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4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot
jcatcw writes "David Short, an IBM consultant who works in the Global Services Division and has been beta testing Vista for two years, says users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance. With Vista's minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that's 'sub-XP,' he says. (Dell and others recommend 2GB.) One reason: SuperFetch, which fetches applications and data, and feeds them into RAM to make them accessible more quickly. More RAM means more caching."
4 GB for the OS alone? This is ridiculous, even by Microsoft standards!
Only an idiot or a clueless bastard would use this sorry excuse for software.
This will just be more fodder for the anti-Vista crowd... "Oh noes, 4gb ram? I can't POSSIBLY afford that! But I also can't POSSIBLY turn that service off. I'll never be able to use Vista! M$, I hate you!"
Really, the good thing about this is maybe it will spur an increase in RAM sizes. I'm sick of 1 gig sticks being the only affordable ones. I want 2 and 4 gig sticks to come down in price, maybe this will help.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
I don't care what anyone says, whether it's Microsoft, Apple, or the Linux community, there is absolutely no reason for an operating system in 2007 to require/suggest four (4) gigs of RAM. I fail to understand why software developers don't cut code bloat instead of just writing like everyone's system is a supercomputer.
I notice you didn't tell us the rest of the spec - It was a P3 400 and 1GB of RAM, wasn't it.
Not Meta-modding due to apathy.
In Soviet Russia hard disk caches YOU!
...laura, who wonders what old people in Korea do about such things
"If you've got XGB of RAM, you may as well *use* it to cache commonly used data etc. and speed up your system, rather than just have it sit there like a lemon. Please tell me how doing this "shows poor design"?"
Loading things into RAM isn't free. Yes, maybe you'd gain some speed when you run an app that's already in memory, but how much waste was there when you load up something that wasn't and pushes out the things it decided to pre-load?
Turn off aero...
On your brand new MicroSoft car, make sure you disable the air conditioning, the power steering, power brakes, cruise crontrol, radio, and power windows. Maybe then you will have enough power to make it out of the driveway.
That's retarded.
That's retarded.
So turn it off, dipshit. Christ, you people are fucking hopeless.
Heh. And Apple's "super slick" interface runs just fine on my three year old iBook (800Mhz G4, 640mb RAM) and I typically have >15 applications open at a time.
If you're happy with the awful performance of OSX on a G4, you'll be just as happy with Vista on a 3 year old PC.
this is vista...i think we mean more CRASHing
Where is this free beer everyone on Slashdot keeps talking about?