"Canuck57" wrote in message
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Most of the bad press on Vista relates to performance. In motor terms
Vista us a 4 cyl that gets 2 mpg. You can put a lot of CPU/system to it
and it performs like a slug. While if you are just doing surfing or
email, you would never know the difference, try a large file transfer disk
to disk or network to/from a disk and compare to a Mac, Linux or even XP.
You will find Vista is slow like pig.



Maybe I just don't run any really memory extensive programs. I can only
compare a few that I consider to be memory extensive and so far Vista with
4GB of RAM seems to be a little faster and smoother running than my older XP
computer (with 3GB RAM) running the same thing. For example, running
flight simulator in Google Earth. I think that's fairly memory extensive.

The other thing is that the Vista computer boots up and shuts down a heck of
a lot faster than the XP computer. Both are HP laptops. Maybe the
difference is the CPU. The new computer is a dual core (or whatever they
call it), 64 bit processor. I think the XP is a single chip, 32 bit.

I don't know if a computer with Vista purchased recently is any different
than the early Vista releases. All I know is so far I am very happy with
it. In fact, I like it better than the XP which seems "clunky" by
comparison now.

I reserve the right to change my mind in the future. :-)

Eisboch