512mb is not enough
512mb of RAM is not enough for Windows Vista...any flavor. Vista has been out almost three months now, and I have setup almost a dozen Vista machines. Thankfully, they are rolling out slowly. All the machines I setup, until today, came with 1 GB (1024mb) or 2GB of RAM. And although not blazing, the computer's ran at an acceptable speed.
I just finished spending nearly 2.5 hours setting up a laptop with Vista Basic and only 512mb of RAM. It was painful. Normally, I can clean all unwanted and trial software (crapware) from a new computer, install and update AVG Antivirus, optimize the startup and Internet settings, shut off unnecessary special effects, setup email and test both email and the Internet all in under 1.5 hours. This little laptop required extraordinary wait times to get anything installed or uninstalled. Very frustrating.
The moral of this story follows what I have been saying all along...if you do need to get a new computer, and Windows Vista is the option you choose, it absolutely has to have a minimum of 1 GB (1024 megabyres) of RAM and preferably 2 GB or more. Otherwise, you will be sorely disappointed in the lack of speed in your "new" system.
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2gig vs more RAM.....
I recently went from the original 1g to 2g on my Acer laptop (it came with VHP) and things immediately got better... My question is how much better would 3 or 4 gigs be, and given the very much higher price of 2gig sticks, is it a good bang for the buck to go higher than 2 gigs?
Also, What is the configuration in the newest computers - mainly desktops - offering 3gigs of RAM right off the shelf? 3x1 or 2 +1 or what? When you can find them, 2gig sticks seem to be way more expensive than 1gig... and computers don't seem to have 3 or 4 RAM slots anymore.
ps: I wish laptops offering 1gig came with a 1 gig stick and an open slot to add, INSTEAD of the usual 2x512 setup, requiring one to throw out the 2 512 sticks when adding the new 1gig sticks during an upgrade.
pps: I really enjoy your show... I can't listen live as the current live time doesn't work for me... I wish you were live on weekends, like in the past.
MS is losing me, Vista is the last straw
The only reason to purchase any computer with the new (NOT IMPROVED) Vista, IMHO, is to get a computer cheap as 'incentive' to 'upgrade.' ROFLMAO. Yeah Right! ... But to then proceed to clean the disk of windows Vista and install something else. Either: Older windows OS. Mac or some flavor of Linux. Ubuntu is a good flavor.
The only reason i will retain a computer with older version of windows, is so my kids and I can continue playing our favorite games. That PC will not be connected to the web. A separate machine with a completely different OS will be our new main PC in the very near future.I E sucks too. Anything arbitrary, or that trys to be the only show in town I am against.
Windows is going to lose most of their loyal customers, I believe. They got too haughty thinking they are the only game in town.A day approacheth when MS will be an anachronism. And they have only themselves to blame. MS has been going downhill. ME was bad enough. This is even worse.
MS has broke the proverbial camels back.
May i suggest a new addition to riding shotgun? How about Linux and Mac tips, tricks and basics? IMHO most people will be moving to alternative systems. I am asking, PRETTY PLEASE? ;-)
I will use Vista when hell freezes over.
Thanks for all the great tips!
We hear you
You will begin to see more Linux and Mac stuff integrated into our site as time marches on...we try to publish what is relevant and practical in technology.
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