Some testing by the exo.performance.network research staff shows that SP1 provides no measurable relief to users saddled with sub-par performance under Vista.
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Rather at odds with this type of survey:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5118924882.html
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I know someone that installed 3GB of RAM on the same Asus mobo that I have (I still only have 1GB) and he says that he notices no difference.
I gave up with Vista and went to Ubuntu, my macbook pro ran vista reasonably well but I had to kill that partition when I upgraded to Leopard.
I help a lot of people with both XP and Vista so I'll probably at least install Vista for testing.... the funny thing is that it seems to run slightly better in the machine with 1GB on vmware in ubuntu, go figure.
I'm not trying to bash Vista but that's partially my real world experience with the OS.
RE[2]: i'd like to see them repeat the tests
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I don't know about you, but 2gigs seems very excessive when it comes to simply getting an operating system up and running along with running some general purpose applications. Maybe I'm getting old and senile in my old age, but 2gigs is overly excessive just to run a computer.
I don't want to turn this into a 'Windows vs. the rest of the universe' - but I'm here, running Leopard on a MacBook. GMA 950 graphics card, share graphics - I've tested this using 1gig and 2gigs. In the Windows world, this would be considered 'low end specs' and yet, under Leopard it works wonderfully.
Microsoft really do need to go back to the drawing board and admit that demanding an end user who just wants to write letters, to install 2gigs to get acceptable performance is completely unacceptable. This end user isn't simulating nuclear explosions or doing climatic analysis, all they want to do is use their computer; when is Microsoft, in all their infinite wisdom going to allow the end user do that without needing a super-computer class machine?
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I don't know about you, but 2gigs seems very excessive when it comes to simply getting an operating system up and running along with running some general purpose applications. Maybe I'm getting old and senile in my old age, but 2gigs is overly excessive just to run a computer.
I am running Vista on AMD X2 2.2HGz with 2GB RAM. Visual Studio 2005 (2008 soon), SQL Server 2005, Firefox, IE, Outlook, Paint.NET and some other small utilities are running all the time. From time to time I'll open Word, Excel or some other app (WinAMP, etc). No problems.
Don't believe everything you read.
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with at least 2gb of ram or more and then see are there noticable improvements. 1gb and vista is like XP with 128mb ram, ie: it's not enough ram at all.
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