Text 47574, 50 rader
Skriven 2008-07-27 13:18:28 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 47572 av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Vista like ME has received lots of bad press
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August Abolins -> Alan Zisman wrote:
 AA> Alan Zisman -> August Abolins wrote:
 AZ>> Were they (the 2 Vista Home models) home brew? Up to date drivers?
 AA> What
 AZ>> about 3rd-party startup programs?

 AA> They were new pcs.  Nothing but what the manufacturer included.  One
 AA> was an Acer.  The other was a Dell.  I am not sure what crapware they
 AA> featured.  But both probably had something along those lines.


 AZ>> I recently had two review loan systems-- both were ultralights, both
 AZ>> with low-powered, low-speed CPUs, (only) 1 GB of RAM, both running
 AA> Vista
 AZ>> which surprised me given their specs... I was quite surprised at how
 AZ>> well Vista performed on these low-powered small portable systems.

 AZ>> I was especially taken with the HP 2133 Mini-Note-- partly for its low
 AZ>> (under $800) cost:

 AA> But you *do* say, "Even with the 1.6 GHz processor, the Mini-Note is
 AA> *no speed demon*, especially running Vista; XP might offer better
 AA> performance with this configuration".

 AA> ;-)

XP on its own loads less stuff than Vista on its own, just as Win2000 on its
own loads less than XP...

If drivers permitted, Win2000 on a new system might be a real speed demon...
that doesn't necessarily make it a good choice.

I remember (around 1999/2000) loading DOS 6.2 + Windows 3.1 + a Win95/98-like
shell (Calmira?) onto a Thinkpad model that was limited to 8 MB of RAM... it
booted in nothing flat, and felt like a speed-demon. That didn't necessarily
make it a good computing choice.

Anyway, I'm not doubting that XP is a usable operating system-- merely noting
that Vista is neither as bad as is often made out, or necessarily slow. OEMs
are often crippling it, however, with tons of pre-loaded crapware and out of
date drivers-- adding to its poor reputation.

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