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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Member since:2005-07-06
I did that, too. Not much speedup.
Of course, my brand new laptop "only" has 2GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo. Application startup takes forever. Network transfers take forever. UAC prompts can make things unusable for over a minute, as the screen greys out, but the prompt itself never appears. Hell, local files unzip at around 5k/sec, for Christ's sake!
And that says nothing about the occasional crashes, the broad application incompatibility and the inconsistent use of Microsoft's own APIs by Microsoft themselves.
Don't believe me?
Try locating your Outlook .pst files on a network store and then using Vista's new Sync Center to make them persistent offline. Then watch Outlook explode.
Hell, even if you make no changes to the offline files, it still takes upwards of 5 minutes to sync... AND THE SERVER THEY'RE STORED ON IS 10 FEET AWAY ON A 100MBPS INTERNAL NETWORK!
Vista is a huge step backwards, in every sense, for operating systems. I thank the good lord that Friday was the last day I'd ever use it. Good riddance.
Member since:2007-07-31
Member since:2007-02-07
On My MBP I have Leopard and Vista Business (had to install Windows because of VC++ 2005 and school assignments, at least it was free).
Vista is running under Fusion with 1GB Ram and 1GB left goes to Leopard, of course no Aero under vmware.
Currently running Eclipse 3.3, VC++ 2005 Express, MSN Messenger, WMP and MS Powerpoint 2007 and Vista works perfectly fine. I don't understand (but do not deny) how it could run any worse outside of VM using much more resources, maybe Aero is the culprit.
Also, since I installed and configured the apps I wanted, I get very few UAC prompts.
OFFTOPIC NOTE: Spaces is SWEET, one thing that I was really missing from Linux, now I run Vista Full Screen on one space and can just switch (ctrl-arrow) between OSs. I even prefer it to Unity view of Fusion.
Edited 2007-11-20 03:06
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2005-07-07
I run a laptop, core duo, with 1 GB and it is quite fine.
I turn off that compositing stuff and visual styles mind you. Much nicer and better than XP (they removed some annoyances).