Another reason why Vista's Memory usage fails

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:24 am

Sava700 wrote:Yeah I got searched when I came in today..and will prob get stopped when I leave with the secret service running around... I can even see the sniper from my window!

At least you have a window.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri May 16, 2008 11:27 am

CableDude wrote:At least you have a window.

lol well i have to walk out into the hall to look out of it so I feel your pain!

Noevo · Post by **Noevo** » Fri May 16, 2008 12:17 pm

I've always been of the opinion that someone who deploys OS's and PC's doesn't necesarrily have an understading of how they work. They just know what they're supposed to do. Take a line out of the instruction sheet and

Just sayin'

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Fri May 16, 2008 2:57 pm

IMHO, if anything, Windows 7 is going to use MORE RAM than Vista does. Why? Because it's cheaply available, easy to upgrade, and easy to scale with. They could easily implement a system (and have, called Super Fetch) that uses your available memory, however much or little it may be, to increase overall system speed and responsiveness. Why they change a good thing makes no sense to me so to expect otherwise is not very smart.

PS: OS X does it the same way, and AFAIK (before customizations) so does Linux. It was always a beef of mine, the way XP handled memory (or rather, didn't handle memory).

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Fri May 16, 2008 3:54 pm

move thread?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri May 16, 2008 4:13 pm

Randy wrote:move thread?

Just grab another beer!

min sys specs for Win7...quad core, 8 gigs, 10,000 rpm hard drive....should be the fairly average specs 1 step back from bleeding edge by the time it's out.

SeedOfChaos · Post by **SeedOfChaos** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:52 am

Actually, it's quite easy to see Vista's real memory usage. When I boot up, the performance monitor shows that it's using 43% of my 2 gigs. However, when I open up memory hungry apps (such as 2 WoW clients at the same time) and close them, memory usage has dropped to 23%. So it's actually using less than 512 mb of ram. In these days, with two gigs of decent ram available for around €30, I don't think that should be much of an issue, really.

In any case, I think it's worth it. There are so many details where you feel like "whoa, they actually thought something through!" when you discover them. For example, the system automatically defrags when you're not using your computer. And it even doesn't if its running on a laptop battery. Also, I love the way that Vista links everything. If something doesn't work due to a certain setting, you'll get a notification with a link that opens up the appropriate screen of the control panel to change it. To search for something on the PC, just hit the windows button and start typing - and it's lightning fast as well (you may want to set the indexing paths first for it to work properly).

9mmprincess · Post by **9mmprincess** » Sun May 18, 2008 6:40 am

I like my vista. *hides*