The problem is one of the major issues with Vista is performance...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this won’t bring any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs aren’t about performance increases; they’re about reliability and stability.
I’ve seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service pack, NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I don’t remember regarding any of these service packs is installing it onto a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs don’t really work that way. Sure, you’ll feel specific improvements as a result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your operating system refreshed by loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system can’t run an OS, what it needs is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Will Vista SP1 and how this won’t bring any relief to those who find Vista a bit slow or sluggish? Not really, but then again service packs aren’t about performance increases; they’re about reliability and stability.
I’ve seen a lot of service packs in my time. Windows 95 and ME both got one service pack, NT 4.0 saw six, Windows 2000 had four and XP has so far seen two. But what I don’t remember regarding any of these service packs is installing it onto a system and then seeing any significant boost in performance. Service packs don’t really work that way. Sure, you’ll feel specific improvements as a result of some of the tweaks and fixes contained in the service pack, and you might feel the benefit of having your operating system refreshed by loading the service pack onto it, but a service pack should not be looked upon as a performance upgrade. If your system can’t run an OS, what it needs is upgrading or replacing, not the application of a service pack.
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Oh really? So explain "Designed for Windows Vista" systems running like cr*p then...
Oh really? So explain "Designed for Windows Vista" systems running like cr*p then...
Simple: Microsoft lies a lot about the system requirements for their OS. I've only known that since Windows 95 came out. Were have you been?
Cool.
Problems like applications and device drivers. Noone needs those..
I'd rather use Windows 95 than Ubuntu.... I'd say they rate the same in terms of stuff missing from XP or Vista.
Ubuntu is dreadful.
Also I dont like using the command line all the time. Ubuntu insisted I use the command line to install things like the nvidia video drivers.
Yeah, switch to Ubuntu so I can play games? Yeah, that'll happen!
If people would stop running it on antique hardware, or buying systems with 512MB or 1GB of ram with Vista pre-loaded this would be fine.
You guys DO realize, 2 GB of ram is like $50 nowadays.
And that means the difference in most of these systems from, slow hard-drive thrashing POS to fast and responsive.
And don't start with the crap about "Vista uses a lot of ram for no reason".
Using RAM is a good thing. Why would you want a Ferrari and just disable 8 of the 12 cylinders. That makes no sense.
Let the OS allocate and prefetch data into the ram so it isn't being wasted, and then everything responds quicker.
And I say Bollocks
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