ram usage

[jayclark]

Clean install of Vista RC2. Nothing installed except nvidia drivers and vista running with all its eye candy 1 IE windows open and playing wmp11 and I'm using 408 MB. Was worried with all I read about how vista would basicly be useless if you didn't have a top end system. On my Athlon Xp 2500 oced to 2GHz with 1 gig of ram and nvidia 5600 FX 128MB. It runs pretty snappy. Not as fast as Xp but not far behind. 2 gigs of ram would make me a little bit happier. But I went from 512 to 1 gig for Xp. So why not expect the same for Vista? Overall I like vista. Except how it seems to hold my hand in everything I do. Why must there be multiple pop ups asking me if I'm sure I want to do something? 1 dialog is enough in my book. Not 2 or 3. Overall vista gets a 8/10 but so does Xp. Guess I'm hard to please Not sure when I'll buy vista. Guessing I'll grab the home premium upgrade for 159. I'll go kicking and screaming just as I did from 98 to Xp.

[PC Solutions]

Newer does not mean better.
Particularly with versions of Windows.
Never buy it until Service Pack 1 has released.
Which will be a year or so.

The system requirements are steep!
Not everybody can afford a new computer just to run the latest and alledged greatest version of Windows when whatever you are currently using works perfectly fine.

[bistro]

Overall I like vista. Except how it seems to hold my hand in everything I do. Why must there be multiple pop ups asking me if I'm sure I want to do something? 1 dialog is enough in my book. Not 2 or 3.

Some regular PC users may actually feel comfortable knowing that Vista's User Account Control is watching their backs, but power users have already been complaining about it and turned it off.....it can be very bothersome. Kind of like those Head On commercials....

[lgbpop]

That pop-up window that says "this process requires your approval to continue" doesn't fill me with confidence. If someone besides me was to try to change my computer and encountered that popup, would they think "Oh my, I'd better click 'no' because I'm not the owner?" It makes as much sense as that question at the airports: "Was anything put into your luggage without your knowledge?"

[gghartman]

i agree that one needs to wait till the first service pack comes out. without a doubt.

my problem because i am a dell reseller is that most likely dell will be selling vista as soon as possible which means my customers will have problems. hope dell doesnt discontinue xp for a long time on new machines.

[Tuttle]

That pop-up window that says "this process requires your approval to continue" doesn't fill me with confidence. If someone besides me was to try to change my computer and encountered that popup, would they think "Oh my, I'd better click 'no' because I'm not the owner?" It makes as much sense as that question at the airports: "Was anything put into your luggage without your knowledge?"

Someone besides you shouldn't be running as a local administrator anyway.