.

Vista uses 800MB of RAM at idle with nothing running; so you are correct it's using 80% of your resources if you're only running 1GB of RAM.

I installed it on a laptop at work with 1gb of RAM and it ran kinda slow at first, but after a week of using it, it started to fly. It also uses much less memory now than it did when I first installed. I've been running it for over a month now and it runs pretty well. It allocates your memory more liberally when you have lots of extra, so don't think that by using 800mb to boot that it really needs that much. It will release some of that if necessary.

Yep. I am running 2gigs of ram in my system, and vista idles around 850-900mb of used RAM. When I fire up a game like Oblivion, play for a while, then exit, it stays at around 450mb of ram, then works it's way back up.

I could not be happier with Vista - so far.

 

[AdamK47]

Despite popular belief an operating system is not just the UI alone.