Eisboch wrote:

"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



The Vista SP1 upgrade did address a number of problems, including the
memory hog and speed issues with the orginal release of Vista.
According to PCTipsBox, SP1 increase the speed of Vista up to 86%.

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