Worth upgrading to Vista yet?

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: bsobel

The one thing that...bothers(?) me is the memory usage.
It uses absolutely absurd amounts of memory on a fresh boot, problem being, I'm not in any way qualified to profile memory usage under Windows, so I don't really know how much is disk cache, RSS, etc etc.Haven't run into memory issues so far though, so for now I just don't care.

Just to be clear, on low memory systems Vista will basically use all of your memory leaving only a very small part free. This is part of the caching system, is by design, and will release that memory for more important uses (e.g. your game needs it) as required.

(Btw, I define low memory as 4g or less....)

Well, that's what I meant by not being qualified
Gimme a *NIX box and I can tell what's disk cache, etc etc, on a Windows box I'm far more confused

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: bsobel

The one thing that...bothers(?) me is the memory usage.
It uses absolutely absurd amounts of memory on a fresh boot, problem being, I'm not in any way qualified to profile memory usage under Windows, so I don't really know how much is disk cache, RSS, etc etc.Haven't run into memory issues so far though, so for now I just don't care.

Just to be clear, on low memory systems Vista will basically use all of your memory leaving only a very small part free. This is part of the caching system, is by design, and will release that memory for more important uses (e.g. your game needs it) as required.

(Btw, I define low memory as 4g or less....)

Well, that's what I meant by not being qualified
Gimme a *NIX box and I can tell what's disk cache, etc etc, on a Windows box I'm far more confused

No problem, my comment was more for others who might see the comment and take it at face value...

Cheers,
Bill

 

[engineereeyore]

I got Vista Home Premium and I can't really say I'm sold on it yet. It takes 15G's of space to install and it doesn't seem to provide as much customization as previous version. For instance, there are several programs I just don't need that are included (like Movie maker and several others I can't remember) and I still can't figure out how to tell Vista to uninstall them. In older versions you could do that in the Add/Remove Programs. From what I've found so far, Vista doesn't have that.

I also got the x64 version. The majority of the programs I have and need are supported today, but there still seems to be much more support for the 32-bit version, so you might want to consider that.

The graphics are better and it does seem much less of a memory hog now than RC1 was. I haven't done a lot of gaming on it though, so I can't give you advice from that perspective.

Overall, it's nice but I don't see any strong "need" to upgrade. I only got it because I built a new machine and it was only $110, so I figured I'd give it a try.

 

[KoolDrew]

I have not really had any problems at all with Vista. I say go for it. :thumbsup:

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: engineereeyore
I got Vista Home Premium and I can't really say I'm sold on it yet. It takes 15G's of space to install and it doesn't seem to provide as much customization as previous version. For instance, there are several programs I just don't need that are included (like Movie maker and several others I can't remember) and I still can't figure out how to tell Vista to uninstall them. In older versions you could do that in the Add/Remove Programs. From what I've found so far, Vista doesn't have that.

Programs and Features in the Control Panel. There should be a link on the left in the side bar in the Programs and Features window for changing Windows Applications or whatever they call it. It'll open a small box thing where you select which windows apps you want.

 

[engineereeyore]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
Programs and Features in the Control Panel. There should be a link on the left in the side bar in the Programs and Features window for changing Windows Applications or whatever they call it. It'll open a small box thing where you select which windows apps you want.

That was the first place I looked, but I didn't see anything. Guess I'll have to look again. Thanks!

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: engineereeyore
I got Vista Home Premium and I can't really say I'm sold on it yet. It takes 15G's of space to install and it doesn't seem to provide as much customization as previous version. For instance, there are several programs I just don't need that are included (like Movie maker and several others I can't remember) and I still can't figure out how to tell Vista to uninstall them. In older versions you could do that in the Add/Remove Programs. From what I've found so far, Vista doesn't have that.

Programs and Features in the Control Panel. There should be a link on the left in the side bar in the Programs and Features window for changing Windows Applications or whatever they call it. It'll open a small box thing where you select which windows apps you want.

The Windows customizatons available there don't include all items such as those the OP listed (Movie Maker for example)