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| Thread ID: 77368 | 2007-03-07 05:06:00 | Windows Vista does need more resources... | pcuser42 (130) | PC World Chat |
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| 530908 | 2007-03-07 07:49:00 | Now running Vista Premium on a dual core Athlon64 dual core 3800+ with 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB HDD. Low end video (business PC) GF7500 LE with dual video outputs for my 2 x 19" LCD's. Office Pro + Visio Pro (2007) So far I have all 3 HP printers working plus my Palm Treo PDA phone. Not been an easy road though. One print sever will not work, nor will Palm Desktop interface or reliably, Eudora 7 (so sadly now using Outlook for email and diary). But overall the speed seems very good, even with Aero interface enabled. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 530909 | 2007-03-07 08:43:00 | I have all my applications already installed and all the updates of which their have been four of all less than 1mb and everything is running smoothly now how can i fill up that 51gb. I have a partition with over 50Gb of media including video, music and photo's. A storage partition with over 50Gb of Apps, Drivers etc A Partition for my games, over 50Gb LOL |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 530910 | 2007-03-07 08:44:00 | img3.freeimagehosting.net You'll need to magnify this, as it is a big (pixel-wise) image. If those are min figures, I dont know anyone who ran XP on 128 RAM, oh and is 1Gb now the min for Vista?....LOL |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 530911 | 2007-03-07 08:59:00 | I used to run XP Pro on a P2(350MHz) with 128MB ram as a media PC. It ran beautifully, but then again I didn't have any large apps on it, or any of the eye-candy. Just Winamp, a video player, and a few other odds and ends, and a hardware decoder card to take care of the video. [edit: Amarok ftw :D] |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 530912 | 2007-03-07 09:25:00 | Interesting though ah Bletch, if those were min requirements! They sell Vista with 512Mb RAM? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 530913 | 2007-03-07 10:23:00 | If you only have Vista Basic then 512MB is probably enough but with the price of RAM these days 1GB should be minimum for any new system. I've just setup Vista Home Premium on a C2D E6400 (2.1GHz) with 2GB RAM and a 7600GS card and Office 2007 SBE. It runs beautifully and I'm really starting to like the way Vista works. (Did I say that??!!) Networking this and 2 notebooks (running home basic) was the easiest network setup ever. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 530914 | 2007-03-07 19:01:00 | If those are min figures, I dont know anyone who ran XP on 128 RAM, oh and is 1Gb now the min for Vista?....LOL I ran it on my main PC for about a year... (P3 500 128MB) I would have had it on a P1 133 with 64MB BUT the PC decided it doesn't want to boot from CD anymore... (any CD) Heck, my videos folder is 105GB :rolleyes: and no... no porn :p Another 102GB for ISOs of games and what not :rolleyes: It all adds up VERY quickly |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 530915 | 2007-03-07 19:08:00 | Now running Vista Premium on a dual core Athlon64 dual core 3800+ with 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB HDD. Low end video (business PC) GF7500 LE with dual video outputs for my 2 x 19" LCD's. Office Pro + Visio Pro (2007) So far I have all 3 HP printers working plus my Palm Treo PDA phone. Not been an easy road though. One print sever will not work, nor will Palm Desktop interface or reliably, Eudora 7 (so sadly now using Outlook for email and diary). But overall the speed seems very good, even with Aero interface enabled. It's amazing what the extra RAM does to help speed Vista up. I've got a similar configuration, but with Intel Integrated graphics - and Aero etc. works (relatively) fast. 99% of the time, the OS is just as responsive as WinXP is running on this hardware. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 530916 | 2007-03-07 19:30:00 | It's amazing ... 99% of the time, the OS is just as responsive as WinXP is running on this hardware. Now that's progress.:thumbs: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 530917 | 2007-03-07 20:56:00 | You sound like my grandparents. They just got Vista on their new Dell laptop, have no idea that 512MB Ram isnt enough for it, and waiting 3-4 seconds each time for the start menu to appear is NOT how things are supposed to be. Sure, all they're going to use is email and the occasional little bit of word processing, so if they wait a few extra seconds for Word to open they wont mind, but its the principal that matters :p I thought you would have offered to load Linux for them by now :p |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
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