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A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053

Posted by timothy on from the look-away-look-away-look-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Even though the next generation Windows product is not due until late 2005 or even 2006, here is a look at what Microsoft has in store for it's future operating system. 'Without a vast amount of tweaking, this build is a resource hog. At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB!! Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.'"

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  1. Who cares about RAM usage by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 1, Troll

    Most systems now have 512MB, in two years they will probably have 1GiB or more. I've got 1GiB in mine right now.

  2. Slashdotted, so I'll have to speculate by Snork+Asaurus · · Score: 1, Troll
    At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB

    Of which 256 MB is related to DRM?

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  3. Obviously? by frovingslosh · · Score: 1, Troll
    Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.

    Bullshit.

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