Re: OT: Vista

LX-i wrote:
Judson McClendon wrote:
I haven't used Vista yet. My son just bought a new high performance
Dell computer with Vista. He says it seems really slow and sluggish.
Is that a common experience with Vista?

Initially, yes. My work computer is pretty fast now, but when I was setting it up, it was sluggish. Now, the only time I get the UAC prompt is when I start up Visual J# (Visual Studio wants to run in Administrator mode).

Yes, talking to myself here...

RAM is the key to making Vista hum. My son's Vista machine has 512MB - and, while I've been able to make it a little more responsive, sluggish is it's MO. My wife's Vista machine has 1GB - on it, the processes and extra things are what makes the difference. When she's doing photo editing, it takes its time, but otherwise, it's responsive enough. It's a dual 64-bit machine, and I would think it should be more responsive. However, it's still faster than her previous one. My work computer has 2GB RAM, and it works fine - runs Aero and all the fancy eye candy without batting an eyelash. It has a dual 32-bit processor.

In the point of my son's machine - even if it's a brand new machine, it may be underpowered in the RAM department. Also, separate video RAM makes a big difference, especially when dealing with the eye candy. If the processor has to do the regular work *and* do all the display work, it's going to be slower than it would if something else handled the display.

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