Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Vista Runs Smooth Only on 2G Memory
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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.
> `----
>
> http://www.itechnote.com/2006/10/27/vista-runs-smooth-only-o
> n-2g-memory/
>
> Geez. If only the folks who use SUSE heard this...
>
> Linux can run gracefully with 128MB of RAM. I have 256MB at
> home. <SNIP>
So, Vista bogs down at 1 GB RAM, recommended is 2 GB for
sweet operation, which reminds me. I vaguely remember this
argument:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/tree/b
rowse_frm/thread/fb72e4f6a30d411a/8ab7a24da4ce70d5?rnum=11&a
mp;hl=en&q=vista+funkenbusch+%22high+plains%22+microsoft
+requirements&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.advocacy%2F
browse_frm%2Fthread%2Ffb72e4f6a30d411a%2F0519d7b5d0eb4cf5%3F
lnk%3Dst%26q%3Dvista+funkenbusch+%22high+plains%22+microsoft
+requirements%26rnum%3D1%26hl%3Den%26
or
http://tinyurl.com/y6hw53
Subject: Internet Explorer 7 is Spyware
Post No. 11
| From: Erik Funkenbusch
| Date: Sun, Sep 3 2006 3:58 pm
|
| >>> Vista will run on an 850 MHz Pentium with 512 MB
| >>> memory. However, those are considered minimal
| >>> requirements. I see the hardware inflationary cycle
| >>> continuing.
| >>
| >> That's for all features. If you're willing to do
| >> without the 3D desktop, then it will run in
| >> significantly less.
| >
| > That is not what the Microsoft website stated that you
| > conveniently snipped:
|
| It's talking about all features. I promise you, Vista runs
| just fine in 256MB and a celeron 500 (I'm using one for a
| test machine, I know).
Of course it will, it is a binary condition.
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