__/ [ Sinister Midget ] on Saturday 16 December 2006 20:06 \__
> On 2006-12-16, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
>>
http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/2006/12/12/10-days-with-windows-vista-ultimate-edition/
>
>> Moving on to more advanced tasks I decided to upgrade the memory (and
>> save my sanity) to 2GB using two matched DDR2 SODIMMS. This
>> made a drastic improvement in overall performance and brought Vista
>> up to a very tolerable level of performance. Most applications loaded
>> just about instantly (Vista seems to learn what you like to use and
>> preloads it post-boot for you) and I found the new GUI to be
>> snappy and smooth. Once in a while I would run something which would
>> force the system to turn off all the eye candy but once the
>> application was closed Vista would switch everything back to the way
>> I had it.
>
> 2GB and it has to shut off the only thing new included with it?
>
> CRAP, with a capital SHIT!
Sorry to be so repetitive, but let's just leave the following 'legacy' in
this thread.
Testing Vista's different memory configurations
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| You simply cannot play games on Vista with 512MB o memory, at least not the
| games wen tested. You will sometimes get playable scores but even then the
| experience and the load time will be ridiculous.
|
| Anything more than 512MB will help you a lot, with 2x1GB being the best
| price performance buy.
|
| 4x1GB is the best choice for best raw performance. It is hard to prove it
| ^^^^^
| in every test, but if you have 2x1GB and you load as much in memory, the
| ^^^^^
| system will become endessly slow.
| ^^^^
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36148
Vista Runs Smooth Only on 2G Memory
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| However, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins suggested otherwise on Thursday, 26 Oct at
| a speech at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. "I think they tell you maybe 1
| gig of memory is OK. No, two gigs of memory would be great."
|
| This echoes with my own experience with Vista RC2. With only 1G of
| RAM, there are many disk activities indicating heavy disk swap, a
| symptom of lack of memory in the system.
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http://www.itechnote.com/2006/10/27/vista-runs-smooth-only-on-2g-memory/
Vista System Memory Concerns
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| Vista: Facing a Slow Adoption. In the beginning, early adopters and
| gamers who are looking to ready themselves for the DirectX 10 upgrade
| will be best suited for those ready to make an investment in the
| unknown.
|
| Considering how many software and game titles will likely need to
| be run in "compatibility mode" until patches are released across
| the board, I would suggest really looking at what Vista's advantages
| are before taking the plunge.
|
| No matter how much we may wish to see the path Vista is about to
| embark on, the fact remains that because of its hardware requirements,
| Vista adoption may turn out to be rather slow.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2395&Itemid=449
Microsoft Windows Is A Greedy Memory Hog, The Cure Is To Feed It RAM
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| For Windows 2000, XP, 512MB is the minimum and 1GB or more is recommended.
| For Windows 98 any flavor, 256MB is the minimum and 1GB is recommended. If
| you are an avid PC gamer or video editor, 1GB is the minimum
| recommendation. Other operating systems such as Linux or Mac are similar.
| Simply put: more is better.
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http://bytepowered.org/articles/Article/Microsoft-Windows-Is-A-Greedy-Memory-Hog--The-Cure-Is-To-Feed-It-RAM/539
http://tinyurl.com/yn9ztx
On Linux:
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| "I did install SuSE 7.3 on a Dyme 166 MHz machine with 32 MB installed and
| I used KDE 2.2 from July 2003 to December 2004 to write my documents,
| develop my compiler and browse the web."
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http://thebeez.vnunetblogs.com/the_beez_speaks/2006/10/the_unknown_sol.html
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