Windows Vista Business Edition

[SoundTheSurrender]

I have it sitting next to me right now, I got it from my OMIS department. I am thinking about installing it but I'm still kind of creeped by it though. I saw it on a school mates computer and it was using about 500-600 megs of ram at boot.

 

[loup garou]

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[SoundTheSurrender]

Originally posted by: loup garou
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no life post whore?

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
I have it sitting next to me right now, I got it from my OMIS department. I am thinking about installing it but I'm still kind of creeped by it though. I saw it on a school mates computer and it was using about 500-600 megs of ram at boot.

Thats why most recommend 2gb memory. Its the new windows, it looks pretty and loads a bunch of pointless crap(or so it seems) so therefor more memory is going to be needed.

 

[aimforsilence]

just turn the "areo" glass UI and you'll free up loads of memory

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Sniper82

Originally posted by: SoundTheSurrender
I have it sitting next to me right now, I got it from my OMIS department. I am thinking about installing it but I'm still kind of creeped by it though. I saw it on a school mates computer and it was using about 500-600 megs of ram at boot.

Thats why most recommend 2gb memory. Its the new windows, it looks pretty and loads a bunch of pointless crap(or so it seems) so therefor more memory is going to be needed.

Go run a barebones Linux distro fanboi. :disgust: Vista brings a lot of new features to the table that are really useful. Besides, what system doesn't have 1GB of memory nowadays? Honestly I think it's resources well used.

 

[stash]

I was reading of the PC mags in the library the other day and they did performance testing between XP and Vista on several machines covering a broad performance spectrum. One of their findings was that there did not seem to be a significant increase in performance for day-to-day tasks when going from 1GB of RAM to 2GB.