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DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the betting-on-the-wrong-horse dept.

quixote9 writes "We've heard conflicting estimates of how widely adopted Vista has been. Now comes some hard data. DRAM makers ramped up to meet the huge expected demand for more memory needed by Vista. Except the demand hasn't materialized. Now they're suffering. Alternatively, maybe everyone's cleverly hacked their Ultimate Aero Glass Vista to fit on their old PCs."

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  1. Or maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    people are using Vista without Aero Glass?

    It /is/ possible my friends.

  2. Lower prices? by PixelSlut · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If the RAM manufacturers are building up stocks of RAM that nobody is buying then maybe they'll start pushing the prices down further to make it more attractive. Then those of us who are using Linux benefit again from Vista's lack of adoption. :)

  3. Maybe by HalAtWork · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe the people care more about doing work than how they look doing it? Eye candy is nice, but it's not necessary. It's not going to make or break a purchase in the way that productivity enhancements would, and even then, people make do with what they have. The more versions that get released of whatever software, the less incentive to upgrade as it gets closer to "it works", and less people will care about improving the software the further along it gets. Throw money in and then people have even more reservations!

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  4. It will come, don't worry. by mlts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not saying this is good or bad, but DRAM sales may lag now, but eventually people will be moving to Vista when it becomes the sole option on new machines.

    RAM getting cheaper is always a good thing, mainly because on 95% of most people's machines, the biggest performance bottleneck is RAM (or lack of) forcing apps to swap.

  5. Re:Par for the course by SparkEE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm not the type to defend windows, but.....

    I don't think it's fair to look at the RAM utilization of an idling box and declare that using x% is bad. What would be the point of the OS not using the RAM that's sitting there? If I were writing an OS and knew I had RAM to spare and was idle, perhaps I'd be pre-loading the most used applications into RAM for faster startup. I think a good OS would almost always be using the RAM available in some way. It saves nothing to let it sit there.

    OTOH, I have no idea if windows RAM utilization is due to the OS being smart of dumb. I simply don't like to see the idea of idle RAM usage propagate as a valid metric of an OS.

  6. Re:Par for the course by Charcharodon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Nothing wrong with a car analogy, it's just that you used the wrong one. Super Fetch is more like having magic gnomes that are constantly putting stuff in the trunk of your car that they think you might want to take with you, but they'll instantly take it all back out if that turns out to not be the case.

    See car analogys can be good, but you have to have magic gnomes to make it work.