OSNews > Thread > "RE[3]: Don't believe the hype" by Phloptical

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 12:52 UTC

It's October 22 today. A completely random date in the grand scheme of things (we Dutch lost a big naval battle to the Ming dynasty on October 22 1633), but it also happens to be the release date of the newest version of Windows - Windows 7. Since Windows is still the most popular desktop operating system out there, this is pretty big news.

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RE[3]: Don't believe the hype

by Phloptical on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 22:23 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Don't believe the hype"

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2006-10-10

"With that said, I run 7 just fine on a EEE 1005HA-H(atom n280, 1.66Ghz, 1GB RAM), 7 is using about 50% as base after a boot.

I thought Win 7 was meant to be good for netbooks? My netbook came with 512mb of RAM, so basically with Windows 7 it would fill my RAM on bootup.

Vista reportedly used about 400mb on bootup, so things have gone backwards. And sorry to drag out the Linux comparisons again, but I came close to running out of RAM on Ubuntu 9.10 on my netbook - running Compiz, Update Manager, Software Center, Prism, Firefox and Opera (yeah, three web browsers and two package managers, don't judge me!).

So 512mb of RAM used just to display a pretty desktop... that's crazy resource use. "

A netbook with only 512MB of ram? Are you kidding? And you expect to run a modern OS on it?

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RE[4]: Don't believe the hype

by marafaka on Fri 23rd Oct 2009 09:39 in reply to "RE[3]: Don't believe the hype"

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2006-01-03

Obviously there are people who think that UI = OS.

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